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How to monitor the bushfires raging across Australia

  • Written by: Amanda Gearing, Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology

As I write this, fires are consuming huge swathes of Australia and conditions are expected to worsen. The situation is attracting global interest, and reporting has been extensive.

But it isn’t always easy to find reliable information on how the situation is developing in specific areas that are home to your family and friends.

The following...

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History repeats itself. That's bad news for the 2020s

  • Written by: David Baker, Lecturer in Big History, Macquarie University
History repeats itself. That's bad news for the 2020sWhen there are too many elites in a society, competition for power makes existing problems worse.Francisco Goya / Wikimedia

What will happen in the 2020s? If history is any guide (and there’s good reason to think it is), the outlook isn’t great.

Here are some big-picture predictions: stagnant real wages, faltering standard of living for...

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Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2020

  • Written by: Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2020A composite image of one night watching the Orionids meteor shower.Flickr/Jeff Sullivan, CC BY-NC-ND

Where 2019 was a disappointing year for meteor showers, with two of the big three (the Quadrantids, Perseids and Geminids) lost mainly to moonlight, 2020 promises to be much better.

The year starts with a bang with the Quadrantids providing a treat...

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Ashes to ashes, dust to ... compost? An eco-friendly burial in just 4 weeks

  • Written by: Emma Sheppard-Simms, PhD Candidate, School of Technology, Environments and Design, University of Tasmania
Ashes to ashes, dust to ... compost? An eco-friendly burial in just 4 weeksArtist's impression of the proposed ceremonial space of the Recompose facility in Seattle.Images courtesy of Olson Kundig, CC BY-NC

In Australia, interment in a cemetery or a churchyard has been the most common choices for in-ground burial. Over the past 20 years, though, burial has become a less accessible and more costly option for many people....

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  1. Expressing breast milk this summer? Storing it safely will protect your baby's health
  2. The Voice to Parliament isn't a new idea
  3. Black Saturday firefighters want you to listen to them, not call them 'heroes'
  4. A month at sea with no technology taught me how to steal my life back from my phone
  5. Swearing in public is still illegal, but you probably won’t be charged if you’re white
  6. how ecology and mental health go together in our cities
  7. a summer reading list for teens
  8. What is public space and why does it need protecting?
  9. Happy birthday, Mr Bean! Celebrating 30 years of a major comedy character
  10. How to avoid the dentist this holiday (and what to do if you need one in an emergency)
  11. how the GST became unstoppable
  12. heat affects all of us, but older people face the highest health risks
  13. 'Helicopter parenting' and 'tiger mothers'? Relax, Australian kids are alright
  14. What Australia watched on TV on New Year's Eve, 1959
  15. Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)
  16. What causes hangovers, blackouts and 'hangxiety'? Everything you need to know about alcohol these holidays
  17. For many, a pool swim is an Australian birthright. Let's make it easier for solo parents to claim it
  18. Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors
  19. 4 ways to keep kids learning while travelling
  20. why desexing dogs isn't always the best thing to do
  21. Playing with old phones teaches children good habits, and reflects our bad ones back at us
  22. That's a relief! We have a way to recover phosphorus from our urine
  23. live tourist snaps have turned solo adventures into social occasions
  24. when the world catches on fire, how do predators respond?
  25. 4 ways to get your kids off the couch these summer holidays
  26. How to pick the right sunscreen when you're blinded by choice
  27. Watch the Moon hide the Sun from northern Australia
  28. The 5 best films for cat lovers (that aren't the movie Cats)
  29. Dili wedding. How Australian farm work nudges up Timor's marriage rate
  30. how do magpies detect worms and other food underground?
  31. Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate change
  32. Take a plunge into the memories of Australia's favourite swimming pools
  33. the hidden aim of the 1927 tariff inquiry
  34. Being grateful this Christmas benefits you even when your family's driving you bananas
  35. Baby Jesus in art and the long tradition of depicting Christ as a man-child
  36. the statistics of Secret Santa
  37. How to support children whose parent works away for long periods
  38. a proposed new tax on electric vehicles is a bad idea
  39. when did toys turn into rocket science?
  40. how a minor Jewish holiday was remade in the image of Christmas
  41. How the cult of Virgin Mary turned a symbol of female authority into a tool of patriarchy
  42. Christians and their problem with sex
  43. 5 Australian books that can help young people understand their place in the world
  44. Scott Morrison returns, with regret
  45. What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia's implementation of Indigenous rights
  46. Australia's nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks
  47. How a rethink of emergency care is closing the gap, one person at a time
  48. Seeing the news up close, one devastating post at a time
  49. The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it's a good investment, too
  50. Scott Morrison's Christmas letter to the colleagues

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