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Last stand of the moas
Open Forum | July 26, 2024Researchers have found New Zealand’s endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before being hunted to extinction by Māori settlers.
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The ancient roots of the Olympics
Konstantine Panegyres | July 26, 2024The Olympics began as part of a religious festival honouring the Greek god Zeus and became just as important in Greek society as the revived Olympics are in the world today.
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Don’t prod the porcupine
Jane Rickards | July 26, 2024Taiwan may draw on the lessons of Ukraine’s successful resistance against Russia to adopt a ‘porcupine’ strategy to counter China’s conventional strength.
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Mental aberrations
Alan Stevenson | July 25, 2024Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence and this technology is not only changing how humans relate with it but also with each other.
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The fine print of food
Open Forum | July 25, 2024A University of Sydney study investigating menu items on major online food delivery outlets and food delivery phone apps in Australia has found most advertised items are missing nutritional information that would otherwise help consumers make healthy choices.
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The same goal for all?
Steve Georgakis | July 25, 2024Despite a political climate hellbent on tearing communities apart, the Olympics still holds the potential to bring disparate nations together.
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Crowdstrike highlights global complacency
Andrew Horton | July 24, 2024The Crowdstrike fiasco highlights the fragility of the digital economy and drawbacks of a ‘just in time’ service system with no safeguards, fallbacks and spare capacity when things start going wrong.
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Black swan alert
Tiggy Grillo | July 24, 2024A ‘black swan’ event is an unusual but highly disruptive event and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is now threatening actual black swans and many other Oceanic bird populations on a much wider scale than ever seen before.
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How Ukraine sank Russia’s navy
Brian Glyn Williams | July 24, 2024Ukraine has resisted the Russian invasion on land and in the air, but its most surprising successes have come in a theater where few expected Ukraine to prevail: the Black Sea.
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Uncharted waters
Emma Shortis | July 23, 2024Kamala Harris will now carry the torch for the democrats – and perhaps democracy itself in November, so where does the race go from here?
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A letter to the children of tomorrow
Roger Chao | July 23, 2024Through hunting, agriculture and industrialisation the human race has devastated the flora and fauna of Earth since the last ice age, but future generations can begin to make amends.
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100 years of compulsory voting
Paul Strangio | July 23, 2024Australia is one of the few democracies which insists on every voter turning up at the polls – does this keep our democracy healthy or breed complacency among the political class?
