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Review: Bugs on the Menu at the Environmental Film Festival

  • Written by Ary Hoffmann, Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne
imageCrunchy, and sustainableEntomophagy image from www.shutterstock.com

Bugs are on the menu in Canadian filmmaker Ian Toews’ documentary screening at the Environmental Film Festival Australia this month. The film promotes that the view that bugs can provide a more sustainable way of food (particularly protein) production for an expanding human...

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Weekly Dose: metformin, the diabetes drug developed from French lilac

  • Written by Merlin Thomas, Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
imageMetformin was originally developed from natural compounds found in the plant known as French lilac.Vlad Proklov/Flickr, CC BY

Metformin is the most widely used drug to treat type 2 diabetes globally. In Australia, approximately two-thirds of patients with type 2 diabetes are prescribed metformin, either alone or in combination with other pills, or...

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FactCheck: Is suicide one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia?

  • Written by David Ellwood, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
imageSuicide is uncommon during pregnancy -- it occurs more frequently when a pregnancy is over.Mikel Garcia Idiakez/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The Committee notes that … suicide has become one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. – The Obstetrics Clinical Committee, report to the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review, August 2016.

The...

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Politics podcast: Simon Birmingham on the new VET student loan scheme

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

A new vocational education and training student loan scheme will aim at putting a stop to rorting by dodgy private colleges. Education Minister Simon Birmingham tells Michelle Grattan the new scheme is being built from the ground up.

“First and foremost, [there will be] strong barriers to entry for the types of vocational education providers...

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  1. Lockerbie experience is no model for the effective prosecution of MH17 bombers
  2. Banks make millions in delaying interest rate cuts
  3. Business Briefing: Trusting business to take care of your data
  4. Trimming the excess: how cutting down on junk food could help save the environment
  5. Lessons from South Australia's blackout: we need to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change
  6. Philanthropic foundations cost taxpayers – and so should be made accountable
  7. US election: what impact do celebrity endorsements really have?
  8. Mellow yellow? The mood and cognitive effects of curcumin from turmeric
  9. Opening doors and minds: the Open House phenomenon
  10. New VET loan scheme to exclude shonky providers
  11. Bank inquiry won't take royal commission off the political agenda
  12. AFL and NRL grand final TV ratings show codes still rely on their traditional heartlands
  13. Big four bank chiefs face parliamentary committee: experts react
  14. The uncanny and Changwon Sculpture Biennale
  15. Has auto-translation software finally stopped being so useless?
  16. South Australian blackout: renewables aren't a threat to energy security, they're the future
  17. Inconsistency bedevils Australia's prosecution of war criminals
  18. What's the link between hay fever and asthma, and how are they treated?
  19. Australian corporate social responsibility reports are little better than window dressing
  20. Victoria needs a big-picture transport plan that isn't about winners v losers
  21. Simpler account switching would help keep our banks honest
  22. Governments and central banks should stop trying to stimulate the economy
  23. Women should be told about their breast density when they have a mammogram
  24. Marine parks and fishery management: what's the best way to protect fish?
  25. Why ‘green cities’ need to become a deeply lived experience
  26. Is protectionism a 'siren song' to the poor or to the wealthy?
  27. Why health implants should have open source code
  28. From Shakespeare in Hindi to tackling human trafficking: the best of OzAsia festival
  29. 'No jab, no pay' disadvantages migrant children
  30. Consumers don't understand smartphone contracts
  31. How to Think About 1.5 Degrees
  32. Health Check: what should breastfeeding women eat?
  33. The Conversation working with The ABC
  34. R D tax incentives need to be simple and underpin investor confidence
  35. Shrinking Mercury is all it's cracked up to be
  36. Yes, some Australian private schools are overfunded – here's why
  37. Art for innovation's sake? Lessons from our Canadian cousin
  38. Volatility, thy name is Trump
  39. 'We must keep the lights on': how a cyclone was used to attack renewables
  40. Wyatt Roy's trip to Iraq was nothing short of irresponsible
  41. How can Australia build on a century of struggle over Indigenous citizenship?
  42. 20 years on, what impact has the Nobel Prize for medicine had on our immune systems?
  43. The Nobel Prizes’ controversial push for popularity
  44. The story behind Australia's marine reserves, and how we should change them
  45. The superannuation myth: why it's a mistake to increase contributions to 12% of earnings
  46. Religion and the US election: does faith matter anymore?
  47. Cities in the sky: how do we decide where this urban journey is taking us?
  48. It's never been more important to keep an eye on space weather
  49. Trump, the media, and the populist politics of the pogrom
  50. The human clitoris is an object of beauty, pleasure and intrigue
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