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The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale's true legacy

  • Written by Alice Richardson, Associate professor, Australian National University
The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale's true legacyWikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

When you’re in a medical emergency, you don’t typically think of calling a statistician. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has shown just how necessary a clear understanding of data and modelling is to help prevent the spread of disease.

One person understood this a long time ago. Were she alive today, Florence...

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Not all twins are identical and that's been an evolutionary puzzle, until now

  • Written by Joseph L Tomkins, Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia
Not all twins are identical and that's been an evolutionary puzzle, until nowBeth Shepherd Peters/Shutterstock

When a mother gives birth to twins, the offspring are not always identical or even the same gender. Known as fraternal twins, they represent a longstanding evolutionary puzzle.

Identical twins arise from a single fertilised egg that accidentally splits in two, but fraternal twins arise when two eggs are released...

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First stage of 'road back' will boost monthly GDP by $3.1 billion and jobs by 252,500: Frydenberg

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Improved demand including in the retail sector and the re-opening of schools will be the largest contributors to an estimated $9.4 billion monthly rise in GDP from the planned three-stage lifting of COVID restrictions, according to Treasury estimates.

The first stage of easing, which the states are now implementing at varying paces, will increase...

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how the Cold War shaped Little Richard

  • Written by Nicholas Tochka, Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne
how the Cold War shaped Little RichardDon't Knock The Rock/YouTube/Screenshot

When he landed in Australia in October 1957, Little Richard should have been on top of the world. In just two years, the wild showman had traded the chitlin’ circuit for an international audience. Instead, he was pondering his future – and reading the Bible.

A fast-talking American entrepreneur...

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  1. China might well refuse to take our barley, and there would be little we could do
  2. This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation
  3. Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey
  4. As sport resumes after lockdown, it's time to level the playing field for women and girls
  5. It's hard to know when to come out from under the doona. It'll be soon, but not yet
  6. Should we re-open pubs next week? The benefits seem to exceed the costs
  7. Inside an innovative program helping sex offenders reintegrate into society – and why it works
  8. how 'death ships' spread disease through the ages
  9. how coronavirus is changing our language
  10. 40% of Australian principals are victims of physical violence
  11. Retire the retirement village – the wall and what’s behind it is so 2020
  12. Coronavirus shows housing costs leave many insecure. Tackling that can help solve an even bigger crisis
  13. Australians want industry, and they'd like it green. Steel is the place to start
  14. Let's "SnapBack" to better society with more secure jobs: Anthony Albanese
  15. From coronavirus tests to open-source insulin and beyond, 'biohackers' are showing the power of DIY science
  16. Little Richard's saucy style underpins today's hits
  17. The stepped approach out of lockdown is the only way forward, but how much we'll allow the curve to rise is still an unknown
  18. The Reserve Bank thinks the recovery will look V-shaped. There are reasons to doubt it
  19. Australia starts to re-open, but the premiers have the whip hand on timing
  20. Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?
  21. National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court
  22. Was New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference
  23. From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame
  24. Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?
  25. We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants
  26. Michelle Grattan on the rapid developments in Eden-Monaro, the national cabinet, and next week's 'normal' parliamentary sitting
  27. Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as essential in New Zealand's lockdown?
  28. keep free childcare going instead
  29. The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn't anybody seem to care?
  30. 50 years on, the Vietnam moratorium campaigns remind us of a different kind of politics
  31. We may well be able to eliminate coronavirus, but we'll probably never eradicate it. Here's the difference
  32. Past pandemics show how coronavirus budgets can drive faster economic recovery
  33. some home builders are misleading consumers about energy ratings
  34. Overcrowded homes and a lack of water leave some Indonesians at risk of the coronavirus
  35. The calculus of death shows the COVID lock-down is clearly worth the cost
  36. coughs on film and the fine but deadly art of foreshadowing
  37. The delicate art of political distancing during the pandemic
  38. How safe is COVIDSafe? What you should know about the app's issues, and Bluetooth-related risks
  39. the full findings of the royal commission report
  40. Why it doesn't make economic sense to ignore climate change in our recovery from the pandemic
  41. Before coronavirus, China was falsely blamed for spreading smallpox. Racism played a role then, too
  42. Researchers use 'pre-prints' to share coronavirus results quickly. But that can backfire
  43. Carriageworks was in trouble before coronavirus
  44. 3 times Michael Moore's film Planet of the Humans gets the facts wrong (and 3 times it gets them right)
  45. what games can teach us during the coronavirus pandemic
  46. Museums are losing millions every week but they are already working hard to preserve coronavirus artefacts
  47. testing our unlawful migrant workers
  48. Cities will endure, but urban design must adapt to coronavirus risks and fears
  49. Bank dividends are bare. Here's why some shareholders hate it more than they should
  50. 1 in 5 Aussies over 45 live with chronic pain, but there are ways to ease the suffering
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