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The yoga paradox: how yoga can cause pain and treat it

  • Written by: Evangelos Pappas, Sr. Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
imageYoga moves like downward dog put strain on your hands, wrists, elbows and shoulders.from www.shutterstock.com

Yoga carries with it a higher than expected risk of a painful wrist, elbow and shoulder, possibly due to poses like downward dog, new research suggests.

But it’s not all bad news. The same study adds to growing evidence yoga can help...

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South Australia's bank levy might be legal, but it may also be politically unviable

  • Written by: Joe McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia

South Australia’s new bank levy, projected to earn A$370 million over four years, seems to be constitutionally valid but it remains hostage to political machinations.

While precise details are sparse, the Major Banks Levy will target those institutions liable for the Commonwealth bank levy (Commonwealth Bank, ANZ Bank, Westpac, National...

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Pirates, penguins, Wallace and Gromit ... the Aardman show delights

  • Written by: Peter Allen, Lecturer in Film and Television, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
imageWallace and Gromit were first introduced in the 1989 film A Grand Day OutAardman Animations

Wallace & Gromit and Friends: the Magic of Aardman, now showing at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne, is an astonishing exhibition 45 years in the making. Aardman, the British animation studio that gave the world some of the...

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What's the economic value of the Great Barrier Reef? It's priceless

  • Written by: Neil Perry, Research Lecturer, Western Sydney University

Deloitte Access Economics has valued the Great Barrier Reef at A$56 billion, with an economic contribution of A$6.4 billion per year. Yet this figure grossly underestimates the value of the reef, as it mainly focuses on tourism and the reef’s role as an Australian icon.

When you include aspects of the reef that the report excludes, such as...

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  3. Gold Rush Victoria was as wasteful as we are today
  4. Self-driving cars must learn trust and cooperation
  5. Being South Asian is as great a risk factor for stillbirth as smoking
  6. Send the market a price signal where affordable housing is most needed
  7. The winners and losers of Antarctica’s great thaw
  8. Abbott, on a mission to destroy, is stepping up his stalking of Turnbull
  9. Partial exclusion for Lee Rhiannon after marathon special Greens meeting
  10. Google's defence for breaking EU law? Our users wanted us to do it
  11. Born in China: a new type of Australian business
  12. Globally, floods seem to be decreasing even as extreme rainfall rises. Why?
  13. Census shows increase in children with disability, but even more are still uncounted
  14. Change Agents: Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi on reforming 'one-punch' laws
  15. What do we tell kids about the climate change future we created for them?
  16. Celebrating the feminist Holden
  17. Census 2016: what's changed for Indigenous Australians?
  18. It isn't easy being blue – the cost of colour in fairy wrens
  19. Our pets strengthen neighbourhood ties
  20. Creative country: 98% of Australians engage with the arts
  21. The world's tropical zone is expanding, and Australia should be worried
  22. Huge restored reef aims to bring South Australia's oysters back from the brink
  23. New research shows there is still a long way to go in providing equality in education
  24. Men are killed at a greater rate than women in Australia – what can we do to reduce their risk?
  25. China bans streaming video as it struggles to keep up with live content
  26. How parenting advice assumes you're white and middle class
  27. Curious Kids: My tooth fell out. Why is it so spiky on the bottom?
  28. Tony Abbott says he'll stay around – because he's needed
  29. Home ownership remains strong in Australia but it masks other problems: Census data
  30. Census 2016 puts on display the increasing diversity in Australians' relationships
  31. Census 2016 shows Australia's changing religious profile, with more 'nones' than Catholics
  32. The ATM celebrates 50 years but we're using it less
  33. Why retirement village contracts need to be regulated like insurance
  34. Explainer: what is tularemia and can I catch it from a possum?
  35. Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
  36. A map that fills a 500-million year gap in Earth's history
  37. Body mass and evolution: why the body mass index is a limited measure of public health
  38. Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
  39. The Conversation launches in Canada
  40. Pharmacists are trusted medical professionals, so they shouldn't sell remedies that lack evidence
  41. Tenants' calls for safe public housing fall on deaf ears
  42. Despite our growing taste for craft brews, smaller beer makers face a huge disadvantage
  43. Data visualisation isn't just for communication, it's also a research tool
  44. Contributions to sea-level rise have increased by half since 1993, largely because of Greenland's ice
  45. Roman gladiators were war prisoners and criminals, not sporting heroes
  46. Pyne's self-indulgence damages Turnbull because it reinforces what Liberal right wing malcontents believe
  47. Why I disagree with Nobel Laureates when it comes to career advice for scientists
  48. Rumours of the death of multinational tax avoidance are greatly exaggerated
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