By Beyhan Farhadi, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Equity, University of Toronto
When tragedies occur, governments and schools face intense pressure to act, and urgency can produce policies that signal control without a plan to evaluate their impact.
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By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
Katherine Warwick, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University
There’s little worse as a pool lifeguard than hearing the words “code brown” come through your radio. For swimmers on a hot day, there’s also little worse than being told to immediately get out of the water because there’s poo floating in the pool.
During hot summers, public pools in Australia are often crowded with families and children. The risk of “code brown” incidents at your local pool is probably substantial.
So how is a public pool cleaned after poo or vomit accidentally ends up in the water – and how long before it’s safe to get back in?
The short…
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By Angela Schneider, Director, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University
Alan C Oldham, PhD Student, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortona d'Ampezzo in northern Italy feature eight new medal events and one new official sport: ski mountaineering, or “skimo.”
It’s an endurance sport in which athletes ascend mountains on skis fitted with climbing skins, carry their skis over sections too steep to skin and then descend on alpine terrain. In total, 36 skimo athletes will compete at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio.
The…
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By Scott Duncan, Professor of Population Health, Auckland University of Technology
Melody Smith, Professor of Health Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Play is often treated as something we grow out of, yet evidence shows playfulness remains vital for adult wellbeing. Rethinking our spaces could help bring it back.
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By Hal Pawson, Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW Sydney
Social housing is being built at the fastest pace since the 1980s. But we are still leaving hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for a home.
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By Caroline Gurvich, Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist, Monash University
Eveline Mu, Research Fellow in Women's Mental Health, Monash University
Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
The idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain is more than half a century old. The reality is more complex.
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By Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
Private companies selling ‘intelligence as a service’ are changing the face of intelligence and how private and personal data is used.
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By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Even before the film’s release, the costumes for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights caused controversy.
Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 and the story switches back and forth in time between 1801 and the 1770s. But Cathy’s wedding dress references an entirely different era, inspired by a 1951 Charles James haute couture gown. Cathy…
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By Kevin Foster, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
Shot, stabbed, poisoned with frog toxin – a new book reveals how the killing of political opponents has emerged from the shadows of government secrecy.
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By Stephanie Kivlin, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
Aimee Classen, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Lara A. Souza, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
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