On Wednesday 30 July, more than 100 ANU students marched against the university’s proposed Renew ANU cuts.
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A toxic algal bloom twice the size of the ACT is causing apocalyptic scenes in South Australia. Since March, the algal bloom is estimated to have killed almost 14,000 marine animals from more than 400 species.
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This year’s instalment of the Talisman Sabre war games was the largest yet—designed to send a message to China about growing preparations for war.
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On 25 July, young Egyptians launched a courageous action in solidarity with Gaza, exposing the appalling complicity of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s dictatorship in Israel’s genocide.
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We didn’t always have a straightforward strategy for peacekeeping. Our top brass spent day and night working it out. We ordered lunch for the office and called to say we’d be home late or not at all. We assumed the remedy we were searching for would be full of complexities—minutiae that’d make even the most obsessive bean counter’s head spin. We ran simulation after simulation, but all our spurious theories came out in the wash.
In the end, we decluttered the old ways of thinking. Scratched out the chalkboard full of ideas. The answer had been in front of our eyes the whole time. It was straightforward. Elegant. Like a perfect mathematical proof. Our plan for peace was simple: Kill everyone.
The problem, we reasoned, was that when it came to any conflict (and especially our conflict), people were the constant. People, our experts argued, are what all violence has ever had in common. Remove them from the equation, and what remains? A light breeze. A bird call. The sound of rushing water.
Should it be possible to own an idea? The debate around intellectual property has deep roots in the history of philosophy
- by Aeon Video
Immerse yourself in nostalgia with this filmmaker’s lyrical elegy for the house his family called home for 30 years
- Directed by Damian Gascoigne
Taking a difficult experience and inspecting its elements might help us feel better about it
- by Matt Huston
A tale of three decades and 4.3 million butterflies
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6 projects to volunteer for community science to study butterfly populations
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How dogs exploit the indecision of sheep
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On the 80th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and as Japan's far-right surges, author Iain MacGregor reflects on what Japan must never forget
When a liberal society faces the question of granting special privileges, immunities, and political autonomy to one cultural group … it cannot compromise on fundamental human rights. Furthermore, those who understand liberal democracy as itself a way of life grounded in a distinct moral faith cannot in good conscience agree to allow schools or the government […]
Fujio Torikoshi was 14 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 80 years ago today. He was eating breakfast with his mother when he heard a rumbling and stepped outside into the front garden. All he could see was a black dot in the sky, when it suddenly burst outwards to fill […]
Yesterday we discussed Chinese vs. American AI. The big difference is that a lot of China’s AI is Open Source. Not just Deepseek, but: In addition to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have increasingly been providing their AI offerings for free and are making more models open source. For […]
Caroline Orr explains how Trump has enabled the algorithmic capture of social media platforms, resulting in stealth censorship
Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of...
Creation Fest, a registered charity, has said it will not invite the group back, but questions remain
Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers from their children has been revived.
Why are they so scandalized by a woman being sexy and by scandals?
It’s so predictable and pathetic how there’s some big uproar every time a cute young lady winks at the camera or a creepy old man who is president sloppily covers up his involvement with a pedophile sex offender.
If I had a dime every time people freaked out over something tiny like a blonde making a blonde joke or a president influencing a witness to change the details of their testimony in exchange for a more favorable prison sentence, I’d have at least half the cost of a seat at one of said president’s influence-peddling crypto-dinners.
Why do they act like it’s such a big deal to flaunt a preference for blue eyes or fire a respected career statistician for reporting real but negative employment numbers, thereby redefining all facts unfavorable to the president as “rigged” and rendering all future state-reported information meaningless?
Regulators won hundreds of millions in refunds for U.S. consumers — now the Trump administration is set to terminate them.
Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Wednesday) spoke with us about living their dream by joining the Doctor Who universe and their favorite Doctor.
“And in their place came acceptance.” Staying relevant in your profession as you age and technology changes.
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