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Guide to the classics: the Icelandic saga

  • Written by: Margaret Clunies Ross, Eneritus Professor of English Language and Early English Literature, University of Sydney
imageIcelandic sagas are under-appreciated in the world of European literature.Oscar Wergeland [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Iceland has been in the news quite a lot lately, mainly because of its young soccer team’s outstanding performance in the Euro 2016 football tournament. And there has also been a surge of general interest in other...

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It's all in the rotation: exploring planets orbiting distant stars

  • Written by: Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imageAn artist’s impression of the polar orbit of WASP-79b.ESO/B Addison, CC BY-NC

The first of a two part series that looks at what astronomers can find out about the planets that are discovered orbiting other stars in our galaxy.

With the discovery so far of more than 3,300 planets orbiting other stars, the challenge now is to learn more about...

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If Abbott hadn't been hyper-partisan on Malaysia people swap, Turnbull mightn't have a Nauru problem

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageTony Abbott initially aspired as prime minister not to get sucked into the 24-hour media round, but he quickly did.AAP/Jason Edwards

The Sunday Telegraph reported at the weekend that Malcolm Turnbull had visited only seven electorates since the July 2 poll, and contrasted his “hermit-style approach” with Bill Shorten’s...

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In the Margins of Philosophy; Plato to Footnotes

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
imageJacques Derrida was the father of deconstruction

Footnotes to Plato

2017 will mark fifty years since French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida’s golden year of 1967. In that year, the classic studies Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference, and Of Grammatology appeared.

Derrida’s key idea is captured in the title of a later, 1972...

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  1. Capitalism and Democracy [part 4]
  2. Major parties to allocate long and short Senate terms using order-of-election method
  3. Ausgrid decision justified but more transparency needed
  4. People power is the secret to reliable, clean energy
  5. Small world: does ecology reach all the way down to the subatomic scale?
  6. Nauru abuse reports should mark an opportunity for compassion, not more dehumanisation
  7. Explainer: what is psychoanalysis?
  8. The Dobell Drawing Biennial: modestly staged, impressively rendered
  9. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the census debacle
  10. 'No More Hunger' Games: if only we cared about the real-world Liveability Olympics
  11. Western democracy needs humility to step beyond its own shadow
  12. Standardised curriculums in Indian universities are not helping to improve academic quality
  13. The legacy of Glenn Stevens in three lessons
  14. Just for you: how to create sounds that only you can hear in a venue
  15. The $8.2 billion water bill to clean up the Barrier Reef by 2025 – and where to start
  16. Vital Signs: US scores while Australia struggles
  17. NAPLAN data is not comparable across school years
  18. Higher, faster, stronger: Olympic athletics by numbers
  19. Cutting to numb the pain of sex abuse: interviews with young women in drug treatment
  20. Friday essay: reflections on the idea of a common humanity
  21. How temporary migration is changing Australia – and the world
  22. Root of census failures say badly done IBM and ABS. Still down for some.
  23. Grattan on Friday: There's seldom been a harder time to get things done
  24. Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
  25. Changing state-owned enterprises provide less cause for Chinese investment fears
  26. Going for... green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour
  27. Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in a warmer future
  28. Morrison blocks Chinese bids for NSW power grid
  29. A solution to antibiotic resistance may have been under our noses all along
  30. Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
  31. Angry Turnbull flags heads will roll over census disaster
  32. Explainer: what makes a winning swimmer?
  33. Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes
  34. All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds
  35. Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?
  36. The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
  37. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  38. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  39. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  40. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  41. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  42. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  43. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  44. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  45. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  46. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  47. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  48. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  49. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  50. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?

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