The $120,000 banana: how to have your art and eat it

Dec 10, 2019 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

For his latest work at the international Art Basel fair, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan bought a banana, duct-taped it to the wall of the gallery and called it Comedian. Over the weekend, American artist David Datuna...

The problem with transport models is political abuse, not their use in planning

Dec 10, 2019 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

This is the second article in a series to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Melbourne Transportation Plan. Transport models are often singled out as a barrier to providing more sustainable and equitable...

How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now

Dec 10, 2019 05:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Fans of Ridley Scotts 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner returned to cinemas last month for an unusual milestone: history catching up with science fiction. Blade Runner opens in Los Angeles, in November 2019. Furnaces burst...

Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won't stop us doing it

Dec 10, 2019 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Hardly a week goes by without a report announcing the end of work as we know it. In 2013, Oxford University academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne were the first to capture this anxiety in a paper titled: The Future of...

Election 2019: what's at play in Northern Ireland?

Dec 10, 2019 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Northern Ireland is well known for its deep divisions. But as the 2019 general election approaches its five main political parties are united on at least one thing strong opposition to the Brexit deal negotiated by Boris...

Job losses expected as NZ's broadcasting sector faces biggest overhaul in a decade

Dec 10, 2019 05:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

New Zealands broadcasting sector, both public and commercial, is facing the biggest structural upheaval in a decade. The latest report on New Zealand media ownership, compiled by the Journalism, Media and Democracy...

How randomised trials became big in development economics

Dec 10, 2019 05:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three researchers for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, one which has transformed development economics. What are randomised experiments? And why...