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Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth

  • Written by: Louise Grayson, Lecturer in Journalism, Media & Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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This year, as World War One centenary commemorations continue, attention has swung from Gallipoli to France and Belgium. Vast numbers of Commonwealth visitors have arrived in the villages that bore the brunt of the Western Front battles.

My photographic essay Camarade: The Earth juxtaposes photographs taken on the battlefields of the Western Front...

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Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species

  • Written by: Jonathan Sandoval Castillo, Postdoctoral Fellow Molecular Ecology, Flinders University
imageThe program can work well for polygamous species such as gorillas.Mary Ann McDonald/shutterstock.com

A quick look at the popularity of online dating services like OkCupid and eHarmony shows us that people are pretty comfortable with letting an algorithm choose them a mate. Now we at the Flinders Molecular Ecology Lab want to do a similar thing for...

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Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand

  • Written by: Jason Sharples, Associate Professor, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Australia, UNSW Australia
imageThe higher the plume, the bigger the problem.Jim Peaco/Wikimedia Commons

The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is one of a series looking at those threats in detail.


Fire has been a driving force across Australia for millennia. Indeed, the health of...

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Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face

  • Written by: Cristina Garduño Freeman, Lecturer in Architecture, Heritage and Media, Deakin University
imageSome intangible elements of a city, such as people's attachments to the 'vibe' of a place, are critical to understanding that city.Kristina Kl./flickr, CC BY-SA

Liveability has become one of the most important ideas to influence international urban governance and planning. On one level, this should be no surprise – after all, who can disagree...

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