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Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they're vegetarian

  • Written by: Melody Ding, Senior Research Fellow of Public Health, University of Sydney
imageVegetarians might live longer, but only because they're more likely to be healthy in other ways, too. from www.shutterstock.com.au

In the past few years, you may have noticed more and more people around you turning away from meat. At dinner parties or family barbecues, on your social media feed or in the news, vegetarianism and its more austere...

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US embassy says refugee deal stands, but Trump casts new doubt in tweet

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

Update

Donald Trump has lashed out at Australia’s refugee deal with the US in an inflammatory tweet.

Earlier story:

The American embassy in Canberra has been forced to reaffirm that President Donald Trump’s undertaking to honour the refugee deal stands, after new doubt arose following an explosive story in the Washington Post.

Malcolm...

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Finding flow: learning Ruby on the job

  • Written by: Eleanor Kiefel Haggerty, Developer, The Conversation

I’d graduated from university with a degree I loved but the prospect of finding a stimulating job, let alone a career, was slim. I wasn’t sure where my life was leading. I was stuck.

This podcast on design thinking talks about two distinct challenges in everyday life. Dave Evans, who teaches Designing Your Life at Stanford University,...

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Why do we need a phonics test for six-year-olds?

  • Written by: Lorraine Hammond, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
imageChildren need to learn how to sound out words they haven't seen before.from www.shutterstock.com

Education Minister Simon Birmingham has announced that all Australian six-year-olds will soon be required to do a phonics test.

Researchers, parents and others concerned about our system’s failure to identify children who initially struggle to...

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  2. What's the benefit in making human-animal hybrids?
  3. Educating Australia – why our schools aren't improving
  4. Work hour limits need to change for better mental health and gender equality
  5. Hugh Mackay: the state of the nation starts in your street
  6. Fornication, fluids and faeces: the intimate life of the French court
  7. Dietary guidelines don't work. Here's how to fix them
  8. Why we can't spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can
  9. Turnbull's right: we need cheap, clean and reliable power – here's how
  10. Turnbull finally reveals his Liberal donation was $1.75 million
  11. Turnbull's energy policy vision: heavy on direction, light on action
  12. Sobering health stats in latest Productivity Commission report
  13. Turnbull believes in timely disclosure of donations – just not his
  14. When the drugs don’t work: how we can turn the tide of antimicrobial resistance
  15. Enough with the Doctor Who gender debate – it's time
  16. Interactive: a snapshot of political donations in Australia for 2015-16
  17. Why, only now, are we finding out who the biggest donors in an election year were?
  18. What has Turnbull agreed to do for Trump?
  19. What economists and tax experts think of the company tax cut
  20. What did Galaxy's poll tell us about freedom of speech and 18C? Not what the IPA said it did
  21. It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
  22. Listen up: a plan to help scientists get their research heard by decision-makers
  23. Dunstan, Christies and me: growing up in the ‘Athens of the South’
  24. Turnbull will acknowledge people's pain in speech on agenda
  25. The search for an economic solution for South Australia
  26. More than half the world's most important natural sites are under threat: it's time to protect them
  27. Shallow impact: when crackpot conspiracy theories are touted as news, we all lose
  28. Explainer: what is modern monetary theory?
  29. How should we talk about Trump?
  30. Explainer: what are executive orders? And what force do they have in US politics?
  31. Does more mental health treatment and less stigma produce better mental health?
  32. White House promises Trump ban won't affect Australians
  33. The off-topic Conversation #116
  34. Why the media need to tread carefully when reporting research findings
  35. How Australia can spread the benefits of our bulging infrastructure pipeline
  36. FactCheck: What are the facts on Australia's foreign aid spending?
  37. Methodology: finding the numbers on Australia's foreign aid spending over time
  38. Teased and bullied – the challenges of starting school with a stutter
  39. If GPs pass on cost from rebate freeze, poorer, sicker patients will be hardest hit
  40. Australia needs more than the New York Times' view of the world
  41. Celebrity charities just compete with all other charities – so why start one?
  42. The great Australian plays: A Cheery Soul gave us a supreme theatrical monster
  43. We can still keep global warming below 2℃ – but the hard work is about to start
  44. Shorten's three major economic priorities: 'jobs, jobs and jobs'
  45. China: globalisation’s unlikely champion
  46. Full response from Reverend Tim Costello
  47. Some rough sleepers are attracting tourists with their street art
  48. Turnbull news conference an exercise in avoidance and obfuscation
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