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Completed by Cervantes when he was in prison, Don Quixote is the tale of a man so passionate about reading he leaves home to live the life of his fictional heroes.
The fact that women choose male partners who can dominate them does not mean that women want to be dominated.
We’ve launched rockets from Woomera in South Australia, but in reality Australia could support multiple launch sites. And the closer to the equator, typically the better.
There are a number of questions parents should be asking to determine what age is best to send their child to school.
Over 200 children are still in asylum seeker detention within Australia and offshore – so why aren’t we more outraged about that?
Stick insects may be using birds to disperse their eggs, just as plant do.
An edited extract of an interview which is published in partnership with The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
For some people, self-weighing could be the key to losing or keeping weight off; while for others, it may do harm.
With electricity bills becoming more complicated, it’s increasingly difficult for customers to know if they are getting a good deal.
If governments step in, this might be a war that customers, workers and the community can still win.
The art and design industry in Australia is demanding ‘mass customisation’ of works of art. Robots may be the answer – and they’re creating jobs already.
Research shows if Australia encourages greenery on buildings, it will reduce temperatures in the city, as well as potential for flash flooding. It also creates new habitats and socialising spaces.
As treaty negotiations begin in Victoria, each party will have to accept the other’s legitimacy; that their own power is not absolute and unconditional.
In the forests around the Murray River, Victoria’s Watti Watti people have trained trees to mark significant cultural locations in the landscape.
A new study has found too few Indigenous people are getting health checks, despite their elevated risk of heart problems.
The news media routinely ‘beats up’ shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest analysis of the impact of government benefits and taxes on household income shows this reduces income inequality by more than 40% in Australia.
Water and energy use are becoming more efficient, which is good news for both the economy and the environment. But Australia has yet to realise the value of national environmental accounting.
Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond ‘I should do something’ to ‘I will take action’.
Many people have an appearance of dark circles on the lower eyelids, and they have many different causes.
Biases are difficult to shed, which makes workplace diversity a powerful and necessary tool for catching unsuspected bias before it has a chance to cause damage.
In many ways, science can be as much about the people doing it as the science itself. A new online initiative is addressing the invisibility of LGBTQ+ people in science.
Clive Palmer believes he can recapture the magic that saw him elected to Parliament in 2013, but what his new party – and others on the right – need is more discipline.
Doomsaying about new technologies is as old as technology, and it’s a vital part of how we figure out when and where something should be used.