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Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?

  • Written by: Chris Mackie, Professor of Greek Studies, La Trobe University
imageIs there a historical parallel to Donald Trump's rise?EPA/Michael Reynolds

There is much consternation, and quite a bit of alarm, at the recent vote of the British people to leave the EU, and the equally astonishing emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the US presidency. Early on in these campaigns there was a tendency to mock...

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What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?

  • Written by: Raja Jurdak, Research Group Leader, Distributed Sensing Systems, CSIRO
imageWhat if these two smartphones could share their learning of their user's behaviour?Flickr/Markus Spiering, CC BY-NC-ND

Take a look around and you’ll see evidence of the widespread adoption of wearable sensors for health and fitness, such as the Fitbit, Garmin or other devices.

What many people many not know is that we are also using sensors to...

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Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageSelf-service checkoutWikimedia, CC BY

Despite some technological safeguards, self-service checkout machines in supermarkets rely heavily on customer honesty to scan, and pay for, their shopping. It turns out however, that around a third of all customers “cheat” the machines in some way.

Although self-service checkouts can do some...

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Further Senate results and analysis

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

The table below gives the Senate breakdown for each state and territory. 12 Senators were elected for each state, and 2 for each territory, for a total of 76 Senators. The table also gives the percent of all seats won by each party, the percent of the national vote won by each party, and the change in seat numbers since the previous Parliament....

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  2. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  3. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  4. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  5. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  6. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  7. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  8. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  9. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  10. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  11. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  12. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  13. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  14. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
  15. Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
  16. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
  17. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  18. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
  19. Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay
  20. Common method of preventing early births may be causing more
  21. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  22. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  23. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  24. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  25. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  26. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  27. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  28. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  29. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  30. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  31. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  32. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  33. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  34. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  35. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  36. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  37. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  38. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  39. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  40. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  41. Ethics and writing
  42. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  43. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  44. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  45. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  46. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  47. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  48. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  49. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  50. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?

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