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Weekly Dose: ayahuasca, a cautionary tale for tourists eager to try this shamanic brew

  • Written by: Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
imageAyahuasca, a plant-based brew that gives people a psychedelic experience, can be fatal, especially when mixed with other drugs.Jairo Galvis Henao/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Last night’s ABC Foreign Correspondent highlighted how Australians have been travelling to South America to seek the mystical experiences and healing properties of the plant brew...

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From disaster planning to conservation: mobile phones as a new tracking tool

  • Written by: Rob Harcourt, Professor of Marine Ecology, Macquarie University
imageMobile phones can be used as human tracking devices.Shutterstock/Maxx Studio

We can learn a lot about things by studying how they move through the world and interact with the environment.

In the past, for example, it was possible to study the mobility of people within the United States by monitoring things such as the movement of banknotes. Today we...

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Turnbull to gas industry: give the local market more supply

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday will pressure the gas industry to increase the supply available to the domestic market, as the government scrambles to get together a viable national energy policy.

The meeting between ministers and industry representatives comes a day after the South Australian government announced its own $550 million energy security...

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Banning unvaccinated kids from child care may have unforeseen consequences

  • Written by: C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
imageThere are better ways to boost vaccination rates than excluding kids from child care.from www.shutterstock.com

The federal government’s push for all state and territories to ban unvaccinated children from child care is a coercive measure that may disadvantage working parents and their children, and may have other unintended consequences.

Prime...

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  1. Does gluten prevent type 2 diabetes? Probably not
  2. Explainer: how the Australian dollar affects the results of companies
  3. Contested spaces: living next door to Alice (and Anh and Abdullah)
  4. Can we trust Big Tobacco to promote public health?
  5. How to cut Australia's $48 billion crime bill
  6. The off-topic Conversation #118
  7. Why the free market hasn't slashed power prices (and what to do about it)
  8. Extreme weather likely behind worst recorded mangrove dieback in northern Australia
  9. There's cause for celebration and concern in how Australians are giving to charity
  10. Infographic: a snapshot of charities and giving in Australia
  11. Parents shouldn't rely on My School data when choosing a school for their child
  12. The future of online advertising is big data and algorithms
  13. Seven things to keep in mind if you're going to March for Science
  14. Extinction or survival: how storytellers explore the ethics of colonising other planets
  15. Prisoners are excluded from the NDIS – here's why it matters
  16. Gas crisis? Or glut? Why Japan pays less for Australian LNG than Australians do
  17. Julie Bishop sends sharp message to China about democracy
  18. The Cherry Blossom Uprising: Monitory Democracy in Korea
  19. New skulls from China have scientists and the media in a muddle
  20. Women troll on dating apps just as often as men
  21. Contested spaces: 'virtuous drivers, malicious cyclists' mindset gets us nowhere
  22. Why we're wasting money on medical tests and how behavioural insights can help
  23. One Nation's preference deal in the WA election comes back to bite it
  24. Dr Google probably isn't the worst place to get your health advice
  25. A murky cauldron – modern witchcraft and the spell on Trump
  26. How Facebook and Google changed the advertising game
  27. The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability
  28. Turnbull's refusal to rule out preferencing Hanson raises questions about the 'real Malcolm'
  29. The Conversation's FactCheck granted accreditation by International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter
  30. Labor wins WA in a landslide as One Nation fails to land a blow
  31. Labor romps to landslide win in WA election
  32. Labor very likely to win WA election as One Nation slumps
  33. Our gas market hits the red zone , as predicted
  34. Vale Bill Leak: a satirist who played hard and took no prisoners
  35. Banning foreign political donations won't fix all that ails our system
  36. Companies should stick to the standards to avoid misleading investors
  37. New law will force some (but not all) organisations to reveal data breaches
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Western Australian election
  39. Goodbye glamour-puss and rugged hero: smokers lose brand identity with plain cigarette packaging
  40. So long, Climate Institute – too sensible for the current policy soap opera
  41. Contested spaces: living off the edge in a city mall where design fuels conflict
  42. Why is it still so hard for patients in need to get medicinal cannabis?
  43. Not 'all is forgiven' for asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka
  44. Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens
  45. Friday essay: video games, military culture and new narratives of war
  46. Five myths about the new cervical screening program that refuse to die
  47. Young workers expect their older colleagues to get out of the way
  48. Faking it: we should make manipulating algorithms for political purposes a crime
  49. Why 'green-black' alliances are less simple than they seem
  50. Grattan on Friday: One Nation blows WA campaign but will Hanson’s supporters care?

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