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Snap that prize up: croc research on gambling habits gets an Ig Nobel

  • Written by: Matthew Rockloff, Head, Population Research Laboratory, CQUniversity Australia
imageThe one-metre long relatives of this snappy croc at the Koorana Crocodile Farm, near Rockhampton, helped test the betting risks of potential gamblers.Flickr/Michael Gorey, CC BY-NC

Our research examining the effects of holding a live crocodile on slot-machine gambling has won one of this year’s infamous Ig Nobel prizes.

The award was one of...

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My favourite album: Pulp's Different Class

  • Written by: Jess Carniel, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
imageJarvis Cocker in the film clip for Common People. Screenshot from Youtube

The album is an artistic statement, a swag of songs greater than the sum of its parts. In this series, our authors nominate their favourites.


For many, the explosion of Britpop on the global music scene in the 1990s was a bright counterargument to the grunge sound emerging...

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Processing centres in North Africa are not the answer for EU refugees

  • Written by: Azadeh Dastyari, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron invited his counterparts from Libya, Niger, Chad, Italy, Germany and Spain to Paris to discuss ways of stopping the flow of irregular migrants and refugees through transit countries. The leaders explored the possibility of establishing processing facilities in North Africa to identify refugees and turn...

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  2. Ice mined on Mars could provide water for humans exploring space
  3. Countdown - just nostalgia, or still breaking new ground?
  4. An ABC News story shows how strange going viral can be
  5. Do ketogenic diets help you lose weight?
  6. Mission over: the final countdown to Cassini's fatal plunge into Saturn
  7. Friday essay: recognising the unsung heroes of Australia's AIDS crisis
  8. The year of living ineffectually: 2017 proves shaky for the centre-left
  9. After 30 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is gradually healing
  10. People-friendly furniture in public places matters more than ever in today's city
  11. Science or snake oil: is manuka honey really a 'superfood' for treating colds, allergies and infections?
  12. Indonesia challenges Australia's anti-dumping measures at the WTO
  13. Grattan on Friday: King Coal is wearing big boots in the Turnbull government
  14. The Lionel Murphy papers shed more light on a controversial life
  15. Australians pay more for education than the OECD average – but is it worth it?
  16. We can use AFL to boost school attendance and improve mental health in Indigenous communities
  17. We're on our way to making whistleblower protections more than theoretical
  18. Rebel Wilson's $4.5 million win a sobering reminder that defaming a celebrity can be costly
  19. Where the accountability problems started at CBA
  20. Gay-identifying AI tells us more about stereotypes than the origins of sexuality
  21. While the world frets over North Korea, what to do about Iran also causes headaches
  22. My favourite album: Yothu Yindi's Tribal Voice
  23. With iPhone X, Apple is hoping to augment reality for the everyman
  24. Media reform deals will reduce diversity and amount to little more than window dressing
  25. University cuts – the dire implications for the creative arts
  26. The off-topic Conversation #136
  27. Predicting disaster: better hurricane forecasts buy vital time for residents
  28. Votes for corporations and extra votes for property owners: why local council elections are undemocratic
  29. Power naps and meals don't always help shift workers make it through the night
  30. Decoding the music masterpieces: Shostakovich's Babi Yar
  31. North Korea tests not just a bomb but the global nuclear monitoring system
  32. How skills and personality traits contribute to the gender pay gap
  33. Government set to win Senate support for media deregulation
  34. More coal doesn’t equal more peak power
  35. So you bought the new iPhone? Here are your rights if it breaks
  36. The secrets of Titan: Cassini searched for the building blocks of life on Saturn's largest moon
  37. My favourite album: The Beastie Boys' Ill Communication
  38. Explainer: how does the sea 'disappear' when a hurricane passes by?
  39. Health Check: is margarine actually better for me than butter?
  40. A bloody decade of the iPhone
  41. Income inequality ticks down as the rich see their incomes fall: ABS
  42. Talking about suicide and self-harm in schools can save lives
  43. Is evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the result we're after
  44. Marriage vote: how advocacy ads exploit our emotions in divisive debates
  45. How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the whole planet's climate
  46. Sydney's Cloud Arch critics and our mean-spirited approach to public art
  47. Curious Kids: Why it is that the things close to the train windows zoom by really fast, but things further away seem to go by much slower?
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