We're all influenced by people in our networks – how to make this a force for good
Apr 27, 2019 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
As the social and economic divides between groups grow ever wider, and social mobility declines, the bonds that tie people together, within families or communities, have weakened over time. At the same time, democracy...
Digital cathedrals: Bringing Notre-Dame de Paris back to life
Apr 27, 2019 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris sparked intense emotion around the world, demonstrating the cathedrals important place in history and culture as well as its enormous symbolic power. As France and other...
Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption
Apr 27, 2019 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Move aside electric cars, another disruption set to occur in the next decade is being ignored in current Australian transport infrastructure debates: electric aviation. Electric aircraft technology is rapidly developing...
Apr 27, 2019 06:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Were only days into the federal election campaign and already the first instances of fake news have surfaced online. Over the weekend, Labor demanded that Facebook remove posts it says are fake news about the partys...
It's 2019 – where's my supersuit?
Apr 27, 2019 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
I loved the Thundercats cartoon as a child, watching cat-like humanoids fighting the forces of evil. Whenever their leader was in trouble, hed unleash the Sword of Omens to gain sight beyond sight, the ability to see...
Should we turn the Sahara Desert into a huge solar farm?
Apr 27, 2019 06:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be. Aside from a few oases there is little vegetation, and most of the worlds largest desert is covered with rocks, sand and sand...
Google's algorithms discriminate against women and people of colour
Apr 27, 2019 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
At the start of Black History Month 2019, Google designed its daily-changing homepage logo to include an image of African-American activist Sojourner Truth, the great 19th-century abolitionist and womens rights activist....
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects