Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – as conceptual pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driven wearable products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wilde explains…
University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research Frances Shannon and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the government’s difficulty repealling the carbon…
The uses for Bitcoin are in their infancy and show signs of the “terrible twos” syndrome.
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In terms of a life-cycle of technology, it is easy to see Bitcoin as being at the same developmental stage as babies going through the “terrible twos”. All of its technological possibility lies ahead…
University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Education Professor Nicholas Klomp and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including Scott Morrison’s secrecy, Newspoll results…
University of Canberra Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including the elaborate showcasing of the Palmer United Party’s stance on the…
Musicians often have curious minds, and the pianist and composer Horace Silver was no exception. An often overlooked musician in the public eye, Silver wrote some of the most performed jazz standards of…
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and student Jelisa Apps, standing in for Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker, discuss the week in politics including controversy around the school…
Older adults are the fastest-growing demographic on online dating websites, with those aged 50-plus making up 22% of members on Australia’s leading internet dating site. In this episode of TCTV, Sue Malta…
Professor David Choquenot, Director of the Institute for Applied Ecology at University of Canberra, speaks to Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan about the week in politics including the Prime Minister’s…
Spain’s revitalisation of ‘beautiful football’ in recent years has been extremely successful. How have football tactics evolved over the years?
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The football World Cup may be yet to kick off, but there have already been innumerable discussions on the various playing styles that each country will adopt. Will they play a 4-4-2, a 4-2-3-1, or a straight…
Australia first qualified for the World Cup in 1974, when a group of part-timers under captain Peter Wilson (far right) went to West Germany.
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Australia will soon begin its fourth football World Cup finals campaign – the third successive tournament it has qualified for – with group stage matches against Chile, the Netherlands and Spain. While…
There are claims that cooking destroys nutrients and enzymes found in food, and that eating raw, uncooked foods must be better for you. But it’s not that simple and, as Tim Crowe explains, a pure raw-food…
University of Canberra Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including Malcolm Turnbull and federal Liberal leadership rumours.
From a single collaborative workspace in San Francisco in 2005, coworking has ballooned into a popular movement, with an estimated 3,000 spaces around the world. Tim Butcher and Julian Waters-Lynch explain…
We often use the weather as a metaphor for how we’re feeling: gloomy, sunny or under a cloud. But how does it actually affect us? In this episode of TCTV, Nick Haslam describes the influence of sunny skies…
NATSEM Principal Research Fellow Ben Phillips and University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the government’s poor handling of the budget blow-back, the beginning of leadership…
Apart from a brief break in the 1960s and 1970s, British engineering and drivers have played a dominant role in setting the land speed record in the fastest cars on the planet. Starting from Lydston Hornsted’s…
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the difficult politics of the budget for the Abbott government, the push toward…
In this edition of The Week in Politics, University of Canberra Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker is in discussion with Michelle Grattan about the upcoming Federal budget, the excise on petrol, broken pledges…
High intensity workouts (HIT) are the number-one fitness trend worldwide, comprising short intervals of exercise at a very high intensity, interspersed with periods of recovery or rest. And despite its…