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Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same
State spending has remained high despite public demands for greater fiscal discipline.
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Helping their friends to read can boost children’s attainment
Children receive support from their partner throughout the session, with their teacher monitoring the interactions in the class.
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Citizenship education: primary school children are already able to think politically
Children are already thinking about power and whose voices get heard.
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How high can a volcano throw lava up in the air?
Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
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World Cup: why are left-footers like Messi so valuable in soccer?
Selectors look not just for fitness, movement and cognitive skills, but also for left-footedness – this trait has enormous strategic value on the pitch.
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This tiny Australian spider uses a high-powered web catapult to trap and eat aggressive ants
The ballista spider only feeds on extremely fierce green tree ants – so it has evolved sophisticated tools to safely catch its prey.
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Guide to the classics: Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams gave us psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s 800-page book on dreams introduced a new way of thinking about the mind that reverberated through the 20th century.
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Trump doesn’t own the government – even though he acts as if Congress is not his equal in constitutional power and authority
In President Donald Trump’s public language, Congress rarely appears as a coequal branch of government. It appears as an obstacle, an audience, a pressure point, a rubber stamp or an...
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House of the Dragon: four real historic women who inspired the show
Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and legitimacy in House of the Dragons has roots in conflicts that shaped real history.
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The mistakes that sealed Keir Starmer’s fate
And the successes he failed to communicate.