Did a colossal collision with a doomed planet give us our satellite?
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The author on writing her book, Our Moon, about the power of our satellite to guide evolution and human curiosity.
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My favorite readings for my students.
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Neoliberalism changed many things in Australia. Unions are weaker. Inequality is higher. But exactly what changed is often surprising. The state did not shrink. Social spending did not decrease, nor did it become less redistributive. Household wealth has increased rapidly, but largely due to changes in social policy rather than rising productivity.
The relationship between liberalisation and the welfare state is both more central and more complicated than we often imagine. In Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation I sought to move beyond a lament for declining egalitarianism, and to instead learn from the political strategies that have mitigated and even reduced inequality in hard times.
The book examines case studies from three forms of liberalisation – targeting benefits, marketizing services and financialising the life course. Through each I highlight different models of reform that are broadly consistent with liberalisation (means-testing benefits, facilitating private service providers or using asset-debt relations), yet have different political and distributional consequences.
The aurora sizzles with sound, and we can hear it on Earth.
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Probing our sense of mystery and wonder.
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What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
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There are five times as many beetle species as fish, reptile, bird, amphibian, and mammal species combined.
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Scientists can now study species in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean.
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What a trippy gravitational phenomenon can tell us about the universe.
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