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After three years of relentless reform, what lies beyond the election for education?
Sweeping changes to the curriculum, NCEA and school governance have divided the education sector, all while major challenges remain overlooked.
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How porn became so extreme – and how it’s shaping the sex lives of young people
Extreme pornography has become readily available on mainstream porn sites. Listen to expert Clare McGlynn on The Conversation Weekly on what this is doing to the sex lives of young people.
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What if we paid for electricity through taxes, not bills?
Taxation is broadly progressive, while levies on energy bills hit poorest households hardest.
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5 Ontario education unions hold strike votes as cuts squeeze classrooms
The current stall in negotiations follows the government’s indication that it wants greater control over negotiating issues such as staffing redundancies.
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Is sexual objectification hard-wired? Our study used electrical brain stimulation to find out
Flipping photos upside down usually exposes a bias in how we see women’s bodies. A weak current to the forehead made it disappear.
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Corruption in South Africa’s police force is rife: why protecting whistleblowers is vital
When the South African Police Service tolerates retaliation against ethical officers, it weakens the institutional integrity required to confront corruption.
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What animal bones in Malawi teach us about the social lives of people long ago
The bones of animals at an archaeological site in Malawi show that food was scarce over the last 21,000 years, but people didn’t cooperate far and wide to get it.
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How the quantum vacuum perturbs atoms, shrinks black holes and formed our galaxies
From the microscopic structure of particles and atoms, to the fate of black holes and the large-scale structure of the universe, the quantum ‘vacuum’ plays a role.
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Deadlock ahead for Israel as election fails to deliver an alternative to Netanyahu coalition
Stalemate in the Israeli Knesset means Netanyahu is likely to continue as caretaker prime minister.
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Why Donald Trump’s foreign policy could cost Republicans in the midterm elections
Voters say they care about the economy, but many blame Trump’s wars and tariffs for their bills.
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70 years ago the Suez crisis exposed British relative decline. Today, the Iran conflict could be doing the same for the US
Suez showed that Britain had lost the leeway to behave like a superpower.
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Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon
Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.