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Editor's note
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Are you an “haitch” or “aitch” person? Many of us can remember being pulled up as kids for saying “haitch”, when “aitch” was considered the more “educated” pronunciation. But as linguist Kate Burridge writes, saying “haitch” makes much more sense linguistically, and would help children to learn language more easily. ‘ow’s that for a conversation starter?
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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“Aitch” or “Haitch”? It’s long been a point of contestation among English speakers.
Felicity Burke/The Conversastion with apologies to Dr. Suess
Kate Burridge, Monash University; Catherine McBride, Chinese University of Hong Kong
An unspoken class war has long been waged around the pronounciation of the letter "h" - is it haitch or aitch? Despite a snobbish leaning to the latter, haitch makes more sense.
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Arts + Culture
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Jeremy Patrick, University of Southern Queensland
Around 14% of Australians identify as spiritual. It is time they were given the same rights as those belonging to organised religions.
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Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania; Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology
Kate Spade has been found dead in New York, age 55. Her handbags, first released in the early-1990s, introduced young professional women to affordable luxury.
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Cities
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Tanya Latty, University of Sydney
Insects aren't known for having big brains, and slime moulds and fungi don't have any. So how do they solve challenges that test the ingenuity of human transport engineers?
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Science + Technology
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Michael Cowling, CQUniversity Australia; James Birt
With these changes, it feels like Apple is finally acknowledging the new type of digital native they’ve created, and considering how to help them live a balanced life.
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Heather Handley, Macquarie University
Important points about volcanoes: location matters, explosiveness can be predicted to an extent, and fast-moving flows of volcanic materials (known as pyroclastic flows) are deadly.
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Health + Medicine
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Clare Collins, University of Newcastle; Li Kheng Chai, University of Newcastle; Tracy Burrows, University of Newcastle
Monkey see, monkey do: it's important to be a good food role model.
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Andrea Phelps, University of Melbourne
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Education
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Sue Thomson, Australian Council for Educational Research
Australian students, on average, reported a poorer sense of belonging at school than the OECD average. But issues with sense of belonging aren't distributed evenly across the population.
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Rebecca Cairns, Deakin University
Australia has been having the same disagreement about what and how history should be taught. We need to move on and listen to the evidence so our children have the best history education possible.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The government has extended by a year the time it is giving exporters with old ships to continue with sub-standard conditions for sheep carried to the Middle East.
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Katrina Lee-Koo, Monash University; Hannah Jay, Monash University
More than half of girls in South Sudan are married before the age of 18. Endemic conflict and food shortages are only exacerbating the problem.
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Environment + Energy
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Julie Snorek, Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Environmental Justice Atlas highlights the most pertinent findings of environmental conflicts facing the world today.
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