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Debunking common myths about raising bilingual children

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageRaising a child bilingually does not cause language learning difficulties.www.shutterstock.com

By the age of two, children are typically able to say a few hundred words. My son, Alexander, was able to understand almost everything in both languages – Greek and English – but he could say only six words.

Our concerns grew as we watched...

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Blockchain – A Regulatory Unicorn?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Never one to let a bandwagon pass by, Greg Medcraft, the Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has enthusiastically hopped onto the Blockchain wagon. Mr Medcraft has seen the light and recently proclaimed

Blockchain is an important technology development that has the potential to change fundamentally the...

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Against accommodationism: How science undermines religion

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageFaith versus Fact

There is currently a fashion for religion/science accommodationism, the idea that there’s room for religious faith within a scientifically informed understanding of the world.

Accommodationism of this kind gains endorsement even from official science organizations such as, in the United States, the National Academy of...

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  6. Busted myths: what spiders, chewing gum and haemorrhoids have in common
  7. 5 Things We Learned about our Past in 2015
  8. Senator’s call for return of cracker night ... and burns, amputations and blindings?
  9. Time for a reset? How to make your New Year's resolutions work
  10. Are Women People? Alice Duer Miller's message still rings true 100 years on
  11. Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2016
  12. Self-control or government regulation? Squaring the blame for overeating
  13. 2015, the year that was: Arts + Culture
  14. Five traits of an ethical leader
  15. How curiosity can save species from extinction
  16. The Loved and Loathed Films of 2015
  17. What young adult fiction looked like in 2015
  18. 2015, the year that was: Education
  19. Six things you should not have missed in 2015: Business + Economy
  20. 2015, the year that was: Health + Medicine
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  22. You _can_ thaw and refreeze meat: five food safety myths busted
  23. Scientists on their favourite science fiction
  24. What music sounded like in 2015
  25. 2015, the year that was: Politics + Society
  26. 2015, the year that was: Environment + Energy
  27. How to keep kids reading over the Christmas break
  28. What lies beneath: the bugs lurking in your swimming pool
  29. Mistletoe: the kiss of life for healthy forests
  30. Space in 2015 was out of this world
  31. Th’is a reason to be jolly (even, yes, for philosophers)
  32. How to unwrap Christmas and Santa for the little atheists in your life
  33. Non-human Democracy: putting inspirations, lessons and analogies to work
  34. The best places to see Australian birds this summer
  35. Should I throw away food once a fly has landed on it?
  36. Cities as Democratic Laboratories: the case of Seoul
  37. In 2015, chasing illegal downloaders backfired. Netflix and VPN were the winners
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  39. Christmas Already? ‘Tis The Season to Think About Time
  40. Five ways to reduce your eco-footprint this Christmas
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