Taking ownership: taxi drivers protest the growth of Uber.EPA/Alessandro di MarcoThe rapidly growing influence of Silicon Valley owners over sharing economy platforms is a troubling development. The growing strength and pervasiveness of these platforms means their owners have significant power to impose their visions of what it means to be a...
Palmyra's Temple of Bel, pre-Islamic State.Reuters/Gustau NacarinoThere has been much public condemnation of the destruction of the Temple of Bel at Palmyra by Islamic State (IS), as well as the wider devastation being inflicted on the cultural heritage of Syria and Iraq by both IS and its opponents in Syria’s civil war.
Both Syria and Iraq...
Scientists are searching for collisions between different 'universe bubbles' in the cosmic microwave background.GeraltThe existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “multiverse” made up of an infinite...
farfromenEven Nobel-Prize winners can be melancholy. This is one lesson we can learn from Albert Camus’ life by the end of the 1950s.
Camus was catapulted to public fame in his late twenties by the uncanny novella The Stranger. Soon after, he became a hero of the French resistance and the celebrated author of The Plague of 1947.
Yet by the...
In environments where the ground itself is constantly shifting, breaking, and being reshaped, every component must be built to endure. Mining operations are among the most demanding in the industria...
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If you’re in business, you might have seen it before. A team of capable and smart people just suddenly slows down, and things start spiraling out of control. On paper, everything looks perfect, but ...
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Across Australia, a lot of tradies are busy. There’s no shortage of demand in industries like plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and building. But being busy doesn’t always mean running a smooth or...
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