Fiction Can Change The World: Five Books That Made A Difference

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Activist Jack Monroe recently used Terry Pratchett's–boots theory– to explain the vicious circle for people on low incomes only being able to afford clothing that ...
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Tampa, Bali Bombings, 9/11 And The Kyoto Protocol: Today's Cabinet Paper Release Shows What Worried Australia In 2002

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Every year, the National Archives of Australia releases the cabinet records from 20 years earlier, and this year's batch is out today. This release, from the cabinet ...
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Going To Private School Won't Make A Difference To Your Kid's Academic Scores

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In Australia, around 30% of primary and 40% of secondary school children attend a private , or independent, school. School fees vary widely, depending on the type of ...
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Ancient Rome Didn't Have Specific Domestic Violence Legislation But The Laws They Had Give Us A Window Into A World Of Abuse

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Readers are advised this story includes depictions of domestic violence and violence against women. Domestic violence was endemic in the Roman world. Rome was a ...
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Pope Benedict XVI: A Man At Odds With The Modern World Who Leaves A Legacy Of Intellectual Brilliance And Controversy

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Benedict XVI leaves behind a complex legacy as a Pope and theologian. To many observers, Benedict was known for criticizing what he saw as the modern world's rejection ...
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Five Ways To Avoid Pain And Injury When Starting A New Exercise Regime

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Getting in the habit of exercising isn't easy. Not only is finding the time to exercise a major deterrent for people, the fear of aches, pain and injuries is also a ...
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South Africa's Estuaries Face A Growing Threat From Pollution: We Took A Close Look At Four

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In the popular imagination, estuaries don't have the prestige or the romanticism of their two constituent parts: the rivers that feed them with freshwater from one side, ...
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Curious Kids: Do All Animals Have Belly Buttons?

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Do live-born lizards have belly buttons, and do live-born reptiles have an umbilical cord? – Gaelle, aged 12, Bristol, UK What an interesting question! A belly ...
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Why Aren't Children Allowed To Vote? An Expert Debunks The Arguments Against

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Most people think democracy is something that adults do and regard the prospect of children voting as too silly to even contemplate. In the early 20th century, many ...
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The Semiconductor Chip Glut

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) 3dmentat / Deposit Photos In his podcast addressing the markets today, Louis Navellier offered the following commentary. Table of Contents show 1. ev irony 2. higher ...
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Afrobeats In 2022: Global Mobility, Election Songs, Placemaking Albums And Tems

(MENAFN - The Conversation) More than nollywood films, afrobeats is arguably Nigeria's strongest cultural export since the turn of the millennium. It is a hugely dynamic music category that ...
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Black Snow, A New Pacy Murder Mystery, Addresses The Complicated Legacy Of Slavery In Australia

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In 1994, the Australian federal government finally extended recognition to Australian South Sea Islander people as a distinct cultural group. This recognition was ...
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Rethinking The Big Spring Clean Chuck-Out Frenzy: How Keeping Old Things Away From The Landfill Can 'Spark Joy' In Its Own Way

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Driving home recently, I encountered a familiar sight: four dining chairs on the kerb waiting for some sucker to rescue them. Loading them into the car (sucker!) I ...
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Why Rituals Have Been Crucial For Humans Throughout History And Why We Still Need Them

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Each December, Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, among others, take over our thoughts and our wallets as we participate in ceremonies our ancestors have practised for as ...
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How Putin's War And Small Islands Are Accelerating The Global Shift To Clean Energy, And What To Watch For In 2023

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is looking ...
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Betting On Female Jockeys Can Bring Greater Rewards But It's Not All Good News

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The bookmaker (nearly) always wins, as the adage goes. But if you want to tip the balance in your favour, look to female riders. Gamblers' biases have created a ...
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Is There A 'Right To Disobey'? From The Vietnam War To Today's Climate Protests

(MENAFN - The Conversation) One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labour government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their beliefs . Their crime had been refusal ...
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We're Getting Really Good At Making Alcohol-Free Beer And Wine. Here's How It's Done

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Drinking alcohol has been part of Australian culture for at least 240 years , and perhaps millennia prior . In recent years, however, there's been a growing trend ...
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These Were The 10 Favorite Hedge Fund Stocks In Q3 2022

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) solarseven / Deposit Photos Hedge funds are known to be smart investors; thus, many equity investors are always eager to know what stocks they are investing in. Information on ...
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Curious Kids: Why Doesn't The Rainbow Have Black, Brown And Grey In It?

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Why doesn't the rainbow have colours like black, brown and grey in it? – Ivy, aged four, Kent, UK Many of us have seen rainbows in the sky once the sun starts shining ...
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The Breakout That's REALLY Important For Gold

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) scanrail / Deposit Photos Since the gold market now shows parallels to 2008 and 2013, what can we expect if the correction has just ended? The USDX's Breakout The changes that ...
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How Democrats Won The West

(MENAFN - The Conversation) u.s. sen. catherine cortez masto's win in Nevada guaranteed that Democrats would retain control of the Senate after the 2022 midterm elections. It also confirmed the ...
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Genoa, An Example On How To Rethink Cultural Heritage And Urban Sustainability

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Urban planning has a long history, stretching back to Ancient Greece and even mesopotamia . Many centuries later, Europe finally caught up with the idea when Genoa ...
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Terrorist Recruitment Now Happens Mainly Online Which Makes Offenders Easier To Catch

(MENAFN - The Conversation) It is notoriously difficult to work out how and why someone becomes a terrorism risk. While attacks cause immense pain and suffering, the actual number of terrorist ...
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COVID Drugs: The UK's Treatment And Prevention Options And How Vulnerable People Are Being Forgotten

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In February 2022, the UK government abandoned its remaining pandemic restrictions in favour of–living with covid–. This approach relies largely on vaccines protecting ...
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View From The Hill: Rudd Is Highly Qualified For Washington, But Might Find The Diplomatic Corset Constricting

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In appointing Kevin Rudd as ambassador to the United States, Anthony Albanese is sending someone with all the qualifications, and more, for what is a highly demanding ...
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Emily In Paris: Why It's So Hard To Admit Love For The Show Despite It Being So Popular

(MENAFN - The Conversation) A guilty pleasure . A hate watch . A brain vacation . Open most reviews of the Netflix original series Emily in Paris, now on its third season, and it's likely that at ...
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Why Some People Choose To Live The Nomadic Van Lifestyle

(MENAFN - The Conversation) As the movie nomadland revealed to the world, ever since the 2008 financial collapse, people have moved into vehicles as a way of surviving the high cost of living. The ...
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Climate Change Fuelling Cholera Surge: WHO

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) AFP Geneva: Climate change is fuelling a global cholera upsurge, the WHO said on Friday, warning the situation was compounded by vaccine shortages and will only worsen ...
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NASA Launches Satellite For Landmark Study Of Earth's Water

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) AFP Washington: A satellite lifted off on Friday from California on a mission to survey nearly all bodies of water on Earth, offering key insights on how they influence or ...
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A Hat Trick Of Essential Reads To Accompany The World Cup Final

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Soccer fans are just 90 minutes of action away from knowing who will lift the World Cup and be crowned the beautiful game's global champs. Well, given the refereeing ...
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Gold Has Already Started To Run

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) scanrail / Deposit Photos For weekend reading, Ivan Martchev, investment strategist at Navellier & Associates, offers the following commentary: Over long periods of time, gold ...
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Interest Rates: Why Your Mortgage Payments Are Going Up But Your Savings Aren't And How Better Monetary Policy Could Help

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The Bank of England, the UK's central bank, has raised its main interest rate by 0.5% to 3.5%. This is the ninth in a series of increases over the past year that have ...
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Why Wellcome Closed Its Medicine Man Exhibition And Others Should Follow Suit

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In November the Wellcome Collection closed their Medicine Man gallery. In a twitter thread , they acknowledged that–the display still perpetuates a version of medical ...
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Festive Bulge: Scientists Offer Advice On How To Beat Overeating

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Christmas and New Year are holidays with dietary excesses that many of us cannot control. This often leads to the–festive bulge–. As the holidays approach, could there ...
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Labor's Promised Universities Accord Could Be A Turning Point For Higher Education In Australia

(MENAFN - The Conversation) This essay is longer than our usual articles, so please set aside a little extra time to read and enjoy. Australian higher education could arrive at a turning point in ...
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Deep Recession Fears Rise In UK As Boe Delivers Another Rate Hike

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) sborisov / Deposit Photos Fears that the Bank of England is driving the uk economy into a deep recession are growing, despite the central bank voting in favour of a more ...
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The Christmas Tree Is A Tradition Older Than Christmas

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? Strapping a fir tree ...
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Cumbrian Coal: The 18Th-Century Poem That Perfectly Encapsulated Whitehaven's Mining Culture

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The debates waged over the opening of the woodhouse colliery in Whitehaven, Cumbria, have laid bare starkly different views about the steps the UK should take to honour ...
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Many Kenyans Have Embraced Vigilante Cops An Ineffective Police Force Is To Blame

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In march 2017 , Ahmed Rashid, a Kenyan police officer, shot and killed two unarmed teenagers accused of theft. They had surrendered and were lying on the ground in a ...
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Bankman-Fried Charged By SEC With Scheme To Defraud Investors

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Reuters New York: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday with defrauding investors in what regulators called 'a ...
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Can You Name A Single Character From Avatar? What Is A 'Forgotbuster' And Is Avatar One Of Them?

(MENAFN - The Conversation) James Cameron's Avatar 2: The Way of Water, is released worldwide today. It's the long-awaited sequel to Avatar (2009), also directed by Cameron, and has cost an ...
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TB Is Once Again The Deadliest Disease In Africa - What Went Wrong

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Effective tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been available for the past 60 years. But TB remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. It ranks above ...
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'It's Like Being In A Warzone' A&E Nurses Open Up About The Emotional Cost Of Working On The NHS Frontline

(MENAFN - The Conversation) As nurses prepare to strike for the first time, an A&E nurse and lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare writes about the stress, fear, grief and guilt they ...
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An Indigenous Voice To Parliament Will Not Give 'Special Rights' Or Create A Veto

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The Constitutional Expert Group, appointed to advise on the proposed Voice to Parliament referendum, has concluded that the–draft amendment is constitutionally sound– ...
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Natural Gas Prices Are Rising

(MENAFN - ValueWalk) lightpoet / Deposit Photos In his podcast addressing the markets today, Louis Navellier offered the following commentary. If you wish to listen to this commentary, please ...
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No, The Lensa AI App Technically Isn't Stealing Artists' Work But It Will Majorly Shake-Up The Art World

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The Lensa photo and video editing app has shot into social media prominence in recent weeks, after adding a feature that lets you generate stunning digital portraits of ...
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Joe Biden Is Meeting African Leaders - Why Free Trade Is A Major Talking Point

(MENAFN - The Conversation) African leaders face a dilemma over trade relations with the United States. Should they push for the extension of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) or for ...
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Word From The Hill: 2022 Retrospective, And A Look At 2023

(MENAFN - The Conversation) As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes–Word from The Hill–, where she discusses the news with members of The ...
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Queensland Shootings Highlight Increase In Anti-Police Sentiment Around The World

(MENAFN - The Conversation) In an horrific incident on Monday night, two police officers and a member of the public were fatally shot in an ambush attack in Queensland. Another two officers were ...
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