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Editor's note
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Today we’re excited to launch the first in a fleet of new newsletters from The Conversation Australia, GetFacts. We understand it’s not easy distinguishing between exaggerated news, #FakeNews, and articles that are actually well researched - so let us tell you when you’re at risk of being misled.
Thanks to our model, we’re actually at the forefront of delivering evidence-based, research-backed news (which in turn results in the occasional mythbusting headline). Earlier this week we had two academics pick apart a study on baby wipes. The headlines saying they are a contributor to childhood allergies were plain wrong.
We don’t want you you to miss important information like this, so let us do the hard yards, talk to the experts, see how the evidence stacks up and drop the verdict into your inbox. You can sign up to GetFacts here (you might notice a few other new newsletters on the signup page too, but we’ll tell you about those another day).
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Molly Glassey
Newsletter Editor
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Top story
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An illustration of the two 20-micrometre-wide vibrating drumheads, each composed of trillions of atoms, in an entangled quantum state of motion.
Petja Hyttinen and Olli Hanhirova, ARKH Architects Ltd.
Matt Woolley, UNSW
We usually think of quantum entanglement in the realm of atomic systems, but now it's been scaled up to relatively massive objects. This opens the door to new kinds of technology.
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Health + Medicine
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Siobhan Schabrun, Western Sydney University
We know things like exercise can increase our brain function, but taking a pill would require less effort.
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Jerome Sarris, Western Sydney University; Joe Firth, Western Sydney University
Cannabis use is linked to psychosis, but only a small number of users will experience it.
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Business + Economy
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Hugh Batrouney, Grattan Institute
Australia does need infrastructure to spur growth and support jobs - that idea comes with a big "but".
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Victor Sojo, University of Melbourne; Melissa A. Wheeler, University of Melbourne
That Starbucks will close all US stores for 'unconscious bias training' may seem progressive, but one afternoon training session for staff will not overcome racism in the longer term.
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Politics + Society
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John Blaxland, Australian National University
The incoming Chief of the Defence Force, Angus Campbell, will need to focus his attentions on an array of conventional and non-conventional security concerns in the Indo-Pacific.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Treasurer Scott Morrison will argue that a stronger budget outlook means the increase in the Medicare levy is no longer required.
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Robyn Mayes, Queensland University of Technology
Among all things Anzac, the contribution of women is becoming more complicated and controversial.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Professor Robert Kelly is pessimistic about how much the upcoming Korean summits will achieve this Friday.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Malcolm Turnbull may have lost 31 consecutive Newspolls, but the latest result shows a narrowing between the two major parties, and the Coalition's best performance since September 2016.
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Brad West, University of South Australia; Ayhan Aktar, Istanbul Bilgi University
At Gallipoli this Anzac Day, thousands of Turkish youth will re-enact a march that stopped the Anzac advance in 1915. The march has taken on new significance in Turkey since an attempted coup in 2016.
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Arts + Culture
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Flavia Marcello, Swinburne University of Technology
A walk down Melbourne's streets reveals more commercial street art than the spontaneous politics of years past.
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Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania
During the second world war, a young Aboriginal soldier, Private Clarrie Combo from New South Wales, exchanged mail with Mrs F. C. Brown from Loxton, South Australia — a white woman whom he had never met…
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Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania; Carolyn Philpott, University of Tasmania
A Tasmanian Requiem brings together Western and Aboriginal voices to confront the violence of the state's Black War. It shows what a historical reckoning, and reconciliation, might look and sound like.
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Cities
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Brendan F.D. Barrett, Osaka University
In the 1970s, both Kyoto and Melbourne made fateful decisions about their transport networks. Melbourne today enjoys the benefits of trams, while Kyoto lives with the consequences of losing them.
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Environment + Energy
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Greg Jordan, University of Tasmania; Matilda Brown, University of Tasmania
Trees evolved many times around the world.
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Science + Technology
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Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology
Avengers: Infinity War is the biggest Marvel movie ever with largest cast of superheroes (and villains). So far. But how does the science stack up?
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Anthony Blazevich, Edith Cowan University; Sébastien Ratel, Université Clermont Auvergne
Children’s muscles recover rapidly from high-intensity exercise, and kids can produce repeated exercise efforts when most of us adults continue to feel exhausted.
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