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Make a noise or work with the system? New research reveals 4 ways to create real change for nature
Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Researchers mined the knowledge of ...
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The Treaty Principles Bill’s promise of ‘equal rights’ ignores the blind spots of our democracy
For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what’s fair – not just what’s equal.
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Paracetamol pack sizes and availability are changing. Here’s what you need to know
Ria Hopkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Long-anticipated changes to how Australians buy paracetamol are on their way in a bid to reduce harms.
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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.
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Thailand Invests in Trans Health
The country is also a global hub for gender-affirming surgery and transgender health care. Still, these developments obscure the severely limited legal means available to protect transgender people’s ...
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Friday essay: Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100
The other, more insistent part is thinking about this essay: where to start, what to say, how to sum up the extraordinary legacy of the book I’m re-reading, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, which this ...
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US: Don’t Send Migrants to the Black Hole of Guantánamo
On January 29, 2025, United States President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a 30,000-bed facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to detain migrants.President Trump’s statement that ...
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Central India’s indigenous forests are falling victim to bullets and bulldozers
The state of Chhattisgarh in India’s tribal heartland has been the epicentre of a violent conflict for more than 30 years. This struggle has pit a Maoist-inspired group called the Naxalites, who are ...
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Swimming in the sweet spot: how marine animals save energy on long journeys
Competitive swimmers know that swimming underwater causes less drag resistance than swimming at the surface. Splashing around making waves isn’t the most efficient way to swim. Any energy spent ...
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From chatbot to sexbot: What lawmakers can learn from South Korea’s AI hate-speech disaster
A Korean chatbot named Iruda was manipulated by users to spew hate speech, leading to a large fine for her makers — and providing a warning for lawmakers.
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Trump inviting influencers to White House press briefings is likely to usher in a new era of fake news
Donald Trump plans to augment the mainstream White House press corps with social media influencers and content creators. There is an insidious side to this strategy.
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Most of Britain’s peat bogs could stop forming new peat as the climate changes – new study
By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I ju ...