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  Syrian refugee entrepreneurs thrive in camp

  A sweet shop inside Zaatari, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, is among the thriving businesses set up in Jordan by those fleeing war across the border, writes Earshot's Amy Guttman.

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  Deakin University gags staff over harassment case

  A "culture of silence" allows academics who display unacceptable behaviour to move between universities without their new employers being aware of their history, a whistleblower says.

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  Why do books smell the way they do?

  Books, new and old, have a particular smell, but what we call that 'new book smell' isn't always the same from book to book or even from publisher to publisher, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.

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  Faroe Islands divided over whaling tradition

  Every year for over a thousand years, hundreds of pilot whales have been rounded up, cornered and slaughtered by hand on the beaches of the Faroe Islands.

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  Sexual harassment and bullying covered up at CSIRO, say astronomers

  Senior astronomers accuse CSIRO of failing to address a culture of bullying and sexual harassment in its astronomy department. Hagar Cohen reports for Background Briefing.

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  Counting birds to save the Murray-Darling

  Professor Richard Kingsford has spent much of his life counting birds: a critical body of work that shows Australia's rivers are under threat.

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  The magic is back in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  The first film to imagine the Harry Potter universe without Harry Potter is a dark allegory of fear and xenophobia in America.

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