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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Spotting a niche

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 11 June 2006

    Charles Darwin left us with more than a model of how the biological world develops. In evolution by natural selection, he provided an analogy for how all sorts of things change over time. And haven’t we seized on it.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
    • 07 June 2006

    Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Monkey business

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 05 June 2006

    You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A sporting chance | Seven last words | Dutch (er, Russian) courage

    • Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
    • 31 May 2006

    Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Remembering Herbert

    • Greg Barns
    • 31 May 2006
    2 Comments

    Greg Barns on the life of Xavier Herbert.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Wigs, Darwin, polls, gongs and fiestas

    • Eureka Street
    • 11 May 2006

    Thoughts from around the nation

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Higher learning

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 10 May 2006

    No fewer than eight Fellows of the Royal Society of London were taught and inspired at secondary school by one science teacher, Len Basser of Sydney Boys High School. This fact emerged from the 2004 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Captured on canvas

    • Gemma Gadd
    • 10 May 2006

    The artists of the Kimberley capture more than images

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Galileo’s legacy

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 30 April 2006

    An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Beginning of the end

    • Troy Bramston
    • 29 April 2006

    Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Brilliant buddies

    • Ralph Elliott
    • 27 April 2006

    Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A ship and a harbour

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 25 April 2006

    Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.  

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