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Section: Environment

  • ENVIRONMENT

    Positive influences

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 25 April 2006

    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.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Designer deity

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 24 April 2006

    The old religion versus evolution debate is back. The latest contender in the conservative religion corner is known as intelligent design.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    How the people saved their river

    • Robert Kennedy
    • 24 April 2006

    The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    A hard rain

    • Robert Hefner
    • 23 April 2006

    If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless  to examine those actions more closely.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Power politics

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 23 April 2006

    Regarding climate change, what we need is not a new way of engineering but a new way of living.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Vying for vaccine

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 21 April 2006

    What with tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides and bombings, we’ve been beaten around the head with more than a few hard lessons on the limits to human power in the past year. And it looks like we are about to get another one—bird flu.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Positive thinking

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 20 April 2006

    In the spirit of the times, Archimedes writes a column about positive, upbeat happenings in science—the things to which we often pay too little attention.

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