Would an eruption in Melbourne really match Hawaii's volcanoes? Here's the evidence

Aug 28, 2018 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Spectacular images of recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii are a little disheartening especially given news reports suggesting there is a sleeping volcano under Melbourne that could awaken and erupt at any...

NAPLAN 2018 summary results: a few weeks late, but otherwise little change from previous years

Aug 28, 2018 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views

This years NAPLAN results have finally landed. The results are a few weeks behind schedule, due to disagreement over how scores should be reported between the body that administers the test and state education...

Malcolm Fraser's political manifesto would make good reading for the Morrison government

Aug 28, 2018 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Malcolm Fraser died on March 20, 2015, just a little more than three years ago. One can only speculate what he would have made of a three-year Malcolm Turnbull interregnum, but it is a fair assumption he would have been...

Drought is inevitable, Mr Joyce

Aug 28, 2018 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Barnaby Joyce, Australias new special envoy for drought assistance and recovery, will have to be careful he doesnt do more harm than good. Government funding of agriculture during a drought typically falls into three...

1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to 'Gym Crow' and got worldwide attention

Aug 28, 2018 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

If they build the first story, blow it up. If they sneak back at night and build three stories, burn it down. And if they get nine stories built, its yours. Take it over, and maybe well let them in on the weekends. This...

Red-state politics in and out of the college classroom

Aug 28, 2018 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

For two decades, I have taught U.S. womens and gender history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a blue town in a blue state, marooned in an ocean of red. Bordered by Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and...

The ruthless pursuit of online 'likes' gives you nothing

Aug 28, 2018 12:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Life

Imagine a popular social media channel that did not display the number of likes, mentions, impressions, followers, engagements or any other metric to show how many times ones content has been viewed, by whom and when. A...