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Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastes

  • Written by: Andrew Costanzo, Lecturer, Deakin University
Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastesOur taste system is conditioned so foods higher in energy taste better.from shutterstock.com

We all love delicious foods, even if we know they may not be good for us. Foods high in energy – specifically sweet, salty and fatty foods – tend to taste the best.

This is likely because our ancestors needed to seek out nutritious, high-energy...

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Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain

  • Written by: Michael Lohr, PhD Student - Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University
Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chainGould's goanna is commonly eaten in Indigenous communities, but can contain high levels of rat poison.Robert A. Davis, Author provided

Introduced rats and mice have probably troubled most of us at some time in our lives. These pesky invasive rodents are found around the world. We usually target them with toxic baits to stop them spreading disease...

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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

  • Written by: Katharine Kemp, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Co-Leader, 'Data as a Source of Market Power' Research Stream of The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW
Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your dataAdvances in machine learning may allow data that is de-identified now to be re-dentified in the future. from www.shutterstock.com

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and “sharing” in Australia.

This follows the government’s...

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eSports are shifting the focus of Australia's sporting passion

  • Written by: James Birt, Assistant Professor Interactive Media and Design, Bond University

The Intel Extreme Masters taking place in Sydney from May 4-6 will see 16 international teams battle it out over three days at Sydney Olympic Park for A$310,000 in prize money. Instead of competing physically for victory on a field, players will compete virtually in a first-person shooter video game called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

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  1. Planet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of nature
  2. APRA and ASIC have the legal power to sack bank heads, but they need willpower
  3. It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
  4. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: 'Dancing out of depression'
  5. To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
  6. The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts
  7. As Emmanuel Macron heads to Australia, the relationship is more important than ever
  8. Counting the costs of illness and injury on Australian workers
  9. With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
  10. Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
  11. but do we really need it?
  12. bandicoots live among us in Melbourne
  13. five articles to get you informed on sugar and Big Sugar's role in food policy
  14. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  15. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  16. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  17. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
  18. In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC
  19. Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?
  20. why is it increasing and who benefits?
  21. Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages
  22. how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
  23. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  24. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
  25. North and South Korea met
  26. AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge
  27. where to find a puffer jacket that doesn't warm the Earth
  28. Michelle Grattan on the government abandoning the Medicare levy
  29. do we need company tax cuts?
  30. How injuries change our brain and how we can help it recover
  31. Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
  32. Interest only loans are an economic debacle that could bust the property market
  33. how pleasure affects our brain
  34. China's recycling 'ban' throws Australia into a very messy waste crisis
  35. It's funny to name species after celebrities, but there's a serious side too
  36. Designing the compassionate city to overcome built-in biases and help us live better
  37. Friday essay: recovering a narrative of place
  38. Museum or not? The changing face of curated science, tech, art and culture
  39. Banning soldiers displaying death symbols is about the right military mindset, not political correctness
  40. Can the Turnbull government make the election all about tax?
  41. Pregnant women are at increased risk of domestic violence in all cultural groups
  42. How courts and costs are undermining ASIC and the ACCC's efforts to police misbehaving banks and businesses
  43. How 'new power' is driving journalism in the digital age
  44. Kidnapped democracy: how can citizens escape?
  45. Some women feel grief after an abortion, but there's no evidence of serious mental health issues
  46. Academics call on Facebook to make data more widely available for research
  47. Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale
  48. can they make us smarter?
  49. As a new defence chief comes in, Australia must focus its attention on its neighbours
  50. do we need ribbon-cutting infrastructure for jobs and growth?

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