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No RBA rate cut yet, but Governor Bullock is about to find the pressure overwhelming

Who’d want to be Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock? On Tuesday she had to do the almost impossible: defend a decision not to cut interest rates at a time when they were being cut in just about every other major industrial nation.

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Sri Lankans throw out old guard in election upset: What nation’s new Marxist-leaning leader means for economy, IMF loans

Sri Lankans voted for a new direction in leadership on Sept. 22, 2024, electing a leftist anti-poverty campaigner as president of the South Asian nation.

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Our 24-hour climate comic explores what a sustainable future could look like

It’s hard to imagine what a sustainable future might really look like. In early June, during one of the wettest starts to a summer any of us can remember, we created a climate comic over a 24-hour period to experiment with solutions-focused ideas about creating a sustainable future.

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College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be

In his new book, “Degrees of Risk: Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education,” sociology professor Blake R. Silver examines some of many ways that college students can slip through the cracks at public colleges and universities. In the following QA with The Conversation U.S., Silver expounds on what…

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OpenAI’s data hunger raises privacy concerns

Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety standards for developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models. This was a change of posture for the company, whose chief executive Sam Altman has previously spoken in support of AI regulation.

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A new blue carbon map of the UK gives mud new meaning

I recently spent a sunny morning aboard Falcon Spirit, a University of Plymouth research vessel. As the boat motored along the south Devon coast, I spoke to Joan Edwards, director of marine policy for The Wildlife Trusts, about some exciting new research that maps blue carbon habitats in UK seas.

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A lonely and ancient plant needs a female partner and researchers are using drones and AI to find it – podcast

The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in a South African forest.

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Research nation: whisper it, Europe still sometimes looks to the UK

Getting into a taxi with a stranger at 11pm could have been an awkward experience. Especially when the journey ahead was due to take one-and-a-half hours. Fortunately, when I arrived at Pisa airport last week and jumped into a car to be driven to Siena by Riccardo Chiantini, sitting next…

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Intoxication nation: a double shot of US history

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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Monitoring the health of lakes through the microbes that live in them

A lake is much more than a body of water where we bask on sunny summer days. It’s also more than just a source of fresh water surrounded with nature and tranquility.

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Cosmology in crisis? A new series from The Conversation

If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and felt a sense of awe at the enormity and mystery of the universe, you’re not alone. We humans are curious animals, but understandably focused on our day-to-day existence.

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Ukraine recap: big challenges ahead of winter for Zelensky as European far-right push Russian agenda

It’s not long to winter, and this is going to be another tough one for Ukrainians. The war continues, but allied support is fraying. This week Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and British foreign secretary David Lammy made a joint visit to Kyiv, after holding a joint press conference…

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Online public shaming of women athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics highlights gender-based violence

Social media is well recognized as beneficial because it can enhance connections and serve as a forum to discuss important issues. But it’s also a platform for the dissemination of misinformation, hostile views and hate.

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Free school meals are on the rise in the US − but that could change depending on who wins the 2024 presidential election

Should all U.S. public school students be able to eat breakfast and lunch at no cost, regardless of their family’s income? The federal government temporarily made that possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, some states have taken it upon themselves to make it happen on a permanent basis. The…

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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024: André Dao breaks rules and witnesses uncomfortable truths

André Dao’s debut novel Anam (Penguin Random House) has just won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, worth A$80,000. This follows its shortlisting for this year’s Miles Franklin Award.

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Why mpox in Africa was ignored for too long and children are dying as a result – podcast

An epidemic of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is spreading quickly, particularly among young children. At least 20,000 people are known to be infected in the country, and more than 600 people have died, more than two thirds of them children. Cases have begun to appear…

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A college course that’s a history of the future

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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The emotional toll of dating apps and why they’re no longer about finding love – podcast

Dating apps are having a rocky moment. In February, Bumble said it would lay off 30% of its workforce after disappointing results in 2023. Match Group, which has struggled to maintain paying subscribers for its most popular app, Tinder, in recent years, announced plans to cut 6% of its global…

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Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong

When most of us think about politics, we think of different views as sitting on a spectrum. Left wing is at one end, right wing at the other. We all, therefore, sit somewhere on this straight line in the way we view the world.

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Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiraling out of control – here's why that's so dangerous

Belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem. This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist.

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Research nation(s): Fulbright fellows consider the power of science communication

Maria Balinska is one of the founders of The Conversation in the United States and served as our editor there for four years. Now, she is the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, based in London, and overseeing the body’s work that takes post-graduates in the US and the…

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What’s a recession – and how can we tell if we’re in one?

This article is part of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance.

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The Greens want a super-profits tax. Labor and business used to like the idea too

When the Greens proposed an extra super-profits tax on the excessive part of really excessive profits last week, business and the government acted as if the sky was about to fall in.

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Victory for women’s rights in Ghana as affirmative action law is passed – what must happen next

The passage of the Affirmative Action (Gender Equality) Bill by the country’s parliament on 9 August 2024 marked a victory for women’s rights in Ghana. The bill, which has been years in the making, is the result of several actors, allies and activists lobbying and protesting for over a decade.…

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