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August 1, 2019Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
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Culture
August 1, 2019Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
Society
October 1, 2018Drugs: on medication, legalisation and pleasure
What role can cannabis and psychedelics play in modern medicine?
Society
March 1, 2018What the hell was I afraid of?
Dissecting the complex power structures we all inhabit
Society
February 1, 2018Please, go on
When you’re a doctor, nothing is ever Too Much Information
Society
December 1, 2017Some days
Some days, nothing comes easy
Society
November 1, 2017A bad case of the flu
Notes from the flu-season frontline
Society
October 1, 2017The eyes have it
How is it possible for an emotion to be expressed in an eyeball?
Society
July 1, 2017A pain in the tooth
What happened to Australia’s publicly funded dental system?
Society
June 1, 2017The next big thin
Dissecting dietary fads and habits
Society
May 1, 2017Sick day
Sickness can be debilitating but it also offers escape
Society
April 1, 2017Working regional
A stint in a remote Western Australian hospital brings its own challenges
Society
March 1, 2017The war on food
Our minds and bodies have a complicated relationship with what we eat
Society
February 1, 2017Sex and pharmaceuticals
It was championed by women’s groups, but Addyi is not the “female Viagra”
Society
December 1, 2016Performance check-up
How should doctors be assessed? And how should they assess themselves?
Society
November 1, 2016Preparations for the storm
How do doctors manage when there are more patients and fewer resources?