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Your guide to solving the next online viral maths problem

  • Written by: Craig Anderson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Statistics, University of Technology Sydney
imageYou need to think like a mathematician to solve those viral maths problems.Shutterstock/Dean Drobot

How many times have you seen a post online or part of your social media feed that says something like “This Math Problem Is Stumping the Whole Internet. Can You Solve It?” or “Apparently 9 out of 10 people get this wrong. Do you...

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Only a mother could love 'em: why cockroaches and termites are great parents

  • Written by: David Yeates, Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
imageGiant northern cockroaches are surprisingly caring parents.Urasimaru/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

To most people, cockroaches are abhorrent, disease-ridden pests, scuttling under the fridge when you go to the kitchen for a midnight snack. But those who know cockroaches well understand that they can be very caring creatures.

There are about 5,000...

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Fewer students are going to public secondary schools in Australia

  • Written by: Emma Rowe, Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University
imageIn Australia, around 41% of students go to private secondary schools. from shutterstock.com

You may have heard recently that public schools in Australia have experienced increased enrolments.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that public schools in Australia have increased their share of enrolments, “reversing a forty-year trend”.

A...

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Will the Greens let the teachers' union bully them over schools funding?

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageSarah Hanson-Young has come up against the pressure of the Australian Education Union in trying to rally the Greens to support the governemnt's school funding policy.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Some Liberals love to deride Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. In the past Immigration minister and attack dog Peter Dutton was particularly insulting when she was...

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  4. Weekly Quiz: how did Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey?
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  6. With the rise of subscription and online TV, we need to rethink local content rules
  7. Vital Signs: Australia is facing an interest rates dilemma
  8. As Trump ups the ante, executive powers should worry Australians too
  9. Surfing the 3D printing wave: the changing face of surfboard fin production
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Finkel feedback
  11. Turnbull government must find a way to rid Australia of foreign donations
  12. Minister to get unprecedented power if Australia's new citizenship bill is passed
  13. Why more schools need to teach bilingual education to Indigenous children
  14. Friday essay: the wonder of Joyce's Ulysses
  15. Philanthropy is funding serious journalism in the US, it could work for Australia too
  16. Goodbye to the Gatwick, and to so much of the old St Kilda
  17. The new space race: why we need a human mission to Mars
  18. Volcanoes under the ice: melting Antarctic ice could fight climate change
  19. The new data retention law seriously invades our privacy – and it's time we took action
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  24. Ten Network has a hard road back to viability
  25. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg, George Christensen and Mark Butler on the Finkel review
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  27. Two in five pregnant women don't receive care in the first trimester
  28. Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
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  30. The problems with asking banks to police financial abuse
  31. Explainer: what is public interest journalism?
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  38. Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School
  39. Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries
  40. Ten Network's problems are history repeating
  41. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  42. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  43. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  44. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
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