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Jane Austen at 250: Why we shouldn’t exaggerate her radicalism
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rights
With the rise of the live-service model, video games have shifted from a product you buy to a service you rent, one that ...
It’s challenging to predict extreme thunderstorms — improving this will help reduce their deadly and costly impacts
Current models for weather forecasting tend to ignore outlier data; learning how to incorporate these can help reduce risk ...
Rewatching Picnic at Hanging Rock at 50: an unsettling portrayal of place, silence and disappearance
Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock was released in 1975. Beneath its haunting beauty, the film challenges the idea of ...
Move over Mercury – Chiron is in retrograde. What even is Chiron?
If you’re like most people, you’ve never heard of it. Meet the ringed asteroid-comet hybrid prowling the outer reaches of the ...
The ANU is moving to kill the Australian National Dictionary – this is why it matters
The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is ...
17 older Australians die from falls every day. Here are 5 things you can do to reduce your risk
Sadly, 17 older people die as a direct result of falls every day in Australia, often due to head trauma or internal bleeding.
Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it
Modern science emerged precisely to deal with the way everything can be manipulated – and scepticism over ‘facts’ goes all ...
Australia can hit an 85% emissions cut by 2035 – if government and business seize the moment
A strong 2035 target makes sense for the climate and the economy. The challenges for Australia are clear – but so too are the opportunities.
María del Valle Varo García
Doctora en Matemática Aplicada por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y profesora en la Universidad de Deusto, donde imparte ...
Escribir a mano y hacer pausas ayuda a recordar
El cerebro tiene sus propias reglas, igual que nuestra forma de aprender y recordar. Las redes neuronales se activan más al ...
Ella Plumanns Pouton
Soy investigadora postdoctoral en el centro de investigación CREAF, donde trabajo sobre los regímenes de incendios y los procesos ecológicos relacionados para evaluar el impacto potencial del ...