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  Three bloody good reasons to embrace swearing

  Far from foul-mouthed, one professor says swear words can help to express the inexpressible.

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  Learn words in Australian languages with four young speakers

  Many languages, sub-languages and dialects were spoken across the continent before 1788. These four Indigenous Australians are part of the fight to maintain this linguistic diversity — one word at a time.

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  How the gold Nobel Prize medals were hidden from the Nazis

  The gold in a Nobel Prize medal is dense enough to make a big impression when you try to take it through an airport X-ray scanner. It's also very resistant to being dissolved—but that didn't stop one chemist who needed to hide two medals from the Nazis, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.

  Great Moments In Science

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  Kosher curry: The rich tradition of Indian Jewish food

  The cuisine of Jewish people from India is more than fusion — it's a tradition that stretches back of thousands of years. Jeremy Story Carter and Cathy Pryor learn more over a meal.

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  'Up there with Christmas': Camp improves life for teens with limb difference

  Known as "Amp Camp", the camp run by the Amputee Association of NSW helps children with limb differences feel accepted. Julie Browning reports.

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  Why I can't forgive John Howard: award-winning poet Ali Cobby Eckermann

  Having won one of the world's most generous literary prizes, Ali Cobby Eckermann is filled with gratitude — but she still finds it hard to forgive the former prime minister.

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  Is Texas, not Mississippi, the true home of the blues?

  Everyone knows birthplace of blues music is on the Mississippi Delta. There's just one problem: it might not be. Earshot's Rick Howe finds out more.

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