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When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'

  • Written by: Marnee McKay, Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
imagePrimary school-aged boys and girls can play in mixed teams until they reach high school, our research suggests.Clappstar/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, according to our research, taking the sting out of the insult “you play like a girl”.

When we compared primary school...

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The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism

  • Written by: Eurydice Aroney, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Although sex workers around the world lobby for decriminalisation, sex work law remains controversial. This article is part of a series exploring sex work and regulatory reform.


In May 1984, Debbie Homburg, a member of the newly formed Australian Prostitutes Collective, told the ABC her organisation was calling on sex workers across Australia to...

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How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology

  • Written by: Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, Director of the UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
imageHow can you justify your knowledge? Epistemology has a few answers.Flickr/World's Direction

How do you know what the weather will be like tomorrow? How do you know how old the Universe is? How do you know if you are thinking rationally?

These and other questions of the “how do you know?” variety are the business of epistemology, the area...

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Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it

  • Written by: Andrew Reeson, Behavioural Economist, CSIRO
imageThose who got advice from the online calculator in the study showed a small, but statistically significant, increase in trust towards robo-advice.www.shutterstock.com

People are open to receiving financial advice from robots, our studies show, but there might be a way to go to in convincing people to trust them over a human.

We surveyed 138 people...

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  4. Turnbull to tell power companies: do better by customers
  5. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
  6. Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
  7. ABC News' long-form journalism pays off on Twitter
  8. Weekly Dose: methylprednisolone, a drug for treating inflammation but not rare kidney disease
  9. Diana revived the monarchy – and airing old tapes won't change a thing
  10. Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform
  11. To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
  12. The off-topic Conversation #131
  13. Human embryo CRISPR advances science but let's focus on ethics, not world firsts
  14. Australia’s city/country divide is not as wide as you may think
  15. Sex work and the law – it's complicated
  16. Guide to the classics: Homer's Iliad
  17. Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
  18. After the streaming 'gold rush' – a guide to China's video crackdown
  19. Fair winds and following seas: yes, a spider could migrate across an ocean
  20. Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive
  21. 'Tax returns for water': satellite-audited statements can save the Murray-Darling
  22. Solar is now the most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide
  23. Australia needs dozens more scientists to monitor climate properly, report says
  24. Entsch warns against 'ambush' meeting on marriage, amid speculation about postal ballot
  25. Lack of internet affordability may worsen Australia’s digital divide: new report
  26. Weekly Dose: anaesthetic and recreational drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
  27. UK crackdown on gender stereotypes in advertising shows up Australia's low bar
  28. Here's why it's so hard to say whether inequality is going up or down
  29. Bitcoin splits and Bitcoin Cash is created. Explaining why and what happens now
  30. More than 'slacktivism': we dismiss the power of politics online at our peril
  31. Home ownership falling, debts rising – it's looking grim for the under 40s
  32. Men still prefer mothers to stay at home: 12 charts on attitudes to work and family
  33. Australians want more children than they have, so are we in the midst of a demographic crisis?
  34. Pokies, sport and racing harm 41% of monthly gamblers: survey
  35. Curious Kids: What's going to happen to the Sun in the future? Will it explode?
  36. Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study
  37. NAPLAN is ten years old – so how is the nation faring?
  38. The Method gone bananas? How motion capture actors are embracing their inner ape
  39. 'Just do the weather': does it matter if TV weather presenters aren't experts?
  40. So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be
  41. Party turmoil over way ahead on same-sex marriage
  42. Trump's Obamacare repeal attempt fails in US Senate
  43. Like a TARDIS in your head, memory helps you travel through time
  44. Workers are actually feeling less insecure in their jobs
  45. Security gets $1.2b, community programs to counter violent extremism $40m – that's a foolish imbalance
  46. The good news and bad news about the rare birds of Papua New Guinea
  47. Bottleshops affect people's health, so our laws need to reflect that
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