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The network effect
Open Forum | December 2, 2023Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered new structural relationships in complex online and social media networks, such as Twitter and political blogs, that could help explain the digital flow of influence and information.
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Paper tigers
Paul Dibb | December 2, 2023There is no shortage of appeasers in the West who believe that China’s military might renders support for Taiwan futile, but these are the same people who argued against supporting Ukraine faced with the ‘might’ of the Russian army.
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Meet Viv
Open Forum | December 2, 2023UNSW researchers have come up with an AI driven companion to improve the lives of people living with dementia.
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In defence of free will
Adam Piovarchy | December 1, 2023The latest book by Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky – Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will – has garnered a lot of media attention for its radical contention that we’re biological robots devoid of moral responsibility for what we do, fortunately he’s also entirely wrong.
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Australian network resilience
Malcolm Davis | December 1, 2023There’s no perfect solution to ensure Australia’s resilience in the face of disruption and foreign threats, so the best approach is to embrace diversification and invest in the right combination of communications infrastructure from the ocean floor to the furthest satellite.
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The great Australian novel
Nicholas Jose | December 1, 2023The newly published Cambridge History of the Australian Novel considers the role of Australian fiction at home and abroad, its perspectives on the nation’s history and the ever changing landscape of writing, publishing and reading.
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Long hot summer
Open Forum | November 30, 20232023 will claim the title as the warmest year ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Its provisional State of the Global Climate report shows global temperatures are 1.4 degrees above pre-industrial levels, carbon dioxide levels are up 50% and the sea level rise from 2013-2022 is more than twice the rate recorded from 1993-2002.
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Battle cry of the unbowed
Roger Chao | November 30, 2023Young Australian writer Roger Chao offers an impassioned plea for tolerance and social justice in lyric form.
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The road to 2050
Open Forum | November 30, 2023A new report by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, shows existing technologies will enable Australia to halve emissions by 2030 from 2020 levels, under a rapid decarbonisation scenario led by a renewable electricity sector.
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Reflections on the Voice Referendum
Bernie O'Kane | November 29, 2023The dust has begun to settle after Australia’s contentious Voice Referendum, but amid the accusations of bad faith and ignorance, how many people on either side bothered to read or understand the report which laid out how the Voice would have worked, and the problems it raised or failed to address?
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Applications open for Youth Parliament 2024
Open Forum | November 29, 2023The next generation of youth leaders is invited to apply to participate in the Y NSW’s Youth Parliament program in 2024 with submissions now open.
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One man, one vote
Henry Campbell | November 29, 2023The ‘election campaign’ in Russia has already begun, but in an authoritarian terror state, there’s truly only one man with one vote.
