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How do SIM cards make a phone work?

  • Written by: Philip Branch, Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
How do SIM cards make a phone work?SIM cards contain a computer chip that can do some simple mathematics and store some data. Flickr/jbdodane, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS...

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How Australian media are changing the way they report violence against women

  • Written by: Annie Blatchford, PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
How Australian media are changing the way they report violence against women

Recently in Australia there has been a horrific wave of murders of women and children. But, in the aftermath of the #metoo movement, we have seen a change in the way the media are reporting violence against women.

Witness the reporting of the murder of Eurydice Dixon, followed by the abduction and rape of a woman in Carlton, murder-suicides in...

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How to turn the waste crisis into a design opportunity

  • Written by: Tom Lee, Lecturer, Faculty of Design and Architecture Building, University of Technology Sydney
How to turn the waste crisis into a design opportunityDavid Lisbona/Flickr, CC BY-SA

You might never have heard of expanded polystyrene, but you’ve definitely used it. It’s the lightweight white foam used for everything from packing peanuts to holding boxes of veggies at the supermarket.

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is versatile, waterproof, and surprisingly strong. Unfortunately, it’s...

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Labor MP Emma Husar takes personal leave as party investigates conduct towards staff

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

Labor’s member for the NSW marginal seat of Lindsay, Emma Husar, has announced she is taking personal leave, after a long-running party investigation into allegations she misused and bullied staff members became public.

Husar said in a statement that she had received threats of violence.

The NSW Labor party probe, led by barrister John Whelan,...

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  1. What could a My Health Record data breach look like?
  2. The shaky case for prosecuting Witness K and his lawyer in the Timor-Leste spying scandal
  3. Melancholia artfully brings the end of the world to the stage
  4. Taking on big tech: where does Australia stand?
  5. CEO pay is more about white male entitlement than value for money
  6. Gardening improves the health of social housing residents and provides a sense of purpose
  7. UN delivers strong rebuke to Australian government on women's rights
  8. is cheese bad for you?
  9. Australian Ninja Warrior and the death of style and grace in sport
  10. how digital tools are revolutionising patient care
  11. Why the world should be worried about the rise of strongman politics
  12. Migrants are still buying into the dream of home ownership, but it's becoming more elusive
  13. How the 'yeah-but' mentality stalls progress on bag bans and other green issues
  14. what if it is wrong?
  15. killing rabbits to conserve native mammals
  16. University students aren't reporting sexual assault, and new guidelines don't address why
  17. how long should you stay away when you have a cold or the flu?
  18. Why Australia needs its own torture report
  19. Australia's French Impressionist maps artistic connections
  20. Five steps business can take to ensure aggressive performance targets don't drive bad behaviour
  21. what's at stake on Super Saturday
  22. Curious Kids: Why do volcanoes erupt?
  23. What should be done with the NBN in the long run?
  24. Women who have heart attacks receive poorer care than men
  25. Migration helps balance our ageing population – we don't need a moratorium
  26. The Tale of Genji, a 1,000-year-old Japanese masterpiece
  27. Remembering Antarctica's nuclear past with 'Nukey Poo'
  28. how physical activity at school helps the mind (as well as the body)
  29. Leaders seek underdog status in byelection battle to be top dog
  30. As Super Saturday nears, Labor gains poll lead in Braddon, but trails in Longman, while UK Tories slump
  31. Government report provides important opportunity to rethink Australia's relationship with India
  32. Capturing the shadow of Saturn's moon Titan from right here on Earth
  33. Battle scars reveal the life of 'Mephisto', a WW1 German tank from a century ago
  34. are phone-obsessed teens at greater risk of ADHD?
  35. Is the 'Zero Hour' youth climate march a turning point, or more of the same?
  36. Michelle Grattan on the Mayo byelection and crossbenchers in the parliament
  37. do neckties reduce blood supply to the brain?
  38. booming jobs numbers, but dig deeper and it's not all rosy
  39. Universities can help recruit more science and maths teachers, but they can't do it alone
  40. Empty car parks everywhere, but nowhere to park. How cities can do better
  41. AEMO's 'cohesive' energy plan falls short because it omits two key economic facts
  42. Friday essay: why YA gothic fiction is booming
  43. Technology doesn't have to be lonely: encouraging dialogue over diatribe
  44. is glucosamine good for joints?
  45. When whistleblowers are prosecuted, it has a chilling effect on press freedom in Australia
  46. Disillusioned voters find it easy to embrace a crossbencher like Rebekha Sharkie
  47. what is parricide and how common is it in Australia?
  48. Rising reliance on personal income tax signals need for bolder reforms
  49. Sign up to Thrive and learn to live well
  50. can comedy really change our environmental behaviours?

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