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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Curiouser and curiouser

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 19 June 2006

    Curiosity may have been the death of the cat, but it is the lifeblood of science. Recently Archimedes came across two delightful examples of how  human the events leading to advances in scientific research can be.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Unsexy science

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 16 June 2006

    Archimedes would argue that such science forms the backbone of our society, in the way that adequate sewerage, clean water and good dietary information do more for human health than heart transplants and Viagra.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Caught in the Act

    • Paul Martin
    • 15 June 2006

    Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act  is full of holes.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Refining Einstein

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 13 June 2006

    Poor old Einstein. He’s bound to be found wanting in the end, like Newton and Galileo before him.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Want to live to be 100?

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 12 June 2006
    1 Comment

    As researchers learn more and more about how organisms work, it’s becoming increasingly evident that our lifespan is programmed into us and can be reprogrammed.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Spotting a niche

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 11 June 2006

    Charles Darwin left us with more than a model of how the biological world develops. In evolution by natural selection, he provided an analogy for how all sorts of things change over time. And haven’t we seized on it.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Monkey business

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 05 June 2006

    You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Green science

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 31 May 2006

    It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Laser zone

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 22 May 2006

    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.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Business contacts

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 14 May 2006

    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.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The health of the whole

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 14 May 2006

    Tunisian human rights activist and University of Paris XIII Associate Professor of Public Health, Moncef Marzouki argues that there are three approaches to health.

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