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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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imageSorry, but the glass is half empty.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

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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imageAs GDP increases so does spending on education.from www.shutterstock.com

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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