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Educational activities for the summer break to beat boredom and learning loss

  • Written by: Catherine Attard, Associate Professor, Mathematics Education, Western Sydney University
imageIt's important to keep your kids occupied during the holidays, not just for your sanity, but also for their education.Shutterstock

Christmas is over, the novelty of new toys has worn off, and the holiday chorus of “I’m bored” is echoing in households everywhere. What can you do to stop the boredom?

First, it’s important to...

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Virtual reality has added a new dimension to theme park rides — so what's next for thrill-seekers?

  • Written by: Malcolm Burt, Amusement academic, Queensland University of Technology
imageThe author on a VR waterslide in Germany. Because why not?Malcolm Burt, Author provided

Rollercoasters have come a long way since the theme park rides of old, as thrill-seekers and park operators look for the next big thing.

The trend in the early 2000s was for higher, faster and loopier rides that arguably peaked with the 206km per hour Kingda Ka...

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Why we shouldn't be too quick to blame migratory animals for global disease

  • Written by: Alice Risely, PhD candidate in Ecology, Deakin University

Have you ever got on a flight and the person next to you started sneezing? With 37 million scheduled flights transporting people around the world each year, you might think that the viruses and other germs carried by travellers would be getting a free ride to new pastures, infecting people as they go.

Yet pathogenic microbes are surprisingly bad at...

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Explainer: the seasonal 'calendars' of Indigenous Australia

  • Written by: Alice Gaby, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
imageLalin in Western Australia is 'married turtle season'Brian Gratwicke/Flickr, CC BY

On Wangkumarra land, in the corner-country near the borders of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia, stands an ancient stone arrangement. It has been placed to the side of a huge complex, rivalling Stonehenge, featuring megaliths polished, carved and...

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  1. Three reasons to get your stress levels in check in 2018
  2. Bias creeps into reference checks, so is it time to ditch them?
  3. From sleeping beauty to the frog prince – why we shouldn't ban fairytales
  4. Explainer: the gods behind the days of the week
  5. Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health – it’s up to us
  6. A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills
  7. How facing challenging situations can prepare your child for school
  8. 13 'ye olde' phrases that would be far better in the workplace
  9. New Year’s resolutions for better mental health
  10. The five most anticipated digital games of 2018
  11. #MeTourism: the hidden costs of selfie tourism
  12. Keating's Working Nation plan for jobs was hijacked by bureaucracy: cabinet papers 1994-95
  13. Cabinet papers 1994-95: Keating's climate policy grapples sound eerily familiar
  14. Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Risk
  15. Cabinet papers 1994-95: The Keating government begins to craft its legacy
  16. Cabinet papers 1994-95: How the republic was doomed without a directly elected president
  17. Cabinet papers 1994-95: How a security agreement allayed Australian anxiety over Indonesia
  18. Stay on the couch or go for a run? There's an app that can calculate the bigger risk
  19. Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2018
  20. Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?
  21. China's economic power is actually a lot smaller than you think
  22. 2017: the year in extreme weather
  23. Funding reform for schools and higher education dominated much of the conversation in 2017
  24. AI is learning from our encounters with nature - and that's a concern
  25. Romper Stomper reboot is a compelling investigation into Australia's extremist politics
  26. Your party, our home: the challenges of growing up in a tourist destination
  27. Is mixing drinks actually bad?
  28. You might be Christmassed out, but these Australian birds are festive all year
  29. Why do people with East Asian heritage get flushed after drinking alcohol?
  30. How good draft choices can make or break AFL teams
  31. Before we colonise Mars, let's look to our problems on Earth
  32. How our arts critics saw 2017
  33. Citizenship scandals, same-sex marriage and foreign interference dominate the messy politics of 2017
  34. Don't let your pet accidentally get drunk this silly season (sorry Tiddles)
  35. Far from being in crisis, 2017 was a great year for Australian musical theatre
  36. That time when science came with me on a tropical holiday
  37. Supersized cities: residents band together to push back against speculative development pressures
  38. The key to a vibrant democracy may well lie in your workplace
  39. What data tells us about the best cricket players
  40. Why getting enough sleep should be on your list of New Year's resolutions
  41. How are we doing on early childhood education and care? Good, but there's more to do
  42. QUIZ: do you remember the big health stories of 2017?
  43. Video explainer: Batting expertise and decision-making in cricket
  44. The US election hack, fake news, data theft: the cyber security lessons from 2017
  45. How and why economics is taking over sports
  46. I won't be alone at Christmas, I have a dog
  47. 2017 in film: a return to form for the Hollywood blockbuster
  48. The off-topic Conversation #145
  49. Can you tell fact from fiction? Take The Conversation 2017 FactCheck quiz to find out
  50. Speaking with: social researcher and author Hugh Mackay on 2017, 'a really disturbing year'

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