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Community Development projects can make a difference
It is time for government leaders to stage a ‘walk in’ and recommit the country’s resources for the health of everyone.
The draft Charities Bill 2003
Australians have been brilliant at ideas, and poor at using them to practical purposes. In our rush to generate a more productive research culture, we must guard against cutting off the well-spring of ideas.
Michael Magnusson and Caravaggio.
In the early 1990s Dr Peter Steinberg, a marine ecologist from the University of New South Wales, discovered a small red seaweed in Botany Bay that keeps its fronds free of bacteria. Archimedes continues the tale.
The IT industry prepares for the next boom
Archimedes has been in Queensland discussing science communication. Can it change society?
Scientific research is all about making life more predictable. So it’s odd that one of the great fascinations of research is its very unpredictability.
How do people decide when to stop clapping after a performance? The progress of fads and fashions—in thought, opinion or consumer behaviour—can be described by one of the laws of magnetism.
John Button reviews Henry Speagle’s Editor’s Odyssey: A Reminiscence of Civil Service 1945–1985.
Locals might find it boring, but this visitor to the Outer Hebrides found more than enough to make the sabbath special
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