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In our recent article, “Gaslighting Australia: The Instrumental Power of Australia's Mining and Energy Industries”, we look back on the last decade of Australia’s climate policy inaction. Based on our research, it seems likely that the current strategy, like former strategies, may have more to do with industry-government links than economic realities.

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From George Lakoff and Gil Duran at the FrameLab Newsletter: Moderate and centrist are political weasel words. Their definitions vary widely because there is no such thing as a moderate or centrist ideology. There is no united “middle” or “center” in politics, no single set of ideas on which all moderates or centrists agree. Some […]

With the NBA Finals upon us, a mathematician revisits the famous paper that claims a player's hot streak is an illusion.

The post The “Hot Hand” Is Not a Myth appeared first on Nautilus.

By performing tricks for birds, monkeys, and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world.

The post Abracadabra! How Magic Can Help Us Understand Animal Minds appeared first on Nautilus.

One study suggests that, on a global scale, it's associated with greater happiness.

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Fifty years ago, science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin popularized physics’ most enigmatic feline.

The post How Schrödinger’s Cat Got Famous appeared first on Nautilus.

We are economists, political-economists and policy specialists in related fields, writing to express our support for active measures to strengthen Australia's manufacturing capabilities and guide investment in critical infrastructure, including measures proposed in the Commonwealth government's Future Made in Australia policy framework [...]

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Amorina Kingdon’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Sing Like Fish.

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In my latest article in Journal of Agrarian Change, I argue that through the categories of world-ecology, the history of Australian capitalism is rendered legible. The article emerges from my 2023 doctoral thesis, which placed sugar alongside histories of invasion, pastoralism, and fossil capital to develop an eco-Marxist account of the origins of capitalism in Australia.

The post Race, Mortality and Value: Sugar in colonial Queensland appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

An accident of lighting uncovers Jewish, European, and Islamic origins.

The post The Smartphone of the Middle Ages appeared first on Nautilus.