In 1497 Girolamo Savonarola burned books and art in Florence in the most infamous act of European cultural desecration. A year later, he met the same fate.
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Writing a negative online review can have serious consequences, so you need to be careful about how, and what, you write.
La République micronésienne des Îles Marshall est sur le point de devenir le premier pays à fonder sa monnaie nationale sur une cryptomonnaie. Analyse d’une décision politique absurde.
Business-as-usual projections assume our four biggest cities must absorb three-quarters of Australia’s population growth over the next 30 years. Might new cities be a better way to deal with it?
Student protests can make a big difference. American students have a long history of protesting. In the wake of the Florida shooting, American students are already making a difference.
It is not yet midnight, but as the crisis deepens, the diplomatic and military options get more and more complex. And the possibility of war with North Korea is now very real.
From a slow hum to a chirp or a bleep, what is that sound you hear whenever there’s a new detection of gravitational waves?
Research suggests that speakers of “present-tensed” languages such as German and Finnish - in which the future can be describe in the present tense - are more likely to support stronger climate policies.
You Know We Belong Together is a moving demand for more representation of people with Down Syndrome in the arts.
Middle ear infections (otitis media) are a common and often painful condition that
most children will experience at least once in their first year.
Michael Close’s lawsuit raises questions about the legal liabilities of sporting clubs, venues and organisations.
This Perth Festival show, soon to come to Adelaide, contemplates both the mysteries of the cosmos and one man’s inner life.
A engaging show at the Perth Festival is an homage to obsolete objects - pen knives, blotting paper, inkwells, the handwritten letter, telegrams - and a meditation on time.
Bigger galaxies tend to dominate the smaller, when the two collide. But the pending battle between our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy might be a much fairer fight than we previously thought.
Perth, unlike Cape Town, faces no prospect of its tapwater running out. But other problems lurk beneath the surface, as the city’s drying climate puts increasing pressure on irrigation and wetlands.
A political scientist finds out about Indonesia’s youth “political preferences”.
Our financial regulators ASIC and APRA need a board of oversight, similar to what the UK has, to keep them in check.
Seorang peneliti ilmu politik mencari tahu “selera politik” anak muda Indonesia.
Indonesia obliges political parties to have at least 30% of women candidates in their legislative candidates list. But then why this hasn’t significantly increase women’s electability?
Most Australians don’t read terms and conditions or other contracts, so lawyers are experimenting with comics, graphics and other ways to make them more understandable.
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Research Associate in galaxy evolution, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow in Ecology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor in Law, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychological Science | Freelance Research Consultant, The University of Western Australia
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ARC Future Fellow in Marine Ecology, The University of Western Australia
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Staff Scientist, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, Brookfield Zoo Chicago, and PhD Researcher, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Research fellow, Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Negotiation, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Applied Entomology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Marine Botany, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Chinese Studies, The University of Western Australia
