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In 887, Robert Lepage has built a memory palace out of theatre

  • Written by Sarah Balkin, Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne
imageRobert Lepage explores his past, and the notion of memory, in his autobiographical show 887.Supplied

Robert Lepage’s autobiographical show at the Melbourne Festival, 887, is named for his childhood apartment building: 887 Avenue Murray in Quebec City. Lepage wrote, designed, directed and performed 887, but to call it a one-man show does not...

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Cracked it! A 30-year cold case involving an egg and the mysterious Night Parrot

  • Written by Penny Olsen, Honorary Professor in the Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Australian National University
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Sometimes nature leaves little clues that can be difficult to interpret, so getting things right isn’t always easy.

Consider the case of an egg that was found in northern Australia’s remote Tanami Desert. It was spotted abandoned on the ground among spinifex in the early 1980s.

After being studied by ornithologists, the view was that it...

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Getting tense (about tense in fiction)

  • Written by Camilla Nelson, Senior Lecturer in Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageWhen did past simple tense become passé, I ask myself. Tekke/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Writers, over the last decade, have been waxing lyrical about the rise of the present tense in English fiction. But this morning I read something entirely new – for me, at least. I read a manuscript written almost uniformly in the continuous tense and I found...

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Poo transplants and probiotics – does anything work to improve the health of our gut?

  • Written by Andrew Holmes, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
imageIf you don't have a problem, you don't need to mess with it. Joyseulay/Shutterstock

Our gut does more than help us digest food; the bacteria that call our intestines home have been implicated in everything from our mental health and sleep, to weight gain and cravings for certain foods. This series examines how far the science has come.


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  1. It's complicated: Australia's relationship with eating meat
  2. Clinton and Trump meet in final presidential debate: experts respond
  3. Protection, not public shaming, is the way forward for child offenders
  4. Explainer: what is carpal tunnel syndrome and what happens if I get it?
  5. Big Tobacco sees its future in cigarettes, not vaping
  6. Design in the 'hybrid city': DIY meets platform urbanism in Dhaka's informal settlements
  7. Under the Milky Way: what a new map reveals about our galaxy
  8. The secret life of echidnas reveals a world-class digger vital to our ecosystems
  9. Where the action really is: control of the Senate, and the Supreme Court
  10. Respectful relationships education isn't about activating a gender war
  11. Algorithms might be everywhere, but like us, they're deeply flawed
  12. Western Australia's economic future remains uncertain after the mining boom: study
  13. Differences on liberalism provide Asia's latest faultline
  14. Why sport is a spiritual experience – and failure can help
  15. Why the silence on climate in the US presidential debates?
  16. Zika and Ebola had a much worse effect on women: we need more research to address this in future
  17. Leyonhjelm will look for another trade off for ABCC support if government won't play on gun
  18. Race to the White House – opinion polls, Clinton's campaign, and the third debate
  19. Crown: the trials of a tributary state
  20. APRA take the easy road out with risk culture
  21. Finding the right model for Indonesia's oil and gas management
  22. Teaching reptiles to avoid cane toads earns top honour in PM's science prizes
  23. Weekly Dose: multiple sclerosis drug fingolimod comes from fungus Chinese medicine calls 'eternal youth'
  24. FactCheck: Have average out-of-pocket costs for GP visits risen almost 20% under the Coalition?
  25. Fishing is worth more than jobs and profits to Australia's coastal towns
  26. Apple Pay dispute may mean less opportunity to pay with your mobile
  27. Why motion capture performances deserve an Oscar
  28. The slow climb from innovation to cure: treating anaemia with gene editing
  29. Explainer: what is the Adler shotgun? And should restrictions on it be lifted?
  30. Babies born to overweight mothers more likely to get age-related diseases sooner
  31. Arts training is an essential part of an innovative nation
  32. Can the private rental sector provide a secure, affordable housing solution?
  33. Young people don't expect to rely on the 'bank of mum and dad': study
  34. What went wrong with Pokémon Go? Three lessons from its plummeting player numbers
  35. How we discovered the 'Higgs bison', hiding in plain sight in ancient cave art
  36. How women historians smashed the glass ceiling
  37. No it's not your imagination, it actually is colder on the weekend (if you live in a city)
  38. Death on the Great Barrier Reef: how dead coral went from economic resource to conservation symbol
  39. Is social media turning people into narcissists?
  40. How the dictionary is totes taking up the vernacular
  41. When truth is the first casualty of politics and journalism
  42. Unusual conditions: what is Rapunzel syndrome and why do some people eat hair?
  43. Turnbull walks right into Shorten's gun-sight
  44. Politics podcast: Stirling Griff and Skye Kakoschke-Moore on life in the Senate
  45. Paying a heavy price for loving the Neanderthals
  46. Crown employee arrests show danger of assumptions about China
  47. How a saviour of the ozone hole became a climate change villain – and how we're going to fix it
  48. Australians have little to fear from terrorism at home – here's why
  49. Teaching in higher education – there isn't enough evidence to tell us what works and why
  50. Bacchus Marsh baby deaths: Australia should learn from the UK and publish clinician performance data

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