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Art and Architecture WOW! - Amazing

Some inspiration porn for your Christmas break

Nicholas Gruen
December 28, 2015
Surely the most spectacular and inspiring building of our lifetimes - and some others' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDmloG3tXU
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Old farts (clever old farts) holding up scientific progress: Shock!!

Nicholas Gruen
December 28, 2015
Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? by Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, Joshua S. Graff Zivin Abstract: We study the extent to which eminent...

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  • Suggestions for a small experiment December 8, 2024 John Quiggin
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  • The limits of number-crunching: Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World December 9, 2024 Ingrid Robeyns
  • Sunday photoblogging: Colston Hall (now renamed as the Bristol Beacon) December 8, 2024 Chris Bertram
  • In defense of a minimum referee ratio December 5, 2024 Ingrid Robeyns
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RSS Bill Mitchell

  • The federal government would sack the RBA Board and Governor except it is too busy jumping at its own shadow December 11, 2024 bill
  • The demise of trade unions as a countervailing power to civilise Capitalism December 9, 2024 bill
  • The concept of degrowth remains underspecified – reform or revolution? December 5, 2024 bill
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  • Christmas can be tricky for kids with separated parents. Here are 5 tips to help them cope December 11, 2024
    The festive season can evoke feelings of loss or sadness, especially when holiday messaging focuses on being together.
    Elizabeth Westrupp, Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
  • If ‘correlation doesn’t imply causation’, how do scientists figure out why things happen? December 11, 2024
    Chocaholic nations win more Nobel Prizes, but that doesn’t mean much. It’s easy to link two things – the hard part is working out which one causes the other.
    Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
  • Crisis accommodation is failing women fleeing domestic violence. Here’s how to fix it December 11, 2024
    Current crisis accommodation is isolating, frightening and doesn’t meet the needs of woman and children, but one program is succeeding where others fail.
    Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
  • Chinese security companies are putting boots on the ground in Myanmar. It could go disastrously wrong December 11, 2024
    China wants to use private security contractors to protect its investment projects in the war-ravaged country.
    Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia
  • Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea December 10, 2024
    A global study found only 16% of local governments using AI systems had public facing policies about what they were doing.
    Tan Yigitcanlar, Professor of Urban Studies, Technology and Planning, Queensland University of Technology