President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised inclusive decision-making informed by scientific evidence. Such an approach would serve to depoliticise and rationalise decision-making.
The growth mindset theory holds a person’s beliefs about their ability can be developed through effort. The fixed mindset holds a person’s abilities are fixed and can’t be changed.
Skulls hold clues to intelligence. (Clockwise from left: Australopithecus, orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee)
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Humans evolved through a series of highly unlikely events – so finding another intelligence like us would be like winning the lottery many times over.
Nick Warner, the new director general of the Office of National Intelligence, has sounded the alarm about Australia’s lack of preparedness to counter cyber-threats.
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We have not been able to develop an intelligence workforce that can keep up with the speed of advancing technologies and their threat to our national security.
Blue whales and orcas are both specialists in their own way. You can’t really measure which one is more intelligent.
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We don’t know for sure which one is smarter, because not everyone agrees on what “intelligence” means. Both have their own special behaviours and skills and we can’t say who is more intelligent.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
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Previous studies that explored whether chess improves children’s cognitive abilities have had mixed results. We found playing chess wasn’t linked to better standardised test scores.
Julie Bishop and Marise Payne have risen to the top in foreign affairs, but their successes may be masking more systemic issues preventing women from advancement.
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A new report has found a major gender gap persists in Australia’s diplomatic, defence and intelligence fields. Australia needs good ideas, and we cannot assume they will all come from the same place.
Ian Myles, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The effort to edit the genes of Chinese twins implies that all our traits are determined by our genes. But changing our diet, environment, lifestyle and microbes may have a greater effect.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne says in a statement that ASIS officers.
often work in dangerous areas including under warlike conditions.
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The Skripal case shows how Russian intelligence services have the confidence to carry out shoddy operations, seemingly unconcerned about whether or not they will be discovered.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has lost his grip on the country’s criminal justice system.
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Underage police informants can’t necessarily be trusted to provide accurate information, so why compromise their safety?
The Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent “war on terror” had a transformative impact on the handling of secrecy and surveillance activities in government programs.
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Professor in Law and Co-Convener National Security Hub (University of Canberra) and Research Fellow (adjunct) - The Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University- NATO Fellow Asia-Pacific, University of Canberra