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Tweet streams: how social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health

  • Written by: Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
imageSocial media posts, such as this image uploaded to Flickr, can be repurposed for reef health monitoring.Sarah Ackerman/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram could be a rich source of free information for scientists tasked with monitoring the health of coral reefs and other environmental assets, our new...

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On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageDonald Trump's presidency is unlike any of its modern predecessors. Michael Reynolds/EPA

A week ago, the leaked transcript of the January telephone call between Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump revealed Turnbull had told the president: “You can count on me. I will be there again and again.”

Now, as the US-North Korea verbal war...

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Turnbull's North Korea intervention could be his own 'all the way with LBJ' moment

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageEPA/How Hwee Young

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dealt Australia into the argument over how to respond to North Korea’s brinkmanship over its nuclear weapons program.

Speaking on Melbourne radio on Friday morning Turnbull invoked the ANZUS Treaty, which obliges Australia and the US to come to each other’s defence in the event...

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Why kids knock over drinks and must be careful around cars

  • Written by: Olivia Carter, Associate professor, University of Melbourne
imageIllusions are fun to look at, but they also provide vision scientists with important insights into the way children experience the world. My children found their world changing colour during a recent visit to my lab.

It is a rare achievement to make it through dinner at our house without someone crying over spilt milk (or water, or any other...

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  1. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  2. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  3. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  4. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
  5. Powerful and ignored: the history of the electric drill in Australia
  6. Love of bookshops in a time of Amazon and populism
  7. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  8. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  9. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  10. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  11. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  12. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  13. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  14. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
  15. Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
  16. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
  17. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  18. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  19. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  20. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  21. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  22. The off-topic Conversation #132
  23. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  24. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  25. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  26. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  27. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  28. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  29. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  30. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  31. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  32. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  33. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  34. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  35. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  36. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  37. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  38. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  39. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  40. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  41. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  42. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  43. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  44. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  45. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  46. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  47. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  48. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  49. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  50. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump

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