Editor's note
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This week we asked our experts to name their favourite albums, but now it’s over to you.
By numbers Pink Floyd is undoubtedly your favourite artist, with Dark Side of the Moon coming out on top. Many of you wrote in with lovely stories of your encounters with cherished albums.
Thank you for all your contributions and passionate opinions, and happy listening.
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James Whitmore
Editor, Arts + Culture
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Arts + Culture
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Beyoncé in the music video for Sorry, from Lemonade.
Screenshot from Youtube
James Whitmore, The Conversation
From The Smith to Kendrick Lamar, Conversation readers tell us their favourite albums.
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A Victorian AIDS Council volunteer training weekend in Kyneton Victoria, 1987.
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
Shirleene Robinson, Macquarie University
The AIDS crisis arrived in Australia in 1982 and triggered an enormous (and successful) public health response, largely driven by volunteers. These people, often from marginalised communities in their own right, deserve recognition in Australia's proud volunteer tradition.
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Science + Technology
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Two Stanford researchers used a deep neural network to detect sexuality from profile pictures on a US dating website.
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Colin Klein, Macquarie University
We have far more to worry about from outdated science that embodies dubious prejudices than we do from deep learning networks.
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The Joides Resolution.
Tim Fulton
Rupert Sutherland, Victoria University of Wellington
We have better maps of the moon than Earth's newest continent, Zealandia. That's about to change as an international expedition probes the vast undersea plateau of continental crust.
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Politics + Society
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Rebel Wilson leaves the Victorian Supreme Court after winning her case on June 15.
AAP/David Crosling
David Rolph, University of Sydney; Michael Douglas, University of Sydney
Rebel Wilson's large damages award for defamation is a salutary lesson that defaming a celebrity with an international profile can lead to a substantial payout for the economic harm done.
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The latest reforms will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
AAP/Dean Lewins
Tim Dwyer, University of Sydney
The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
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Education
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As a community we need proactive, positive strategies to reduce youth self-harm and suicide.
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Sarah Stanford, Macquarie University
Youth suicide has reached a ten year high, but suicide and self-harm are still taboo topics in schools.
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It appears that whatever factors are constraining genetic potential among less well-off students in the US do not exert a similar influence in Australia.
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Brian Byrne, University of New England; Katrina Grasby, University of New England; Richard Olson, University of Colorado; William Coventry, University of New England
In the US, differences in school results among poorer children depend more on environment than genes. In Australia, the story is different.
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Business + Economics
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A parliamentary committee has recommended a number of protections for whistleblowers.
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A J Brown, Griffith University
We need to reform whistleblower protections if we want them to help maintain the integrity of government, business and non-profits.
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This court case has potential ramifications for every poker machine in Australia.
AAP
Cristy Clark, Southern Cross University
A court case against a poker machine manufacturer and casino operator could set a precedent for every poker machine in Australia.
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Health + Medicine
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Sure it tastes nice, but what else can it do?
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Nural Cokcetin, University of Technology Sydney; Shona Blair
Manuka honey has a lot of evidence-based benefits, and a lot of rubbish claims too.
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People with tuberculosis were confined in specialised hospitals called sanatoria.
Interior of open air ward for tuberculosis patients 1918./ US. National Library of Medicine
Rebecca Le Get, La Trobe University
Tuberculosis has had a significant impact on the world, from influencing fashion trends to helping understand how the human body works.
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Cities
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Cities and their residents’ needs in public space have changed, but the type and function of the furniture are stuck in the past.
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Christian Tietz, UNSW
With cities becoming more dense and housing more crowded, people rely more than ever on well-designed public spaces, so why hasn't the furniture changed with the times?
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A house and land on the River Derwent, Tasmania, 1822.
National Library of Australia
Imogen Wegman, University of Tasmania
The egalitarian myth behind the great Australian dream of home ownership is at odds with the first rules of land granting in the colonies. Even then, property ownership depended on wealth and status.
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Environment + Energy
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Clouds over Australia’s Davis Research Station, containing ice particles that activate ozone-depleting chemicals, triggering the annual ozone hole.
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Andrew Klekociuk, University of Tasmania; Paul Krummel, CSIRO
The treaty to limit the destruction of the ozone layer is hailed as the most successful environmental agreement of all time. Three decades on, the ozone layer is slowly but surely returning to health.
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Tampa residents take a rare chance for a stroll on the seabed.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Darrell Strauss, Griffith University
Pictures of ocean bays emptied of water as Hurricane Irma moved through the Caribbean and Florida show that storm surges can move away from the coast, as well as onto it.
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Featured jobs
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