Marcella Cheng/The Conversation, CC BY-NC-NDThis is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Broken Eggs (1756).Wikimedia CommonsIn this series, we have invited philosophers to write about what they consider to be the greatest moral challenge of our time, and how we should address it.
It would be easy to conclude that there’s a deficit of morality in the world today. That if only people were more motivated to...
People who are unable to tan and who have moles on their skin are among those at heightened risk of developing melanoma.from shutterstock.comAustralians over the age of 40 can now calculate their risk of developing melanoma with a new online test. The risk predictor tool estimates a person’s melanoma risk over the next 3.5 years based on...
The world's biggest burn of illegal ivory.Daniel Stiles, Author providedThe tusks of more than ten thousand elephants went up in flames in Kenya on April 30, 2016 – the world’s largest ever ivory burn. It was meant as a powerful display against poaching and the illegal ivory trade.
But did those flames reach their intended target?
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