Cool to be a nerd: why the highly educated Australian Sochi team?
By Martin Doulton, Monash University
The Australian team currently gathered in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Games is probably the most highly educated team of...
Artificial photosynthesis could extend rights to nature
By Thomas Faunce, Australian National University
Should ecosystems have legally enforceable rights? It might sound like a ridiculous idea, but a global debate on this...
Australian Vernacular Photography offers a look at our reality
By Molly Glassey, The Conversation
Opening this week, Art Gallery NSW’s latest exhibition, Australian Vernacular Photography, explores the Australian photographic landscape of the late 20th...
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,...
Explainer: what is the maths behind an exam timetable?
By Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham
Sweaty-palmed and reciting facts over and over in their heads, the hordes of university and school students sitting down...
What Military Families Need to Know About High-Cost Lenders
by Hanqing Chen ProPublica, Oct. 9, 2014, 12 p.m.
Last month, the Department of Defense proposed an amendment to the Military Lending Act that would...
Dollars for Dudes: Almost No Women Among Medical Industry’s Top-Paid Speakers, Consultants
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 8, 2014, 11 a.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.
Few women are on the list...
Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, Special to ProPublica, Oct. 13, 2014, 8 a.m.
In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance...
