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Kitchen Science: from sizzling brisket to fresh baked bread, the chemical reaction that makes our favourite foods taste so good

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imageThe Maillard reaction is what gives brisket it's brown colour and delicious flavours.Shutterstock

Have you ever wondered how freshly baked bread gets its a golden brown crust and why it smells so good? Or how nondescript green berries turn into beautiful brown coffee beans with a rich alluring aroma?

The answers to these questions lie in a series of...

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Vital Signs: why everyone seems a bit worse off

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Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: GDP not as good as it looks,...

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Does government spending on education promote economic growth?

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Economic growth is driven by new ideas, by discoveries that result in better products and more efficient production technologies.

Human capital is the engine of this process: a better educated labour force increases the return on research and development and ensures that...

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