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Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers

  • Written by: Andrew Lowe, Director of Food Innovation, University of Adelaide
imageBirdwatchers are keeping the location of the newly rediscovered night parrot a closely guarded secret.Adventure Australia, Author provided

Highly collectable species, especially those that are rare and threatened, can potentially be put at risk from poaching if information describing where they can be found is published. But rather than withholding...

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Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy

  • Written by: Virginia Kilborn, Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
imageEfforts praised to get more women in Australian astronomy, but more needs to be done.Flickr/Paean Ng, CC BY-NC-ND

The number of women at the most senior levels in the Australian astronomical community remains low despite many positive steps in supporting gender equity. Women make up only 17% of positions at full or associate professor level.

Astronom...

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Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'

  • Written by: Myles Russell Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Phd Candidate, University of Melbourne
imageDetail from Percy Leason, Thomas Foster, 1934, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 60.8 cm, State Library Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mrs Isabelle Leason, 1969 (H32094) © Max Leason

During the night of September 7 1936, the last remaining thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, popularly referred to by the name of “Benjamin” since his death, died in the...

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The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
imageKeep calm and get your stoic on many people today are heeding the advice

From Cynicism to Stoicism

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, to paraphrase Monty Python. We live in strange times. But few people could have expected today’s rise of a global movement of self-describing Stoics.

Stoicism was the ancient Greek and then Roman...

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  1. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  2. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  3. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  4. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  5. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  6. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
  7. The off-topic Conversation #128
  8. How people can best make the transition to cool future cities
  9. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
  10. Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian
  11. Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
  12. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
  13. How empathy can make or break a troll
  14. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  15. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  16. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  17. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  18. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  19. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  20. How many people can Australia feed?
  21. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  22. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  23. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  24. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  25. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  26. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  27. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  28. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  29. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  30. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  31. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  32. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  33. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  34. What actually is a good city?
  35. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  36. How we change the organisms that infect us
  37. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  38. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  39. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  40. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  41. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  42. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  43. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  44. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  45. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  46. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  47. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
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