Saturday, 5 December 2020

China is Collecting the World’s DNA

And the reason is sinister. 



Trump’s Biggest Blow to China Yet

President Trump signs executive order stopping U.S. from subsidizing the Chinese military.



After Australian Rains

Rare Wangarru wallaby colony grows in leaps and bounds.




Has Publishing Gone Woke?

It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world.



‘Why Journo So Bitter?’

Jordan Peterson hits back at Guardian op-ed on his ‘bigotry.’



We’re All Alone?

Oxford study concludes highly unlikely other intelligent civilizations out there. They are wrong.



Han Job

US urges countries to make law over access to Tibet.




Illuminating Kirinyaga

Meaning and knowing in Mount Kenya’s forests.



Friday, 4 December 2020

Satirist to the Galaxy

The war behind a writer’s words.



Australian Team Running Its Own DARPA-Style Cave Challenge to Test Robots

In preparation for the DARPA SubT finals, Team CSIRO Data 61 has found a cave to test its robots.



Where You Live is Who You Are: Erin O’Toole and the New Culture War

As political arguments go, it has its limits. Will it work?



China Conducting Biological Tests to Create Super Soldiers

Human testing aims to develop soldiers with ‘biologically enhanced capabilities.’



The Case for Chinese Reparations

Are real.



China's ‘AI City’ to Be Entirely Run by Smart Technology

Which will know the personal habits of residents and visitors.



China’s Monster Fishing Fleet

Though not alone in its destructive practices, Beijing’s rapacious fleet causes humanitarian disasters and has a unique military mission.



Whitsundays Fight Escalates

Chinese developer forces Australians off beach.



 

Captive Culture

Even when enslaved or despised, captives brought novel ideas and technologies to the societies of their captors.



Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Sunday, 29 November 2020

The Ungentle Joy of Spider Sex


Some spiders pair puny males with gigantic females, making mating both tricky and dangerous.



William S Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Countercultural Hero

From Bowie to Cobain, heavy metal to Blade Runnerhow the Naked Lunch author changed pop culture. 




How Close is Too Close?

The neuroscience of peripersonal space explores how you create, defend or relax the buffer zone between you and the world.



How to Be Resilient


Life is unpredictable. Brace yourself with a suite of coping mechanisms, internal and external, then deploy them flexibly.



On Self-Respect

Joan Didion’s 1961 essay from the pages of Vogue.



A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature

What this year’s Nobel-winning discovery of the black hole at our galaxy’s center reveals.



Big Picture Trends Being Accelerated by the Pandemic

These ones.