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Video explainer: Bowling strategies and decision-making in cricket

  • Written by: Emil Jeyaratnam, Multimedia Editor, The Conversation

This is the final in a three-part video series looking at decision-making in cricket. In this episode, Jonathan Connor explains how bowlers find their rhythm, how they adapt to conditions, and how they make good decisions.

Watch: Episode 1: How cricket captains make good decisions

Watch: Episode 2: Batting expertise and decision making in cricket...


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We all want the same things in a partner, but why?

  • Written by: Gery Karantzas, Associate professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University
imageMen and women rate warmth and trustworthiness as very important in their potential partner.Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash, CC BY

Whether it’s in reality TV or glossy magazines, sex appeal, fat bank accounts, kind eyes and cute smiles are often served up as the attributes that make for anyone’s dream partner. But these...

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Listen up! How to get your message across in just 60 seconds

  • Written by: Merryn McKinnon, Lecturer, Australian National University
imageYour minute is nearly up.Shutterstock/Mike Flippo

Do you have something important to say, but find it hard to get people’s attention?

Or have you tried to listen to someone who claims to have something interesting to impart, but they can’t explain it and the idea gets lost? (Or worse, you get bored and lose interest, even if...

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A riotous, often ribald exploration of feminism's unfinished business

  • Written by: Julie Shiels, Lecturer - School of Art, RMIT University
imageInstallation view of Kelly Doley's Things Learnt About Feminism #1–95 2014: a Day-Glo wall of wisdoms, homilies and histories. Collection: Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia Photograph: Robert Frith - Acorn Studios

What kind of feminist are you?

Unfinished Business is a riotous and often ribald...

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  2. Virtual reality has added a new dimension to theme park rides — so what's next for thrill-seekers?
  3. Why we shouldn't be too quick to blame migratory animals for global disease
  4. Explainer: the seasonal 'calendars' of Indigenous Australia
  5. Three reasons to get your stress levels in check in 2018
  6. Bias creeps into reference checks, so is it time to ditch them?
  7. From sleeping beauty to the frog prince – why we shouldn't ban fairytales
  8. Explainer: the gods behind the days of the week
  9. Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health – it’s up to us
  10. A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills
  11. How facing challenging situations can prepare your child for school
  12. 13 'ye olde' phrases that would be far better in the workplace
  13. New Year’s resolutions for better mental health
  14. The five most anticipated digital games of 2018
  15. #MeTourism: the hidden costs of selfie tourism
  16. Keating's Working Nation plan for jobs was hijacked by bureaucracy: cabinet papers 1994-95
  17. Cabinet papers 1994-95: Keating's climate policy grapples sound eerily familiar
  18. Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Risk
  19. Cabinet papers 1994-95: The Keating government begins to craft its legacy
  20. Cabinet papers 1994-95: How the republic was doomed without a directly elected president
  21. Cabinet papers 1994-95: How a security agreement allayed Australian anxiety over Indonesia
  22. Stay on the couch or go for a run? There's an app that can calculate the bigger risk
  23. Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2018
  24. Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?
  25. China's economic power is actually a lot smaller than you think
  26. 2017: the year in extreme weather
  27. Funding reform for schools and higher education dominated much of the conversation in 2017
  28. AI is learning from our encounters with nature - and that's a concern
  29. Romper Stomper reboot is a compelling investigation into Australia's extremist politics
  30. Your party, our home: the challenges of growing up in a tourist destination
  31. Is mixing drinks actually bad?
  32. You might be Christmassed out, but these Australian birds are festive all year
  33. Why do people with East Asian heritage get flushed after drinking alcohol?
  34. How good draft choices can make or break AFL teams
  35. Before we colonise Mars, let's look to our problems on Earth
  36. How our arts critics saw 2017
  37. Citizenship scandals, same-sex marriage and foreign interference dominate the messy politics of 2017
  38. Don't let your pet accidentally get drunk this silly season (sorry Tiddles)
  39. Far from being in crisis, 2017 was a great year for Australian musical theatre
  40. That time when science came with me on a tropical holiday
  41. Supersized cities: residents band together to push back against speculative development pressures
  42. The key to a vibrant democracy may well lie in your workplace
  43. What data tells us about the best cricket players
  44. Why getting enough sleep should be on your list of New Year's resolutions
  45. How are we doing on early childhood education and care? Good, but there's more to do
  46. QUIZ: do you remember the big health stories of 2017?
  47. Video explainer: Batting expertise and decision-making in cricket
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