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Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer

  • Written by: Roger Bradbury, Professor, National Security College, Australian National University
imageSouth Korea’s subtly calibrated risk aversion in the face of outrageous North Korean aggression has kept the two countries from war.EPA/KCNA

The idea the world is sleepwalking to war, much like Europe did in the early years of the 20th century, deserves to be taken seriously. One of us (Chris Barrie) set the hares running recently when he...

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Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong

  • Written by: Matthew Hopcraft, Clinical Associate Professor, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne
imageAdding fluoride to tap water to prevent tooth decay is one of our greatest public health achievements. Yet, myths persist about whether it's safe and works.from www.shutterstock.com

Evidence gathered over 60 years about adding fluoride to drinking water has failed to convince some people this major public health initiative is not only safe but...

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Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics

  • Written by: Nick Bisley, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
imageReuters/KCNA

The first week of July is not normally one that brings great events in world politics. Around that time, the northern hemisphere normally shifts into summer holiday mode.

Recently, this has become less true. Coups in Egypt, Turkey, and a terror attack in France have bucked the trend. Asia’s early part of July 2017 has also...

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What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality

  • Written by: Katherine Gibson, Professor of Economic Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
imageSoft Landing recycles the materials of mattresses that otherwise get dumped in landfill.Alan Stanton/flickr, CC BY-SA

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne.

Cities have always been eco(nomic)cities but rarely eco(logical)cities. Today, growing inequality and environmental degradation...

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  1. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  2. What actually is a good city?
  3. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  4. How we change the organisms that infect us
  5. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  6. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  7. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  8. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  9. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  10. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  11. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  12. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  13. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  14. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  15. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  16. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  17. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  18. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  19. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  20. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  21. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  22. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  23. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  24. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  25. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  26. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  27. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  28. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  29. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  30. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  31. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  32. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  33. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  34. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction
  35. A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
  36. Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
  37. As an historic nuclear weapons treaty is reached, G20 leaders miss the mark on North Korea
  38. Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them
  39. Market-driven compaction is no way to build an ecocity
  40. Three reasons the government promotes home ownership for older Australians
  41. We know innovation is key – but there's little agreement on exactly what it is
  42. Without better regulation, the global market for breast milk will exploit mothers
  43. Campaigns urging us to 'care more' about food waste miss the point
  44. As the world embraces space, the 50 year old Outer Space Treaty needs adaptation
  45. Where Australia's great theatre artists trod the boards: 50 years of Melbourne's La Mama theatre
  46. The Gateway Bug: a documentary about the future of food
  47. When Trump met Putin, and how the Russian won the day
  48. The Great Barrier Reef isn't listed as 'in danger' – but it's still in big trouble
  49. Renewed commitment to multilateralism required to deal with forced human displacement
  50. The G20's new guidelines will help investors tackle climate change

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