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