Imagine if you could pay less to see films that are less popular. Dynamic ticket pricing already happens in China – and it’s about to start here in over 100 Australian cinemas.
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The Conversation asked eight authors from across its sections to tell us about their favourite podcasts – and why you should tune in.
Academics worldwide are calling for the US president to reconsider the executive order on immigration, which many say is damaging to research collaboration.
On Trump’s inauguration day, alt-right activist Richard Spencer was punched in the street, on camera. The internet’s reaction to this event raises important moral questions around violence and power.
Historically, pop culture has tended to depict transgender people as objects of comedy or monstrous freaks. But attitudes are changing, as a new novel featuring a transgender child shows.
Rhetoric can tell us a great deal about a person, or a President. Donald Trump’s inaugural address was light (but dark) on metaphors, and full of divisive antitheses.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features sumptuous images: from giant cuttlefish courting to a vertigo-inducing portrait of an orangutan taken with a GoPro camera.
The problem of corruption in tennis is likely to be an ongoing threat. So, it is important that the Tennis Integrity Unit develop into a trusted and convincing anti-corruption team.
The main objections raised to FIFA"s planned expansion of the World Cup are that the decision has been made on financial and/or political rather than footballing grounds.
For over two decades, psychologists and communication scholars have been seriously studying the degree a person is able to correctly understand another’s unsaid thoughts or feelings.
Is providing birds with food and water making them too dependent? Or are gardens just the new frontier of Australia’s urban landscape? New research aims to find out.
The people of Geelong are connecting with their industrial past as the city undergoes a community-led creative transformation.
Want to contemplate some big questions this summer but don’t know where to start? Here are some top picks from some of Australia’s top philosophers.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott was widely reported in the media for remarks he made about the Disability Support Pension (DSP) while being interviewed on radio. This was a few days ago now, and no doubt…
No one said he’d win the Presidency. He has. Many fear that Trump will be a tyrant. Will he be?
Writers from Thucydides to Montesquieu have dissected tyranny. Their words assume new pertinence given these fears, and may cast analytic light on coming events.
A new study has revealed heavy episodic drinking doubles the risk of family and domestic violence.
The expensive things we buy say a lot about our identity, the way we think, and how we feel.
A paper was published and much discussed online recently, which demonstrates all the problems that I - and other critics - have with the way research is done and interpreted in the world of chiropractic…
A new exhibition exploring the relationship between birds and humans is variously gaudy, delightful and disturbing. We sent two ecologists along to review the show.
The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.
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Lecturer, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Cyber Risk and Policy, Deakin University
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PhD Student in Economics, Deakin University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Acting Director the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate - School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
