Science

'Only about one time in 50 will a series of minor tremors herald a big one.'

Tom Chivers

Trial and error: science should never have been punished

Tom Chivers Jailing the scientists over the L'Aquila quake is stupid and counterproductive.

Larissa Waters

Burke's backyard cries out for the appliance of science

Larissa Waters Tony Burke's decision to stop the super trawler was not based on any real commitment to science-based policy.

Elizabeth Farrelly

It's time art and science engineered an alliance

Elizabeth Farrelly I like engineers. This surprises me slightly, since architects usually see engineers as bubble-busters. It's not their niceness I like.

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Science is golden in the art of teaching

In my first lecture to a class of third-year undergraduates this semester, I mentioned that we would be examining pedagogy associated with teaching in their discipline.

Simon Smart

Science no match for angels at our tables

Simon Smart As a creator and lover of fine food saddled with a kitchen klutz for a husband, it was almost too much for my wife when my mate started regaling her with descriptions of the salted caramel macarons...

Stephan Lewandowsky

Sceptics must start warming to the reality of climate science

Stephan Lewandowsky Don't get bogged down by deniers. Focus instead on the integrity of the science.

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Geoff Strong

If you want to scare people, frighten them with science

Geoff Strong Trot out the bogey word ''chemical'' and play on the punters' ignorance.

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Patients lose as DNA case puts money before sense

Richard Ackland The genetic disposition of human beings is today's frontier of science, money and disease control.

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Anson Cameron

A sad-eyed soldier of the propaganda war

Anson Cameron For a fully fledged country to launch an ape and regard it as cool, well, they're late to the game.

Martin Flanagan

Seduced and subverted ... they've taken out the fun

Martin Flanagan Sport is in a mess of historic proportions. Soccer has a match-fixing scandal stretching across several continents.

Darwin, dinosaurs and the devil

Mark Joseph Stern An Australian creationist believes Charles Darwin is to blame for drug abuse and pornography, and that people rode dinosaurs.

Peter Martin

Be alert and informed and you may pay less

Peter Martin Have you heard about the trick they use in fruit shops? If they want to make money from a large load of lettuce they divide it into two.

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Julia Baird

We should shake up our own minds

Julia Baird We've always been a lazy lot. Our desire to outsource the more difficult parts of life - such as housework, study and tax - is not new.

Clementine Ford

Broadcast media yet to reject tired stereotypes

Clementine Ford I'm largely uninterested in what anyone thinks about breastfeeding in public, particularly those members of the population who don't have breasts.