Society
MEDIA
Big data: What's Happening To Information About You?
Every digital transaction and communication leaves digital traces and results in enormous collections of data about what we do and who we...
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SOCIETY
We Need To Avoid Being the Last Generation. Rufus Black
Dr Rufus Black is an ethicist, management consultant and theologian who writes and works on ethical and public policy issues. In this talk...
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SOCIETY
Gains and Losses From the Information Explosion. Daniel Dennett
In his talk at the Creative Innovation 2011 conference, Daniel Dennett sketches some of the major challenges society faces as our capacity...
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MEDIA
The Next Wave of Innovation. James Moody
Speaking at the Creative Innovation 2011 conference, James Moody explains how we likely sit on the verge of an era of great innovation. In...
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MEDIA
Panic. David Marr in Conversation
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear....
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CULTURE
Choosing Between Progress and Planet. Andrew Charlton
Andrew Charlton
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth...
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CULTURE
Peter Singer in conversation with Louise Adler: The life you can save
Peter Singer
World-renowned ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer discusses his new book with Louise Adler. In The Life You Can Save, Singer argues that...
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SOCIETY
Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Lake, Burnside, Megalogenis
Part 1 | Part 2 What do we fear? At this La Trobe University event, four of the nation's leading thinkers on the subject to explore the...
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SOCIETY
Why We Still Need Feminism. Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham
Writer and feminist Sophie Cunningham has watched with growing frustration as women are increasingly marginalised: in the arts, in the...
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ENVIRONMENT
Still the Lucky Country? Marcia Langton, Glyn Davis, Dennis Altman
Part 1 | Part 2Celebrating the launch of Griffith REVIEW 28: Still the Lucky Country?, three of its contributors get together with editor...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
A New Development in Brain-Scanning Technology. Tan Le
Former Young Australian of the year, the technology entrepeneur Tan Le has been developing an astonishing wireless EEG (...
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The Future of the Oceans. Sylvia Earle
American oceanographer and world-famous conservationist and explorer Sylvia Earle has spent a lifetime exploring the world's oceans.In this...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Networks: How They Change Our Thinking. Paul Ormerod
The intellectual basis of almost all social and economic policy in the West over the past 60 years has been that of the rational decision...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
New drugs and new ways to think about them. Olivia Carter
Whether drugs are being used for medication, enhancement or pure recreation, concern focuses on the risks of side effects and unforeseen...
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POLITICS
The Same-Sex Marriage Debate. Michael Kirby and Guy Barnett
Michael Kirby
Marriage is a social institution that has endured for thousands of years, more or less unchanged. Is it now time that same-sex couples were...
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CULTURE
Bats, Birds, Bugs and Us. Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty
Hendra, Nipah, Ebola, Marburg, SARS – names that are variously familiar to all of us. What links them in our minds is the idea of scary,...
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SOCIETY
The Case for Perfection. Julian Savulescu
The current possibilities for using genetics and other biotechnologies to enhance human cognitive and physical performance are real and...
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CULTURE
The History of MI6. Keith Jeffery
At the Lowy Institute, Professor Keith Jeffery reflects on the challenges, rewards and frustrations of writing an authorised history of the...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Hamlet's BlackBerry: William Powers on Life in the Digital Age
Hamlet’s BlackBerry, the New York Times bestseller by William Powers, is about the impact of new technologies on our life. It offers a new...
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ECONOMICS
Too Much Luck: Paul Cleary on the Mining Boom
Paul Cleary in his recent book Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future shows how the resource boom, which seems a blessing,...
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7 February 2012
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