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Explainer: the exciting new genre of the audio-visual film essay

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageA still from Mirrors of Bergman, a profoundly moving audio-visual essay.Vimeo.

During March, the renowned film scholar Adrian Martin and the film critic Cristina Álvarez López are conducting a series of public workshops and lectures on a new and exciting phenomenon of digital film culture: the audio-visual essay.

Barely ten years old,...

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Gone is the solitary genius – science today is a group effort

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
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Scientific discovery was once a mostly solitary endeavour and a common view was that genius was responsible for significant advances in knowledge.

The Nobel Prize – the ultimate prize for discovery – reinforces this perception by awarding no more than three people in each category each year for their contributions to science. Yet,...

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Why counting dead bodies in Syria is fraught with politics and imprecision

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

In a chaotic situation such as the war in Syria, it is nearly impossible to provide precise numbers of those killed and wounded in the fighting. Assigning responsibility for the casualties is harder again.

Nevertheless, the data we do have highlight the murderous response of the Syrian government to the crisis in which it is involved. It also...

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Universities Australia calls for certainty in higher education funding

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

With the higher education sector still in limbo about the government’s plans for it, Universities Australia (UA) is calling for certainty and warning of the damage done by the current vacuum.

The peak body’s chair, Barney Glover, will warn in a speech on Wednesday: “Almost two years of policy insecurity and uncertainty is taking...

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  1. Alan Alda on the art of science communication: 'I want to tell you a story'
  2. Same-sex couples and their children: what does the evidence tell us?
  3. 'Girls Make Your Move' exercise ads look good but are unlikely deliver on their own
  4. A new index for economic uncertainty: nothing to fear but fear itself
  5. Skin deep: should Australia consider name-blind resumes?
  6. Australia's coal mines are pouring methane gas into the atmosphere
  7. Antarctica's blue whales are split into three distinct populations
  8. Explainer: what is differentiation and why is it poorly understood?
  9. The way things are heading, it will be a let down if we aren't voting on July 2
  10. Maria Sharapova's positive drug test: what is it and what does it mean for her?
  11. Negative gearing changes won't drive all investors from the housing market – here's why
  12. We need a fairer system for deciding rain-affected games in Twenty20 cricket
  13. Our electricity network regulation is in trouble
  14. Queer wars: the best place to start promoting gay rights is at home
  15. Parents have the biggest influence over their child's language and emotional development
  16. ASIC v ANZ rate-rigging case will be one of epic proportions
  17. Women in the porn industry need rights and proper pay, not token gestures
  18. Explainer: what happens during a heart attack and how is one diagnosed?
  19. How negative-gearing changes can bring life back to eerily quiet suburbs
  20. CommInsure case shows it's time to target reckless misconduct in banking
  21. Feminism has failed and needs a radical rethink
  22. Sex workers of the world unite! How striking French sex workers inspired a global labour movement
  23. Companies prefer ticking boxes to breaking the glass ceiling
  24. We traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s
  25. The evidence is in: greater gender diversity in science benefits us all
  26. Two years on since flight MH370 disappeared and the search has found nothing: what now?
  27. Who really benefits from freedom of speech?
  28. Why is it so hard to recruit good maths and science teachers?
  29. Jupiter returns as king of the night sky
  30. Government-Labor again 50-50 in Newspoll
  31. Morrison will fight same-sex marriage
  32. Abbott and Credlin and the death of a prime ministership
  33. Euthanasia: more options doesn't always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them
  34. Euthanasia: let's clarify what the law is before we debate changing it
  35. Health Check: what to do if you burn yourself
  36. Chasing ice: how ice cores shape our understanding of ancient climate
  37. Google expands the ‘right to be forgotten’, but Australia doesn't need it
  38. Done like a chicken dinner: city fringes locked in battles over broiler farms
  39. In the ATAR battle, one thing is clear: teaching needs to attract better recruits
  40. GPs struggle to manage patients with work-related mental health problems
  41. Refugee-run school in Indonesia a model for governments to emulate
  42. Weighing the costs and benefits of joining TPP for Indonesia
  43. How should Indonesia deal with emerging religious cults?
  44. The off-topic Conversation #83
  45. Address other life problems to get at-risk young people off methamphetamines
  46. Interactive body map: what really gives you cancer?
  47. It's all relative: how to understand cancer risk
  48. More Australians can stay healthier and out of hospital – here's how
  49. Why startup investors love online marketplaces
  50. Restless right wing and a troublesome Senate: what's a 'good' win for Turnbull?

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