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  • ENVIRONMENT

    More 'special features' in store for DVD technology

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 24 July 2006
    2 Comments

    Special features are the DVD equivalent of a free set of steak knives. The appeal isn’t solely economic, either-film buffs are attracted to the idea of expanding their bank of esoteric movie knowledge. But special features are not the extent of the big studios' bag of tricks.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Virtual voyeurism

    • Margaret Cassidy
    • 10 July 2006

    Webcams allow us to see ordinary life as it is being lived around the world. A myriad of sites takes us to tourist sites, places of worship, and even to the Antarctic.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Filters, fixes and flimsy in new Net policy

    • Paul Osborne
    • 10 July 2006

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan's latest plan is to give every family in the country a free Internet filter program for their computer. The government is also putting more money into its NetAlert advisory service for parents and will roll out a community education program - all at a cost of $117 million.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Keeping an eye on our behaviour

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 10 July 2006

    Warnings are more effective if accompanied by a photo of someone watching you.  Maybe this reflects our human evolution.  But if we are to talk sensibly about human evolution, we need a more sophisticated understanding of it than commonly prevails.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Being water wise

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 09 July 2006

    Summertime, and the livin’s less easy—at least in southern Australia.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Big money

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 07 July 2006

    Like most organisms, human beings are most comfortable in their own neighbourhood.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Heated topics

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 05 July 2006

    The power of nature has been dominant this summer—the heat, the drought, the dust and the terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The things that divide us

    • Anthony Ham
    • 05 July 2006

    Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife­—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?   

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Fluid interpretations

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 03 July 2006

    Archimedes was heartened by one aspect of the whole sad Warne anti-doping affair—that people knew enough about the issues to filter out the bulldust.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Creating evolution

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 01 July 2006

    We are so used to the astonishing applications of genetics these days that a milestone has passed almost unnoticed.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Dam all the consultation

    • Anthony Hallam
    • 28 June 2006
    1 Comment

    The Queensland Government is pressing on with the Mary River Dam. According to locals, it will devastate the communities in the Mary Valley, and the Government refuses to discuss the issue.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Mind and matter

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 26 June 2006

    Archimedes’ interest was sparked by recent studies linking behaviour with physical changes in the human body.

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