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how to travel the world from home

  • Written by: Erik Malcolm Champion, UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, Curtin University
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SpaceX’s recent Falcon 9 rocket launch proves humanity has come leaps and bounds in its effort to reach other worlds. But now there’s a quicker, safer and environmentally friendlier way to travel to the centre of the galaxy – and you can do it too.

NASA has co-developed a free virtual reality (VR) adventure providing...

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Australia Post can't turn back. Here's why

  • Written by: Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University
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Hand-written letters and posted bills are disappearing, and they were vanishing well before the latest slump.

Australia Post says between 2007 and 2019 the volume of personally addressed letters more than halved (over a period in which Australia’s population grew 20%).

Over the past year, between May 2019 and May 2020, they...

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Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages

  • Written by: David Thomas Henry Wright, Associate Professor, Nagoya University
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Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms to organise everything from groceries to protests. Human existence is now permeated by non-human computer language.

This...

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Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?

  • Written by: Bhavna Middha, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?Jakob Owens/Unsplash

Local governments across Australia are mandated to consult their residents on urban development issues. They are increasingly using digital platforms to do this.

Early findings from our international research project, Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age, are that the use of digital technologies for community...

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  2. Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'
  3. Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP
  4. 2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands
  5. 10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own
  6. should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?
  7. Cats wreak havoc on native wildlife, but we’ve found one adorable species outsmarting them
  8. Trust, democracy and COVID-19: A British perspective
  9. Planning a snow holiday? How to reduce your coronavirus risk at Thredbo, Perisher or Mount Buller
  10. what does the law say about secret recordings and the public interest?
  11. How Paul Keating transformed the economy and the nation
  12. The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds
  13. how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate change
  14. Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations
  15. Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female
  16. Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit
  17. 'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating
  18. Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  19. Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
  20. is time travel possible for humans?
  21. what is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out?
  22. We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone
  23. what we can learn from the successes of post-war reconstruction
  24. Getting vaccinated at the pharmacy? Make sure it's recorded properly
  25. international students make up more than 30% of population in some Australian suburbs
  26. We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus
  27. Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it's too late
  28. Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research
  29. experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling
  30. Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
  31. The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
  32. the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  33. what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it
  34. Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock's famous fright film broke all the rules
  35. Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure
  36. 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
  37. Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account
  38. The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana
  39. Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour.
  40. Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders
  41. Bob Santamaria, 'the most significant' figure in Australian politics never to have been in parliament
  42. Tear gas and pepper spray are chemical weapons. So, why can police use them?
  43. taking a wrecking ball to monuments – contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down
  44. What makes pepper spray so intense? And is it a tear gas? A chemical engineer explains
  45. why 'the marketplace for ideas' can fail – from an economist's perspective
  46. New NSW building law could be a game changer for apartment safety
  47. Should I wear a mask on public transport?
  48. The state removal of Māori children from their families is a wound that won't heal – but there is a way forward
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