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which one is most to blame when it comes to weight gain?

  • Written by: Andrew Brown, Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW
which one is most to blame when it comes to weight gain?Stop blaming your parents for your weight. from www.shutterstock.com

With obesity on the rise, so too is the diet and weight loss industry, currently valued at US$70 billion in the US alone. But most of us are still confused about the factors that lead to weight gain.

Three commonly attributed factors are our genes, our microbiome (gut bugs) and...

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It's hard to make money in aged care, and that's part of the problem

  • Written by: Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
It's hard to make money in aged care, and that's part of the problemThe rules make it hard to make reasonable money providing a reasonable service.Shutterstock

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety on Sunday, responding to concerns about the sector one day before an ABC Four Corners program which was to air them.

Aged care is where the challenges of population...

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The Beehive, a documentary in 1,344 versions, explores the unsolved murder of Juanita Nielsen

  • Written by: Kim Munro, PhD candidate, RMIT University
The Beehive, a documentary in 1,344 versions, explores the unsolved murder of Juanita NielsenStill from Zanny Begg's film The Beehive. Youtube

Review: The Beehive, ACMI Melbourne

A conventional documentary presents a singular argument or perspective. But Zanny Begg throws out the conventions in her film, The Beehive, by presenting 1,344 possible versions of the narrative. This prompts us to question how knowledge is constructed.

The Beehive...

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Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metrics

  • Written by: Geoff Sharrock, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, University of Melbourne
Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metricsOECD data can be a cherry-picker’s picnic in local higher education funding debates.www.shutterstock.com

This is a longer read. Enjoy!

In Paris each year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes its Education at a Glance report. And each year, local reporting highlights our incredibly low public spending on...

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  1. Morrison tells Liberal organisation to act on bullying after second woman flags she'll quit
  2. Labor's lead shrinks in federal Ipsos, but grows in Victorian Galaxy; Trump's ratings slip
  3. university publishing houses and the national creative estate
  4. Twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords, the prospect of peace in the Middle East remains bleak
  5. Essential reading to get your head around Australia's aged care crisis
  6. How do you know that we aren't in virtual reality right now?
  7. After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriage
  8. Young Australians' prospects still come down to where they grow up
  9. An artist's surreal view of Australia – created from satellite data captured 700km above Earth
  10. Daily low-dose aspirin doesn't reduce heart-attack risk in healthy people
  11. the rise and rise of an unlikely hero
  12. Why yet another visa for farm work makes no sense
  13. How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey row
  14. Morrison faces the challenge of community-based candidate in Wentworth
  15. Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalism
  16. It's hard to spread the idiot fruit
  17. Evictions versus holdouts. How to painlessly dissolve a strata title
  18. Michelle Grattan on the Liberal pick for Wentworth and Morrison's bad week
  19. New law won't safeguard medicine supply – it'll only ensure we know there's a shortage
  20. Vital for life, heat and power – what you never knew about salt water
  21. How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them
  22. Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
  23. Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science
  24. who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
  25. Vital signs. When cutting interest rates might not help
  26. Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
  27. We mapped cancer rates across Australia – search for your postcode here
  28. We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
  29. Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women's contributions to physics
  30. How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically just 14 pieces
  31. Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
  32. you're gonna need a bigger rope to tie down this alien hunter
  33. As Witness K trial opens, questions over how much of Timor-Leste spying case to keep secret from public
  34. knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries
  35. Independent isn't necessarily better. Why appointing independent directors can achieve little
  36. Sharing your meter data might help cut your power bill, but it needs secure regulation
  37. the poetry of Rosemary Dobson
  38. World politics explainer: The Holocaust
  39. New body for complaints against police in Victoria is a good move, with some caveats
  40. double standards a double fault
  41. where do clouds come from and why do they have different shapes?
  42. The paradox of choice. Why made-to-order might not solve the fashion industry's problems
  43. In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer)
  44. Yes, AI may take some jobs – but it could also mean more men doing care work
  45. Where Australian states are up to in decriminalising abortion
  46. Why anti-American sentiment is weaker under Trump than it was under George W. Bush
  47. what is energy security, and how has it changed?
  48. Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities
  49. how Australia scrambles to regulate Chinese technology
  50. Communist aristocrat, Soviet spy and activist filmmaker

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