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who came up with the first letters?

  • Written by: Louise Pryke, Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
who came up with the first letters?Writing wasn’t just invented once by a single person. Many different ancient societies invented writing at different times and places. www.shutterstock.com

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine...

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With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending

  • Written by: David Belgrave, Lecturer in Politics and Citizenship, Massey University
With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spendingNew Zealand's military aircraft are used for disaster relief, such as following a series of earthquakes in Sulawesi in 2018. EPA/Holti Simanjuntak, CC BY-ND

In most countries, the question of whether to produce guns or butter is a metaphor for whether a country should put its efforts into defence or well-being. In New Zealand, this debate is much...

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how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice

  • Written by: Robert Slonim, Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choiceThree decades of behavioural experiments show consumers given too many choices are more likely to make a bad or no choice.www.shutterstock.com

Do you think you are paying more than you should for energy, banking, insurance, internet and phone services? You are not alone, and you are probably right.

Companies offer a growing number of deals that...

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We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics

  • Written by: Will J Grant, Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University

In an ideal world, people would look at issues with a clear focus only on the facts. But in the real world, we know that doesn’t happen often.

People often look at issues through the prism of their own particular political identity - and have probably always done so.

However, in an environment of fake news, filter bubbles and echo chambers,...

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  1. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  2. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  3. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  4. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  5. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  6. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  7. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  8. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  9. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  10. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  11. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  12. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  13. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  14. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  15. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  16. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  17. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  18. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  19. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  20. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  21. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  22. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change
  23. Adani is cleared to start digging its coal mine – six key questions answered
  24. Why too many fearless people on a team make collaboration less likely
  25. Racial abuse is rife in junior sports – and little is being done to address it
  26. 6 actions Australia's government can take right now to target online racism
  27. The battle to stare down the defiant John Setka
  28. Undocumented plant extinctions are a big problem in Australia – here’s why they go unnoticed
  29. Hong Kong in crisis over relationship with China – and there does not appear to be a good solution
  30. A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
  31. Our culture affects the way we look after ourselves. It should shape the health care we receive, too
  32. a journey through the inferno to robots and extinction
  33. NT wants to end 'naming and shaming' of juvenile offenders, sparking press freedom debate
  34. Will the Coalition's approach to gender equality actually improve women's lives?
  35. We're not just living for longer – but we're staying healthier for longer, too
  36. our copyright laws and the Australian Aboriginal flag
  37. Creatives in the country? Blockchain and agtech can create unexpected jobs in regional Australia
  38. Parents say their children have tutors to fill gaps, not to charge ahead
  39. how a ‘repair economy’ creates a kinder, more caring community
  40. Why old-school climate denial has had its day
  41. ACTU's Sally McManus to confront CFMMEU's John Setka
  42. why do leeches suck our blood?
  43. The Nightingale - much ado about nothing
  44. A parasite attack on Darwin's finches means they're losing their lovesong
  45. flying taxi trials may lead to passenger service by 2023
  46. How New Zealand’s well-being budget delivers for the environment
  47. Fertility miracle or fake news? Understanding which IVF 'add-ons' really work
  48. why did the dinosaurs die?
  49. The shameful history of blundering asylum seeker policy
  50. Establishing fitness to stand trial as the first step in Christchurch attack court process

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