You’d be forgiven for thinking that US drag-queen and actor RuPaul and video game Pokémon are far removed from the serious work of CSIRO scientists, but that’s not entirely the case. In fact, of the 150 new species named in ...
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Australian universities are facing ongoing pressure from cyber attackers who have been emboldened by COVID-19 disruptions and attracted to the increasingly digital nature of learning and research. Universities store highly valuable information about students as well as data regarding research ...
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The competition to enrol new students has continually pushed tertiary institutions to strengthen their future student teams – to listen and take a more consultative approach. With continual COVID disruptions, the competition has now got tougher. Indeed, high performing customer ...
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The ever-increasing use of technology to monitor our daily activities – from CCTV cameras on every street to social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok acquiring user data for marketing (or more sinister) purposes – has bred in us ...
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‘Invitations’ from Two Regimes of 1975 and 2021 The new Taliban regime (‘Taliban II’) of Afghanistan has supposedly announced that they do not intend to take revenge against their former adversaries. A news item stated that they even invited those ...
More »On the move | July
BRUNGS TO LEAD UNSW Professor Attila Brungs will move across town to become UNSW Sydney’s new President and Vice-Chancellor as of 31 January next year. Brungs, the current vice-chancellor and president of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), will succeed ...
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One of the country’s leading epidemiologists says crucial information is missing when NSW’s daily Covid-19 case numbers are announced that could help paint a clearer picture of how the virus is spreading. Professor Mary-Louise McLaws from the University of NSW said Sydney’s ...
More »Thoughts on the passing of the theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg: opinion
The First Three Minutes and A Brief History of Time The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics Professor Steven Weinberg (3 May 1933 to 23 July 2021) has passed away. Just several hours before this writer learned of Weinberg’s ...
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Neuroscientists and psychologists have developed a video game that provides insights into punishment and why some individuals will try almost anything to avoid it, while others are seemingly unfazed by it. For a long time it has been hypothesised that ...
More »International education post-COVID-19 must promote global understanding and co-operation – Opinion
The years 2020 and 2021 so far have been tough for many. There is no denying that countries and industries have been affected at different levels since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019. For Australia, the impact on international ...
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