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Six ways to improve meal times with your children

  • Written by: Carly Moores, Post-doctoral research assistant in childhood overweight, Flinders University
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Meal times with young children can be stressful, especially after a day at work or a day caring for them. And if they refuse to eat the nutritious dinner you’ve cooked, this can easily lead to frustration.

Here are six things you could do to make meal times a bit...

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Why touted public transport savings from competitive tendering are too high

  • Written by: John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The Business School, University of Sydney
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A new report from Infrastructure Australia, Improving Public Transport: Customer Focused Franchising, and its associated technical report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), will have state and federal treasurers salivating. The accompanying press release is clearly intended to set their fiscal juices flowing. It suggests that:

… subjecting...

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Only Heaven Knows brings 1940s queer Sydney roaring back to life

  • Written by: Leigh Boucher, Senior Lecturer - Modern History, Macquarie University
imageBen Hall and Tim Draxl in Only Heaven Knows Robert Catto

Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of homosexual desire, unexpected intimacies and gender transgressions in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1940s, has been revived in its thirtieth anniversary year at the Hayes Theatre in Elizabeth Bay....

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No more playing games: AlphaGo AI to tackle some real world challenges

  • Written by: Geoff Goodhill, Professor of Neuroscience and Mathematics, The University of Queensland

Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month, when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Kie Je by three games to zero.

AlphaGo is an AI program developed by DeepMind, part of Google’s parent company Alphabet. Last year it beat another leading player, Lee Se-dol, by four games to one, but...

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