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Our uniquely lopsided brain

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and Director, Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, UNSW
imageThe human brain is unique in many ways including the amount of asymmetry that exists between its left and right sides (Source: Massachusetts General Hospital and Draper Labs).Wikimedia Commons

We all know that the human brain is ridiculously large, but how many of us realise that it’s lopsided as well? It turns out that the cockeyed shape of...

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Australian Twitter is more diverse than you think

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
imageTired of seeing the same thing on Twitter?Shutterstock

What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?

These are the questions that guided a new,...

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Feeling worn out? You could have iron overload

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
imageNo, not that type of iron overload – haemochromatosis, when your body absorbs too much iron.from www.shutterstock.com

Feeling a bit tired and worn out? Vague symptoms like these are common in iron deficiency and anaemia. But before you reach for the iron supplements or chow down on steak, these symptoms are common in another condition related...

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All care and no responsibility: why Airtasker can't guarantee a minimum wage

  • Written by: Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, University of Technology Sydney

The agreement between Unions NSW and gig economy platform Airtasker doesn’t go far enough to ensure minimum wages or working conditions.

Airtasker isn’t setting a minimum wage or working conditions on its platform. Rather, it is “recommending” them to users. Airtasker’s business model makes it unlikely this will...

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  1. Full response from Airtasker CEO Tim Fung
  2. Police officer suicide: it's not just about workplace stress, but culture too
  3. Food as medicine: why do we need to eat so many vegetables and what does a serve actually look like?
  4. New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford 'gateway' suburbs
  5. Curious Kids: Why don’t cats wear shoes?
  6. Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
  7. A new literary portrait of Helen Garner leaves you wanting to know more
  8. Protecting young people's privacy as Facebook claims it can identify their anxieties
  9. Turnbull announces schools funding and a new Gonski review
  10. Chasing the audience: is it over and out for cricket on free to air TV?
  11. Charter schools and vouchers not a solution for Australian schooling
  12. WA's economic mismanagement is not a reason to review how the GST is carved up
  13. Higher education reform: small changes for now but big ones to come
  14. Government to build second Sydney airport
  15. How 3D food printers could improve mealtimes for people with swallowing disorders
  16. When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive
  17. Three charts on: crane-spotting, a way to tell which Australian cities are growing and where
  18. Google, Facebook fall into line on tax, but eBay remains defiant
  19. Affordable housing is not just about the purchase price
  20. Who goes to MONA? Peering behind the 'flannelette curtain'
  21. Change Agents: David Buchanan and Fr Paul Kelly on ending the gay panic defence
  22. Rather than capping tax revenue, the government should reform the system
  23. A short history of anaesthesia: from unspeakable agony to unlocking consciousness
  24. The hunt for the Superstars of STEM to engage more women in science
  25. The solar panel and battery revolution: how will your state measure up?
  26. The bark side: domestic dogs threaten endangered species worldwide
  27. 2017 higher education reform: cuts to universities, higher fees for students
  28. University students to pay more as government looks to $2.8 billion saving
  29. FactCheck Q A: do 80% of Australians and up to 70% of Catholics and Anglicans support euthanasia laws?
  30. Why Chinese investors find Australian real estate so alluring
  31. Politics podcast: Jane Halton on how to make a federal budget
  32. Men can help women deal with their PMS
  33. Action on problem gambling online is a good first step, but no silver bullet
  34. The off-topic Conversation #121
  35. Australian values are hardly unique when compared to other cultures
  36. Five ways an Australian housing bubble could burst
  37. Missing in action: the ABC and Australia’s screen culture
  38. Money given to GPs from ending the Medicare rebate freeze should target reform
  39. Your sons and your daughters: mental health in the age of overtime
  40. We should create cities for slowing down
  41. From bakery to wagashiya: a textbook case of 'moral education' in Japan
  42. Fighting the common fate of humans: to better life and beat death
  43. Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse
  44. Fruit juicers and hair brushes are now part of the Internet of (useless) Things
  45. GST carve-up to be examined by the Productivity Commission
  46. Queensland Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor as One Nation slumps
  47. Wittgenstein and the Dangers of Certainty
  48. Malcolm Turnbull leaves Julie Bishop in the hot seat in Abdel-Magied affair
  49. How Australia should react to the Trump tax cuts
  50. Government's oil and gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss

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