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Would Marilyn Monroe's career (and life) have been different if she had acted on stage?

  • Written by: Margaret Hickey, Lecturer in Academic Communication, La Trobe University
imageMonroe never performed in a formal theatre production, despite many key people in her life encouraging her to do so.Siddhesh Mangela/Flickr

On their first evening together, four years before they married, Arthur Miller encouraged Marilyn Monroe to pursue a career on the stage. It was something she never forgot.

In all that has been written about...

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Australian climate politics in 2017: a guide for the perplexed

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
imageThe climate debate can give you a headache at the best of times. Confused person image from www.shutterstock.com

If you thought the climate debate has been ugly, you haven’t seen anything yet. In 2017 Australia will review its climate policies, and the process is not off to a good start.

To recap: with the release of the climate...

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Health Check: does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream?

  • Written by: Yossi Rathner, Lecturer in Human Physiology, Swinburne University of Technology
imageLittle does this woman know what happens to her brain when she licks the ice cream.from www.shutterstock.com

It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What’s going on?

Your brain isn’t literally...

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Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2017

  • Written by: Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imagePatience can be rewarded as with this composite of the 2016 Geminids meteor shower, seen over Mt Teide volcano on the Canary Islands, off SpainFlickr/StarryEarth, CC BY-NC

After a disappointing 2016, when most of the annual major meteor showers were washed out by moonlight, 2017 looks far more promising.

Of the big three, the Quadrantids in January...

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