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Ensuring children get enough physical activity while being safe is a delicate balancing act

  • Written by: Lisa Nicole Sharwood, Injury epidemiologist, University of Sydney
Ensuring children get enough physical activity while being safe is a delicate balancing actSafety standards for children's products aren't intended to completely prevent injury.from shutterstock.com

A Sydney playground was closed earlier this year after children and adults suffered a spate of injuries including broken bones, burns and bruises on a giant tube-slide. The Hilltop Playground had been open for less than one month. The...

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Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia

  • Written by: Jennifer Kent, Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Why car sharing had a slow start in AustraliaPrivate cars with built-in sharing technology will soon be available in Australia.Shutterstock

Car sharing arrived on the Australian scene in the early 2000s. These are commercial services that give people access to vehicles they can rent by the hour.

Services in Australia currently include GoGet and Car Next Door. While GoGet has a fleet of...

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How a near-perfect rectangular iceberg formed

  • Written by: Sue Cook, Ice Shelf Glaciologist, Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania

NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck was on a surveying flight over the Antarctic Peninsula earlier this month when he spotted an iceberg that looked like no other. It was almost perfectly rectangular, with square sides and a flat top that made it look more human-made than natural.

“I thought this rectangular iceberg was visually interesting and...

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Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in Melbourne

  • Written by: Nicole Kalms, Director of XYX Lab + Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Monash University
Crowd-mapping gender equality – a powerful tool for shaping a better city launches in MelbourneEnsuring both men and women have access to baby changing facilities is one of many issues that gender equality mapping can help tackle.Pixabay, CC BY

Inequity in cities has a long history. The importance of social and community planning to meet the challenge of creating people-centred cities looms large. While planners, government and designers...

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  1. The ancient origins of werewolves
  2. Simon Birmingham's intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous
  3. The rise of sponges in Anthropocene reef ecosystems
  4. Spinifex grass would like us to stop putting out bushfires, please
  5. Michelle Grattan on the Wentworth washup
  6. Three charts on: how and what Australians eat (hint: it's not good)
  7. Heart attacks more frequent in colder weather
  8. Imagining your own SeaChange – how media inspire our great escapes
  9. Inside the world of million-dollar beauty pageants – for camels
  10. More than a century on, the battle fought by Australia's suffragists is yet to be won
  11. Being in nature is good for learning, here's how to get kids off screens and outside
  12. can you cut your cancer risk by eating organic?
  13. Government to set up new multi-billion Future Drought Fund
  14. Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrong
  15. Please, not another super scheme, Mr Keating. It's what the pension is for
  16. Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today
  17. a fresh perspective on Leonard Cohen and the island that inspired him
  18. Morrison fights political fire with leaky buckets
  19. Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
  20. We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it's insane to wait any longer
  21. Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
  22. Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars
  23. why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender diverse people
  24. Working to reclaim and rebuild our food systems from the ground up
  25. add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding
  26. Pianist Sir András Schiff returns to Sydney for a sublime recital
  27. launch of The Conversation 2018 Yearbook
  28. Why Australia needs a Religious Discrimination Act
  29. things to consider before going that extra mile for your smile
  30. Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US
  31. Sabrina the teenage witch is back, with a darker look for our times
  32. how to spot and suggest a fact check
  33. The best way to boost the economy is the best way to improve the lives of disadvantaged students
  34. Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia
  35. Here's how to design cities where people and nature can both flourish
  36. What causes multiple sclerosis? What we know, don't know and suspect
  37. Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
  38. The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off
  39. foreign donations and political influence
  40. Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversion
  41. Why is a magpie's poo black and white?
  42. The internet has done a lot, but so far little for economic growth
  43. the myth that obscures the real problem
  44. New research shines light on sexual violence at Australian music festivals
  45. What is 'quality' in aged care? Here's what studies (and our readers) say
  46. Do chatbots have a role to play in suicide prevention?
  47. Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive
  48. We must look past short-term drought solutions and improve the land itself
  49. Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough
  50. Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women

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