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Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?

  • Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies., Griffith University
imageWho'll be the next president of the United States – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?Flickr/torbakhopper, CC BY-NC-ND

Who will win the battle for the White House to become the next President of the United States is a topic of hot debate.

Much of that debate is taking place online, with plenty of people blogging, tweeting or updating social...

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Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard

  • Written by: Mark Briskey, Senior Lecturer, National Security and International Relations, Curtin University
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The proliferation of terrorist attacks in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa saturate the media with attention to and analysis of these outrages. From the murder of a Catholic priest in France to the massacre of 80 Hazara people in Kabul, these lead us inexorably to question the origins of such attacks and why these extremists claim...

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Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team

  • Written by: Job Fransen, Lecturer in Skill Acquisition and Motor Control, University of Technology Sydney
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Rugby Sevens is a relatively young sport. Although it has been played since the late 19th century, the World Rugby Sevens series, which consists of 12 international tournaments, originated in 1999. It wasn’t until 2009 that the popularity of Sevens boomed through its inclusion in the Olympic program.

The sport is played with seven athletes on...

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  1. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  2. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  3. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  4. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  5. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  6. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  7. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  8. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  9. Does racism make us sick?
  10. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  11. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  12. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  13. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  14. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  15. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  16. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  17. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  18. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  19. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  20. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  21. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  22. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  23. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  24. Further Senate results and analysis
  25. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  26. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  27. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  28. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  29. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  30. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  31. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  32. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  33. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  34. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  35. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  36. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  37. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  38. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
  39. Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
  40. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
  41. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
  43. Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay
  44. Common method of preventing early births may be causing more
  45. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  46. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  47. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  48. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  49. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  50. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016

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