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Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters

  • Written by: Mark Maund, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle

The impacts of the bushfires that are overwhelming emergency services in New South Wales and Queensland suggest houses are being built in areas where the risks are high. We rely heavily on emergency services to protect people and property, but strategic land-use planning can improve resilience and so help reduce the risk in the first place. This...

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If weight loss is your only goal for exercise, it's time to rethink your priorities

  • Written by: Evelyn Parr, Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
If weight loss is your only goal for exercise, it's time to rethink your prioritiesChoose an activity you enjoy so it's easier to stick to.Shutterstock

As an aesthetic society, we often demonise body fat and stigmatise people with lots of it. There’s often an assumption that people carrying excess weight don’t exercise and must be unhealthy.

But that’s not true: you can be fat and fit. In fact, as we age, low...

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how the ABC took Australian animals to the people

  • Written by: Gay Hawkins, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
how the ABC took Australian animals to the peopleThe 'natural sounds' of native animals like this koala had been heard on ABC Radio, but bringing them to TV audiences in the 1960s presented new and exciting challenges.abcarchives/flickr, CC BY-NC

Most of us will never see a platypus or a lyrebird in the wild, but it’s likely we’ve encountered them on television.

Our new research looks...

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Instead of showing leadership, Twitter pays lip service to the dangers of deep fakes

  • Written by: David Cook, Lecturer, Computer and Security Science,Edith Cowan University, Edith Cowan University
Instead of showing leadership, Twitter pays lip service to the dangers of deep fakesNeural networks can generate artificial representations of human faces, as well as realistic renderings of actual people.Shutterstock

Fake videos and doctored photographs, often based on events such as the Moon landing and supposed UFO appearances, have been the subject of fascination for decades.

Such imagery is often deep fake content, called so...

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  1. why coastal floods are becoming more frequent as seas rise
  2. There's a yawning gap in the plan to keep older Australians working
  3. Old white men dominate school English booklists. It's time more Australian schools taught Australian books
  4. Government to inject economic stimulus by accelerating infrastructure spend
  5. Government makes changes to error-prone robo-debt collection
  6. Evacuating with a baby? Here's what to put in your emergency kit
  7. We modelled 4 scenarios for Australia's future. Economic growth alone can't deliver the goods
  8. reckoning with the past or retreating into it?
  9. Don't (just) blame echo chambers. Conspiracy theorists actively seek out their online communities
  10. a dangerous new phase for the Hong Kong protests
  11. Our land is burning, and western science does not have all the answers
  12. Nitrogen fertilisers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse
  13. What the termite mound 'snowmen' of the NT can tell us about human nature
  14. Loneliness is a social cancer, every bit as alarming as cancer itself
  15. showing potential, but with room for improvement
  16. The problem with child protection isn't the money, it's the system itself
  17. Please, no more projections. What we need are predictions, and they're harder
  18. Green cement a step closer to being a game-changer for construction emissions
  19. Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China – an expert explains the key revelations
  20. Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it
  21. Paul Keating attacks media for 'pious belchings' over China
  22. What are parasites and how do they make us sick?
  23. Turn down for what? Why you turn down the radio when you're trying to park your car
  24. Chat bots, James Dean ... can the digital dead rest in peace?
  25. Domestic violence will spike in the bushfire aftermath, and governments can no longer ignore it
  26. An 8-year-old made US$22 million on YouTube, but most social media influencers are like unpaid interns
  27. Making sense of menopausal hormone therapy means understanding the benefits as well as the risks
  28. Re-imagining a museum of our First Nations
  29. greenspace-oriented development could make higher density attractive
  30. Children learn through play – it shouldn’t stop at preschool
  31. The main problem with virtual reality? It's almost as humdrum as real life
  32. Chinese embassy says Liberal critics Hastie and Paterson should "repent"
  33. Michelle Grattan on the government's response to the bushfires
  34. Conditions built into Frydenberg's okay for Chinese baby formula takeover
  35. why Sweden's central bank dumped Australian bonds
  36. celebrate with us and grab your discounted copy
  37. will banning illegal offshore sites really help kick our gambling habit?
  38. Stop the world, I want to get off! In Exit Strategies, one woman leaves and leaves again
  39. will the country see a return to strongman politics?
  40. Is social media damaging to children and teens? We asked five experts
  41. controlled burns often fail to slow a bushfire
  42. Vital Signs. Might straight down the middle be the source of our economic success?
  43. Friday essay: shaved, shaped and slit
  44. Research funding announcements have become a political tool, creating crippling uncertainty for academics
  45. New research shows Chinese migrants don't always side with China and are happy to promote Australia
  46. Public places through kids' eyes – what do they value?
  47. Is your teen off to schoolies? Here's what to say instead of freaking out
  48. Australia must engage with nuclear research or fall far behind
  49. When the firies call him out on climate change, Scott Morrison should listen
  50. how holograms and other tech could help outsmart bushfires

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