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Editor's note
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If a venomous snake bit you in colonial times, it was difficult to know if the bite or the treatment would kill you first. Treatments like ammonia and strychnine seem barbaric today but made sense at the time. Find out why in Hissstory: how the science of snake bite treatments has changed.
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Gone are the days when we were told to suck out a snake’s venom. So what’s the current treatment and how have treatments changed over time?
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Peter Hobbins, University of Sydney
Snake bite treatments have changed remarkably over the past 200 years. But most, if not all, made sense in their historical context.
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Business + Economy
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Heath McDonald, Swinburne University of Technology; Daniel Lock, Bournemouth University
Ratings across a number of sports are in decline. But this doesn't spell the end of live sport, rather it shows why we should strive to keep it on free TV.
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Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of Queensland
History shows us that narratives play an important role in market behaviour. But new research shows that all it takes is a simple story that matches our preconceived notions.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Investor loans are on the increase again, causing pause for the regulators.
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Environment + Energy
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Ben Henley, University of Melbourne; Andrew King, University of Melbourne; Chris Folland, Met Office Hadley Centre; David Karoly, University of Melbourne; Jaci Brown, CSIRO; Mandy Freund, University of Melbourne
We’re due to cop a hiding from the Pacific Ocean, but we don’t know when.
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Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia
Campaigners in Perth are fighting the destruction of bushland for a new highway. They have two of three historically important factors on their side.
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Education
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John Hattie, University of Melbourne
Our enemy is complacency – blaming the post-codes, fixing the students not the system, and arguing for more resources to continue what is not working.
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Claire Shaw, The Conversation
Academics worldwide are calling for the US president to reconsider the executive order on immigration, which many say is damaging to research collaboration.
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Science + Technology
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Chris Rizos, UNSW; Donald Grant, RMIT University
Australia is always on the move thanks to continental drift which means the mapped coordinates of any place can get out of line with any GPS locating system. So what's the plan to fix it?
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Arts + Culture
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Peter Allen, University of Melbourne
The Riverdale gang have gone from squeaky clean 40s hijinks, to bizarre Punisher cross-overs in the 90s, to a Twin Peaks-lookalike murder mystery today.
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Maryrose Casey, Monash University
A development festival for Indigenous Australian playwrights showcased a range of stories: from the sharply comic tale of a woman hunting for her wayward husband to a powerful exploration of prison violence.
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Politics + Society
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Allan Patience, University of Melbourne
The crisis confronting neoliberal capitalism suggests that its internal contradictions are now undermining its very foundations. What can we expect from a post-neoliberal world?
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
With parliament resuming this week, the first Newspoll of 2017 has the government trailing Labor 46-54% on the two party vote and the Coalition's primary vote falling four points to 35%.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Joe Hockey has met Donald Trump's chief-of-staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon at the White House.
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Lorraine Finlay, Murdoch University
After all of the legal controversies of the past year we have ended up in essentially the same position – the Senate will include a One Nation senator from Western Australia, but not Rod Culleton.
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Shannon Brincat, Griffith University
The origin of tyrannical power is irrelevant: whether by election, inheritance or force, if rulership is oppressive, it is tyrannical. And the way to beat it is deceptively simple: refuse to comply.
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Siobhan McHugh, University of Wollongong; Bronwyn Hinz, Victoria University; Dallas Rogers, University of Sydney; Dominic Kelly, La Trobe University; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Gail Alvares, Telethon Kids Institute; Richard Holden, UNSW; Will J Grant, Australian National University
The Conversation asked eight authors from across its sections to tell us about their favourite podcasts – and why you should tune in.
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Health + Medicine
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Andy Towers, Massey University
Baby boomers might not be boosting their health with a glass or two of alcohol a day after all.
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