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what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?

  • Written by: Duane Mellor, Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition, Coventry University
what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?No, these veggies are not trying to kill you. from www.shutterstock.com

If you get your health news from blogs such as Goop and Dr Oz, you might be led to believe a certain group of vegetables called “nightshade vegetables” are bad for you.

The theory goes that members of the plant family Solanaceae, which includes tomatoes, capsicums,...

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Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices

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

Bill Shorten will turn the energy spotlight onto gas on Monday, proposing measures Labor says will put downward pressure on prices for manufacturers and power generators and so benefit jobs and households.

A Labor government would introduce a permanent gas export control trigger that could be pulled when prices were too high, not just when a...

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Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • Written by: Peter C. Doherty, Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-MontalciniRita Levi-Montalcini celebrates her 100th birthday in 2009. Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY

Peter Doherty was invited to deliver the 2015 Rita Levi-Montalcini Lecture at BergamoScienza, an Italian science festival.

In this extract from his new book The Incidental Tourist, Peter explains how Rita was a true hero of 20th...

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Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense

  • Written by: Mike Young, Reseach Chair, Water and Environmental Policy, University of Adelaide

Scott Morrison has an honours degree in economic geography, and it shows. On Thursday the prime minister split apart the ministerial responsibilities for energy and climate, which were previously part of a united portfolio under Josh Frydenberg.

The new federal environment minister Melissa Price is now responsible for climate policy, whereas the...

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  5. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
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  7. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  8. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  9. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
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  11. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  12. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  13. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  14. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  15. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
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  20. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
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  22. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  23. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  24. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
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  26. done right, awareness-raising days can pack a punch
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  30. When AI meets your shopping experience it knows what you buy – and what you ought to buy
  31. online retailing is changing our lives, whether we use it or not
  32. Leaks target Peter Dutton over decisions on au pairs
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  34. Sarah Kane's controversial 1990s play Blasted feels prescient in the #MeToo era
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  36. Court opens door to domestic violence victim to sue police for negligence
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  40. journalist David Neiwert on the rise of the alt-right in Trump's America
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