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Editor's note
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You may have missed it, but the past week there’s been a bit of a hullabaloo in Canberra. Our Politics + Society team hit the publish button pretty hard this past week, and hopefully you’ve kept up with the excellent expert analysis coming out of the section. But today we thought we’d pull together some of the other stories you might have missed this week, including a very important piece on Russia’s online influence on Australian voters. New evidence shows the infamous Russian “troll factory”, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), targeted Australian users on social media using the hashtags #Auspol and #MH17. In this piece, UNSW’s Tom Sear and
University of Canberra’s Dr Michael Jensen break down how exactly trolls did this, and it makes for a fascinating read.
On a side note, and one that might be relevant if you’re going to an airport or the cinema this weekend, we went on a mission to find out just why female toilet queues are always longer than the men’s. Turns out there are a few reasons. Including that men spend, on average, around 60 seconds in the toilet, while women spend 90.
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Molly Glassey
Newsletter Editor
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Top story
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Network map of accounts within #auspol tweets mentioning or linking to Russian propaganda outlets, Sputnik and RT, May 4 – July 30, 2018.
Tom Sear, UNSW; Michael Jensen, University of Canberra
A lot of attention has been focused on Russia’s efforts to influence American politics, but Australia has also been a target – and continues to be a target – of covert foreign influence.
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Cities
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Lisel O'Dwyer, Flinders University
Men spend, on average, around 60 seconds in a toilet, while women spend 90. This is for many reasons, including biology. This leads to a bottleneck that keeps women waiting around to use the loo.
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Colin Caprani, Monash University
Australian bridges are generally safe, but we don't have transparent information about how often they're inspected or maintained.
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Environment + Energy
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Sarah Graham, University of Sydney
It's time Australian states took a lesson from US states when it comes to working around obstructive federal climate change policies.
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Sophie Lewis, UNSW; Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, UNSW
With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, our leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.
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Science + Technology
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Claudio Bozzi, Deakin University
Australia was once at the forefront of RPAS regulation, but we now trail other jurisdictions – and we’re alarmingly misaligned with international best practice.
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Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide
No country can lay claim to sovereignty over a planet, moon or rocky body. But in the absence of clear laws regulating mining in space, it's a case of first in, best dressed for resource extraction.
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Arts + Culture
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M. Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington; Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University; Carolina Miranda, Victoria University of Wellington
Food is an increasingly popular ingredient in crime fiction, serving up insights into the character of the detective hero and adding spice to the mystery.
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Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Monash University
There is nothing new about a shoe fetish. Fairy tales have long featured amazing, high-tech footwear: from seven-league boots to glass slippers to red shoes.
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Business + Economy
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Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of Queensland
Our revolving door prime ministers are the result of the politicians being too responsive to what we think, and there being too few of them.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Immigration and light rail are both worthy topics of discussion, but it's time to discuss a new monetary policy framework.
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Health + Medicine
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Merlin Thomas, Monash University
We've all experienced that tense pain in our heads when we're withdrawing from caffeine. But why?
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Simon Phipps, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute; Md. Al Amin Sikder, The University of Queensland
More kids these days have asthma, and more people in the Western world, so do we know what causes it in the first place?
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Education
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Ameneh Shahaeian, Australian Catholic University
Reading styles vary in effectiveness. Here are six things you can do, based on research, to help your child get the most out of shared reading.
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Mike Archer, UNSW
According to our 32-year longitudinal study of first year science students, belief in creationism has declined over time.
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