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Friday essay: monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths

  • Written by: Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageMount Mazama, a volcano in Oregon. Indigenous stories preserve tales of its eruption more than 7,000 years ago. Shutterstock.com

So you think the Loch Ness Monster never existed? That the story is a cunningly cobbled-together fiction intended to boost tourist interest in an otherwise unrelentingly dull (only to some) part of mid-Scotland? Think...

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It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage

  • Written by: Murray Ross Hall, PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Science, The University of Queensland
imageA farmer harvests cotton in Maharashtra, India.Shutterstock

If we really care about protecting the people who make the things we wear and use, we need to raise wages for workers in supply chains to above the poverty line. Our research shows that this only requires a 20 cent increase in the Australian retail price for a T-shirt made in India.

This...

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Looking beyond the sandstone: universities reinvent campuses to bring together town and gown

  • Written by: Bree Trevena, PhD Researcher, Research Unit in Public Cultures, University of Melbourne
imageRMIT University transformed the look and function of its city campus as part of its New Academic Street project.Tess Kelly, Author provided

Curtin University has a redevelopment plan to transform 114 hectares of its Bentley campus in Perth into a “city of innovation”. Its stated vision is to provide an “urban context that supports...

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Losing weight is hard, but it's not any harder if you have type 2 diabetes

  • Written by: Andrew Brown, Professor and Head, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW
imageMedications to help with type 2 diabetes have been associated with weight gain.from shutterstock.com

A study has found weight loss could reverse type 2 diabetes. The UK clinical trial showed that 46% of people on a low-calorie diet for 12 months were able to stop their type 2 diabetes medications.

This confirms a position outlined in a previous...

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  1. Sustainable shopping: how to buy tuna without biting a chunk out of the oceans
  2. How parents and teens can reduce the impact of social media on youth well-being
  3. We have marriage equality, now we need LGBTQi+-inclusive sexuality education in schools
  4. Grattan on Friday: Bill Shorten faces a summer of uncertainty
  5. Flood of same-sex weddings in January, after historic parliamentary vote
  6. Australia has finally achieved marriage equality, but there's a lot more to be done on LGBTI rights
  7. What is meningococcal disease and what are the options for vaccination?
  8. Barbara and the Camp Dogs turns pub theatre into an impassioned call to listen to Indigenous Australians
  9. Why digital apps can be good gifts for young family members
  10. Explainer: how lending startups like Afterpay make their money
  11. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on new foreign interference laws
  12. Would you buy a theatre ticket for someone who can't afford it? Now you can
  13. Nationals elect Bridget McKenzie as new deputy
  14. A new species of marsupial lion tells us about Australia's past
  15. New foreign interference laws will compound risks to whistleblowers and journalists
  16. Drought on the Murray River harms ocean life too
  17. What happened to the price of Bitcoin? The truth behind big bubbles and crashes
  18. Ban on foreign political donations is both too broad and too narrow, and won't fix our system
  19. Travelling these holidays? Follow tips the Socceroos use to conquer jet lag
  20. They know where you go: dockless bike sharing looms as the next disruptor – if key concerns are fixed
  21. From 'demented' to 'person with dementia': how and why the language of disability changed
  22. Children have strokes too and doctors often miss them. New guidelines will help
  23. Out of character: how acting puts a mental strain on performers
  24. High Court to rule on two Labor MPs, but partisan row protects others
  25. Russia's humiliating ban from the Winter Olympics is the right move to protect integrity in sport
  26. International study shows many Australian children are still struggling with reading
  27. Bali's Mt Agung eruption shows how businesses should and shouldn't react to uncontrollable events
  28. My favourite album: Miles Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson
  29. I've got varicose veins. What can I do about them?
  30. Near enough may not be good enough as parliament's dual citizenship crisis deepens
  31. A new approach to regional higher education is essential to our economic future
  32. How the excuse of 'pure fantasy' works in online child sex abuse cases
  33. Green groups and charities could be collateral damage in government's foreign donation ban
  34. People love parklets, and businesses can help make them happen
  35. What makes us sign up to subscription boxes
  36. From Oregon to Belgium to Victoria – the different ways suffering patients are allowed to die
  37. China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world
  38. Still counting: why the visual arts must do better on gender equality
  39. Curious Kids: Where does the oxygen come from in the International Space Station, and why don’t they run out of air?
  40. Ten things Australia can do to be a human rights hero
  41. Speaking with: Emrys Westacott on the virtue of frugal living
  42. New blow for Labor as David Feeney hits citizenship hurdle
  43. What consumers need from the ACCC inquiry into Google and Facebook
  44. Sydney's stadiums debate shows sport might not be the political winner it once was
  45. How Australia can help reform higher education in India
  46. Pinchgut's Poppea plays hedonism, violence and passion to the hilt
  47. Amazon's track record may signal a change in Australian industrial relations
  48. Thinking of taking opioids for low back pain? Here's what you need to know
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