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    Avoidable deaths caused by fake malaria drugs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/588-avoidable-deaths-caused-by-fake-malaria-drugs
    27 Apr 2018: Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic infection that affects about 3. 2 billion people in 95 countries, has become largely a disease of the young and poor. Due to effective medications like chloroquine and artemisinins, malaria deaths dropped an
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    Captured! Rare ‘glitch’ in a pulsar’s regular pulsing beat

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/576-captured-rare-glitch-in-a-pulsars-regular-pulsing-beat
    11 Apr 2018: Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a “glitch” and I was part of a team that recorded one happening in the Vela Pulsar, with the results
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    Reviving an original Tasmanian language

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/671-reviving-an-original-tasmanian-language
    19 Jul 2018: Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, believed to have been the last Aboriginal person to have survived the Tasmanian genocide. Her demise symbolised the devastating impacts of British
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    Meet the remarkable machines that learn from humans

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/766-meet-the-remarkable-machines-that-learn-from-humans
    27 Aug 2018: Most AI systems depend solely on data analysis, which limits how smart and agile they are. But Tasmanian researchers have enabled computers to learn rapidly from human decision-making, and the impact is being felt around the world. Across the globe,
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    Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/614-why-iceland-is-set-to-resume-whaling-despite-international-opposition
    24 May 2018: Banner image: Whale watching in Husavik, North Iceland, Shutterstock. After a two-year pause in the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) hunt, Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf. will resume whaling this summer, with a government-issued quota. Two
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    What city planners can learn from Hobart’s floods

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/610-what-city-planners-can-learn-from-hobarts-floods
    17 May 2018: Hobart is a city known for its risk of catastrophic fire, such as the devastating wildfires of 1897-98 and 1967. As the second-driest city in Australia, until last week it was easy to forget that Hobart is also vulnerable to serious flooding.
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    Now the real work begins

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/613-now-the-real-work-begins
    24 May 2018: Banner image: Newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will need all the support he can get to enact the changes that Malaysia needs. EPAThe euphoria over the change of government in Malaysia is unlikely to die down soon. In fact, the
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    Why Australia imports so many veggie seeds

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/574-why-australia-imports-so-many-veggie-seeds
    10 Apr 2018: Organic farmers have reacted with alarm to a draft review released last week that recommends mandatory fungicide treatment for certain plant seeds imported into Australia, including broccoli, cauliflower, radish and spinach. Over 19,000 people
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    Your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine’s Day

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/528-your-guilt-free-guide-to-flowers-this-valentines-day
    8 Feb 2018: Valentine’s Day means saying it with flowers. Last year Australians imported more than 5. 22 million rose stems between February 1 and 14, mostly from Kenya. Assuming typical bouquets of 24 roses, that’s 217,500 bouquets sold in two weeks. The
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    Budget policy check: does Australia need personal income tax cuts?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/584-budget-policy-check-does-australia-need-personal-income-tax-cuts
    23 Apr 2018: In this series - Budget policy checks - we look at the government’s justifications for policies likely to be in this year’s budget and measure them up against the evidence. In this piece we look at the need for personal income tax cuts. A large

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