Handwriting’s relevance in a digital world
By Anthony Cahalan, Swinburne University of Technology
The making of graphic marks in the form of letters was one of the first activities of early...
Four Corners: human smuggling and the spectacle of suffering
By Gabriella Sanchez, Monash University
Last night, the ABC’s Four Corners program fed us with yet another 50 minutes worth of emotional, heartbreaking and harrowing...
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...
Plain packs help deter young smokers as uptake drops to new low
By Becky Freeman, University of Sydney
Evidence is mounting that plain cigarette packaging is helping prevent young people from becoming addicted, life-long customers of big...
Should you be worried about getting enough vitamin D?
By Robyn Lucas, Australian National University
With daylight saving ending yesterday across most of the country and winter approaching, Australians are moving from fears of...
Plants absorb more CO2 than we thought, but …
By Pep Canadell, CSIRO
Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn is raising...
4D model solves Yellowstone’s geographical mysteries
By Christopher Kincaid, University of Rhode Island
A decade ago, with Ross Griffiths of the Australian National University, we aimed to build a 4D model...
Why Australia shouldn’t ban Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir
By Adrian Cherney, The University of Queensland
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott calls it “a thoroughly objectionable organisation”, “un-Australian” and “un-Islamic”. But would it be...
