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We don’t know if God exists, but we should keep asking

By Graham Oppy, Monash University Disputes about the existence of God — like most disputes about religion, politics, and sex — almost always generate heat...

King hits: young men, masculinity and violence

By Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney The recent outcry in Sydney about “alcohol-fuelled violence” has many people asking whether young men are out of control,...

Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job

by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m. The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...

Lawyers look at the Elgin Marbles, but stars keep them firmly...

By Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong Legal star power is being deployed in the form of the very well-known London barristers, Geoffrey Robertson QC and...

Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...

By James Smith It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death. They might not...

Does the age of online education herald the death of academics?

By Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”,...

New Tesco CEO might enjoy the benefits of a dramatic debut

By Andre Spicer, City University London “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The well-known words of Winston Churchill are probably on the mind...

Crafting for good: why we all want to knit for penguins

By Alyce McGovern Last week, a call for knitters to create tiny pullovers for oil-spill affected penguins went viral. Patterns for penguin knitwear from The...

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