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What Conversation articles had the biggest impact on you in 2016?

  • Written by Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

The year is coming to a close and that means it’s time to take stock on what’s happened during 2016. We’ve compiled a best-of in our Yearbook 2016 and I thought it would be nice to see what articles had the biggest impact on our readers.

What have you enjoyed reading?

Perhaps, like me, you spent a lot with Raimond Gaita’s Refl...

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Sex lives of reptiles could leave them vulnerable to climate change

  • Written by Clare Holleley, Senior Research Scientist, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO

We are only just starting to appreciate the full sexual diversity of animals. What we are learning is helping us understand evolution and how animals will cope with a changing world.

In humans and other mammals, sex chromosomes (the Xs and Ys) determine physical sex. But in reptiles, sometimes sex chromosomes do not match physical sex. We call...

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The case for a fixed 15% fee on all student loans

  • Written by Bruce Chapman, Director, Policy Impact, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University
imageA flat-rate fee on student loans isn't a radical idea.from www.shutterstock.com

The Grattan Institute has proposed that a 15% surcharge should be added to the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt of undergraduate and college students.

The surcharge is not an up front fee. It is a fee that is added to the existing debt and paid later, depending...

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Kidman sale finally gets green light

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageScott Morrison rejected earlier foreign-controlled bids for the S Kidman & Co. pastoral empire on national interest grounds.AAP/Lukas Coch

The sale of the vast Kidman pastoral empire to the joint venture Outback Beef – led by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock with the Chinese-owned Shanghai CRED having a one-third interest – has passed...

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  1. Emissions trading for electricity is the sensible way forward
  2. Who's listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app
  3. Turnbull’s report card on urban transport projects reveals narrow economic focus
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's carbon emissions policy
  5. Time scarcity is a slippery slope to inactivity
  6. Friday essay: what is it about Versailles?
  7. You say 'elite media', I say real journalism. And now more than ever we must fight to keep it
  8. Law to be strengthened on family violence
  9. How to prevent injury from sport and exercise
  10. How we can change our body shape with exercise
  11. Why capital is fleeing China and what it means for Australia
  12. To pay solar households fairly, we need to understand the true value of solar
  13. Not just nets: how to stop shark attacks without killing sharks
  14. Kitchen Science: the chemistry behind amazing meringue and perfect cappuccino
  15. Grattan on Friday: Has Turnbull's credibility deficit reached a point of no return?
  16. The great Australian plays: The Torrents, the Doll and the critical mass of Australian drama
  17. How to grow an evolutionary tree
  18. Behind Singapore’s PISA rankings success – and why other countries may not want to join the race
  19. Our drugs policies have failed. It's time to reinvent them based on what actually works
  20. Why the Iran nuclear agreement is a deal worth honouring
  21. Trumpian deswampification
  22. Why iron is such an important part of your diet
  23. Climate shenanigans at the ends of the Earth: why has sea ice gone haywire?
  24. Density threatens liveability if we miss the big picture of how a city works
  25. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 6
  26. Uncertainty over US-China relations under President Trump may be made clearer at Davos
  27. Business Briefing: what super is doing to banking and finance
  28. Seven essential tips to breaking up with sugar
  29. Interactive body map: physical inactivity and the risks to your health
  30. Exercise: motivation gets you started, but routine keeps you going
  31. What you need to know to understand risk estimates
  32. By framing secular society as a Christian creation, Hanson's revival goes beyond simple racism
  33. Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend
  34. Why artificial intelligence has not revolutionised healthcare... yet
  35. How to reduce your kitchen's impact on global warming
  36. Ten years of backflips over emissions trading leave climate policy in the lurch
  37. As its economy changes, China is starting to export its real estate ideas too
  38. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on working the new parliament
  39. Why give the Green Army its marching orders?
  40. Tiny desert mice could help save Australia's grasslands from invasion
  41. Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change
  42. Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure
  43. Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman
  44. Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia
  45. Keeping one step ahead of pollen triggers for thunderstorm asthma
  46. Where are the women scientists, tech gurus and engineers in our films?
  47. Periodontitis: why we need a vaccine for gum disease
  48. Coalition regains ground in Newspoll
  49. Hold pornography to account – not education programs – for children's harmful sexual behaviour
  50. These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work

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