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Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?

  • Written by Aaron Humphrey, Ph.D. Candidate in Media, University of Adelaide

Legendary Melbourne-based band The Avalanches are returning with a new record – 16 years after their only major release. Their first album, 2000’s Since I Left You, has been dubbed a modern classic. A joyous, witty and funky melange of more than 3,500 samples, taken from vinyl albums bought in op shops, it sold more than 600,000 copies...

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The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal

  • Written by Darren Curnoe, ARC Future Fellow and Director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre (PANGEA), UNSW Australia
imageHomo floresiensis skull from Liang Bua (left) and modern human skull (right).Peter Brown (University of New England).

It’s been a big year for the early human species Homo floresiensis - aka ‘the Hobbit’ - and the scientists who found it.

Way back in 2004 this was the discovery that threatened to rewrite the textbooks and the one...

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Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials

  • Written by Adrian Pokorny, Clinical Associate Lecturer in Medicine, University of Sydney
imageSo a tested medical intervention was found not to work. This should be just as big news as if it was found to be a success.from www.shutterstock.com.au

Sometimes, the most important steps in medical research are the ones we ignore.

In April, a major study was published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. Aliskiren, a relatively new...

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Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia

On their watch… $100 billion has been added to the national debt. – Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, speech to Queensland Labor Business Breakfast, June 8, 2016.

During a speech launching Labor’s economic plan, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that under the Coalition government, $100 billion has been added to Australia’s...

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  1. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  2. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  3. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  4. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  5. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  6. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  7. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  8. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  9. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  10. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  11. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  12. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  13. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  14. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  15. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  16. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  17. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  18. China and the US: when worlds collide
  19. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  20. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  21. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  22. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  23. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  24. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  25. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  26. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?
  27. No big deal: there is little to fear from nanoparticles in food
  28. Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television
  29. Google wants to tap the second golden age of television
  30. Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling
  31. Coal's formation is a window on an ancient world
  32. Business Briefing: how does Australia's policy costing body, the PBO, compare?
  33. Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia
  34. The f-word enters the campaign and trips up both major parties
  35. How Australians Die: cause #3 - dementia (Alzheimer's)
  36. It's time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story
  37. Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 1)
  38. Turnbull proposes an election debate 'in the media of our time'
  39. Sydney's wild weather shows home-owners are increasingly at risk
  40. Solved mystery of the deep-sea mushroom just raises new questions
  41. Ivan Sen's Goldstone: a taut, layered exploration of what echoes in the silences
  42. Computing helps with the complex design of modern architecture
  43. With friends like these: just how close are the Liberal Party and IPA?
  44. 'Antibiotic stewardship' to keep superbugs at bay just isn't happening
  45. Massive storms are pumping pollution into our oceans: time to clean up our cities
  46. Flood deaths are avoidable: don't go in the water
  47. Australian media deals with China – blind spot, or troubling hypocrisy?
  48. Election FactCheck: is crime getting worse in Australia?
  49. Donate to secure trusted information
  50. Where could Australia genuinely innovate?

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