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We all need to forget, even robots

  • Written by: Christopher Stanton, Researcher, Human-Machine Interaction, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University
imageIf you tell a robot secrets, you might want to make sure it can forget them too.ibmphoto24/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

We all know what it’s like to forget something. A loved one’s birthday. A childhood memory. Even people capable of extraordinary memory feats – say, memorising the order of a deck of cards in less than 20 seconds –...

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From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall

  • Written by: Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, Deakin University

The recent turmoil over the removal of Confederate statues in the United States invites us to think about the importance of monuments and historical memory worldwide. It also invites us to ask, should statues that represent dark episodes in a country’s history be removed? Or should they be kept as reminders of trauma?

The taking down of a...

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Of renewables, Robocops and risky business

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
imageWhat a gas: one of Moreland's new hydrogen-powered garbage trucks.Takver/Flickr.com, CC BY

A while ago I asked what types of people will lead our great energy transition.

Well, some of them seem to be living in North Melbourne. Earlier this month I watched as Victoria’s Climate Change Minister Lily D’Ambrosio announced A$1 million for a...

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High Court challenge to offshore immigration detention power fails

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
imageThe decision reveals the striking breadth of the government's power to deal with asylum seekers and refugees in ways that directly contravene international law.AAP/Eoin Blackwell

The High Court has today rejected a claim that the Australian government can only exercise its powers outside Australia for purposes that would be legal under the law of...

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  2. Mythbusting Ancient Rome -- did all roads actually lead there?
  3. Grooming the globe: denying fairness, complexity and humanity
  4. Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
  5. When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect
  6. Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see
  7. Australia emits mercury at double the global average
  8. When artists get involved in research, science benefits
  9. A new approach to culture
  10. Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?
  11. The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals
  12. Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?
  13. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  14. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write
  15. Curious Kids: Why don't the planets closest to the Sun melt or burn up?
  16. To the High Court we go: six MPs under clouds in decisions that could undermine the government
  17. Here's how many people get infections in Australian hospitals every year
  18. The hollow promise of construction-led jobs and growth
  19. For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
  20. Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
  21. Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA
  22. ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson
  23. No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself
  24. Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security
  25. A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer
  26. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  27. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  28. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  29. Book review: The New Puberty
  30. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  31. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  32. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  33. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  34. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour
  35. The science of being 'nice': how politeness is different from compassion
  36. Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
  37. 'Smart home' gadgets promise to cut power bills but many lie idle – or can even boost energy use
  38. New Zealand claims Barnaby Joyce as one of its own, in new dramatic citizenship turmoil
  39. Our lifestyle, not our innovation, attracts US investment to Australia
  40. Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
  41. Poo transplants beyond the yuck factor: what works, what doesn't and what we still don't know
  42. FactCheck Q A: is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source?
  43. The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares
  44. Post-lobstergate swings to Labor in 4 Vic marginal seats
  45. High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander
  46. A short history of the office
  47. Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it
  48. How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote
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