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How does bushfire smoke affect our health? 6 things you need to know

  • Written by: Emil Jeyaratnam, Data + Interactives Editor, The Conversation

As bushfires continue to burn around Australia, smoke has continued to blanket major cities and regional areas.

Smoke emissions from the Australian bushfires from December 18, 2019 to January 17, 2020.

Sydney and Canberra have now suffered on and off for months. While the smoke has affected Melbourne to a lesser extent, today Melbourne and large...

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Friday essay: Beethoven - an icon at risk of overexposure?

  • Written by: David Larkin, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
Friday essay: Beethoven - an icon at risk of overexposure?Happy birthday Beethoven, 250 this year. Here, artist Ottmar Hoerl's sculptural tribute in Bonn, Germany. Shutterstock

In a series marking the 250th year of his birth, we analyse the significance of Ludwig van Beethoven.

In the centre of Bonn, a bronze statue stands on a pedestal in the Münsterplatz.

The figure is dressed in typical early...

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we've observed a spinning star that drags the very fabric of space and time

  • Written by: Matthew Bailes, ARC Laureate Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology., Swinburne University of Technology
we've observed a spinning star that drags the very fabric of space and timeA white dward (centre) and its companion pulsar make for an excellent natural gravitational laboratory.Mark Myers/OzGrav

One of the predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity is that any spinning body drags the very fabric of space-time in its vicinity around with it. This is known as “frame-dragging”.

In everyday life,...

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Want to send your child to a school outside your zone? This system could give you the choice

  • Written by: Isa Hafalir, Professor, Economics, University of Technology Sydney

Australian governments should consider giving parents and children greater choice of public schools through a transfer system that promotes exchange across catchment areas and prioritises disadvantaged students.

Most big cities in Australia use “catchment areas” for assigning students to public schools. Most public school students attend...

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  2. how do voices come out of our mouths?
  3. The uncomfortable truth about super: there's no ‘one-size-fits-all’ contribution
  4. Coronavirus adds to Scott Morrison's many woes
  5. The 'sports rorts' affair shows the government misunderstands the role of the public service
  6. Will my child get coronavirus at school? Here's some perspective for Aussie parents
  7. How to listen to podcasts
  8. animal skin fashion, exports and ethical trade
  9. Don't believe the myths – taxing sugary drinks makes us drink less of it
  10. Two satellites just avoided a head-on smash. How close did they come to disaster?
  11. Trump's Middle East 'vision' is a disaster that will only make things worse
  12. The Australian government needs to step up its fight to free Kylie Moore-Gilbert from prison in Iran
  13. Kids learn best when you add a problem-solving boost to ‘back-to-basics’ instruction
  14. Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment
  15. Building standards give us false hope. There's no such thing as a fireproof house
  16. How the term 'Anthropocene' jumped from geoscience to hashtags
  17. Bees learn better when they can explore. Humans might work the same way
  18. After 40 years of Australian-Chinese sister cities, how are they faring?
  19. Politicians not bureaucrats are the ones in touch, Morrison claims in sports affair
  20. Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact
  21. Comma again? Philip Pullman's Oxford comma rage doesn't go far enough
  22. Had constipation? Here are 4 things to help treat it
  23. Humans are good at thinking their way out of problems – but climate change is outfoxing us
  24. Scott Morrison's 'resilience' speech overshadowed as McKenzie crisis deepens
  25. The US presidential primaries are arcane, complex and unrepresentative. So why do Americans still vote this way?
  26. Gwyneth Paltrow’s The Goop Lab whitewashes traditional health therapies for profit
  27. Not all Australian parents can access quality childcare and preschool – they can't just 'shop around'
  28. Seniors struggle with technology, and often their kids won't help
  29. How to cope with extreme heat days without racking up the aircon bills
  30. How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?
  31. how drug slang affects the way we use and understand drugs
  32. What we know suggests the economic impact of Wuhan coronavirus will be limited
  33. Fire almost wiped out rare species in the Australian Alps. Feral horses are finishing the job
  34. Stone tools reveal epic trek of nomadic Neanderthals
  35. Pulling out weeds is the best thing you can do to help nature recover from the fires
  36. no lift in wage growth, no lift in economic growth and no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations
  37. ACT cannabis laws come into effect on Friday, but they may not be what you hoped for
  38. More than skin deep, beauty salons are places of sharing and caring
  39. this is what Australia can learn from India
  40. Indigenous languages matter – but all is not lost when they change or even disappear
  41. Thinking about thinking helps kids learn. How can we teach critical thinking?
  42. Australia's National Digital ID is here, but the government's not talking about it
  43. Yes, this continent was invaded in 1788 – an international law expert explains
  44. How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher
  45. 29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year
  46. 10½ commandments of writing
  47. How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain size, but blood flow
  48. The Wuhan coronavirus is now in Australia – here's what you need to know
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  50. What we learn from a fish that can change sex in just 10 days

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