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The off-topic Conversation #143

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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You should never drive into floodwater – some roads are more deadly than others

  • Written by: Andrew Gissing, Director Resilience, Macquarie University

The floods that deluged parts of Victoria over the weekend are the latest in the state’s long history of flooding, following on from major floods in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016. In all such events, emergency services are on standby to rescue motorists who drive into floodwaters and get stuck or washed away – with potentially fatal...

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Yes, SA's battery is a massive battery, but it can do much more besides

  • Written by: Dylan McConnell, Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne

Last Friday, the “world’s largest” lithium-ion battery was officially opened in South Australia. Tesla’s much anticipated “mega-battery” made the “100 days or it’s free” deadline, after a week of testing and commissioning.

Unsurprisingly, the project has attracted a lot of attention, both in...

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The horror and pleasure of misused words: from mispronunciation to malapropisms

  • Written by: Roslyn Petelin, Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
image'I want to be effluent': malapropisms and mispronounced words were a regular gag in the TV comedy Kath and Kim and continue to peeve many people today.AAP

American film director Judd Apatow once confessed to Stephen Colbert that he’d been mispronouncing his wife Leslie Mann’s name for nearly two decades. He’d been saying...

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