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Four ways to tell if an educational app will actually help your child learn

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imageShe looks very studious. But is she learning?Girl with tablet via CroMary/www.shutterstock.com

Imagine someone telling you that a new technology would be available in five years that has the potential to revolutionise childhood and early education. But the downside is that you will have to choose from among 80,000 possible options. This is the...

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Encasing old buildings in cheap plastic mesh could have saved lives in Nepal

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imageFew of Nepal's houses use modern anti-earthquake engineering.Diego Azubel / EPA

When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, I was on the 9th floor of a 20-storey Tokyo hotel. The quake was one of the five most powerful since modern record keeping began in 1900, and it lasted for around three minutes – an unusually long time.

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  3. How the media struggled in Nepal's earthquake rescue
  4. RBA cuts cash rate to record low: experts react
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  9. Safety of contaminated vitamins and nutritional supplements can't be left to consumers
  10. Opportunity of a lifetime: NASA's 4,000 days roving Mars
  11. The British talk about cake 50 times as much as the deficit – politicians should cotton on
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  14. Victoria's 'families' budget boosts services, rewards voters
  15. Why are young Australian unis punching above their weight?
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  17. Enthusiastic spirit: John Mawurndjul at Tarrawarra
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  19. REIQ welcomes RBA rate cut of 25 basis points to 2.0%
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  24. Labor ahead in Newspoll, but Abbott gains ground on Shorten
  25. Manifesto Check: SNP not-so-brave in the face of eurosceptics
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  36. Hard Evidence: does a party leader's personality matter?
  37. Miliband might scrape through but questions could remain about his right to govern
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  39. The Pope's climate message will extend his advocacy for the poor
  40. It's time for Australians to rewind the media policy machine
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