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Essays & Reportage Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story Billy Griffiths 28 July 2017 Don’t be dazzled by the numbers. What counts is how this latest archaeological find contributes to our understanding of Australia’s deep and dynamic history Books & Arts Going under Nick Haslam 3 July 2017 Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin? Books & Arts Lost in translation – or should that be transcription? Merlin Crossley 21 February 2017 Books | This account of the latest research on genes and society poses some of the right questions Books & Arts The truth about torture Tom Hyland 26 January 2017 From the archive | Outside TV drama, “enhanced interrogation” fails the evidence test, writes Tom Hyland in this review first published in June 2016

National Affairs Innovation: the test is yet to come John Quiggin 10 December 2015 Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy, writes John Quiggin National Affairs Asking the right questions about extreme weather Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick 24 November 2015 Diary of a Climate Scientist | It’s not a simple case of cause and effect, writes Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick National Affairs How should we feel about climate change? Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick 23 September 2015 Diary of a climate scientist | Where do emotions fit into the work of scientists who study climate, asks Sarah Perkins International Wherever you are, heatwaves are getting relatively worse Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick 25 August 2015 Diary of a climate scientist | Even the “top of Europe” suffers in a heatwave, writes Sarah Perkins. And worldwide they’re becoming more frequent and more intense

Books & Arts Spaceship of the imagination Martin Bush 8 June 2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is an important chapter in the evolution of how we learn about science, says Martin Bush. But it’s far from being the last word Books & Arts Unpredictable to whom, and in what way? Ben Eltham 28 March 2014 Not only is he an anti-Chomskyan, Philip Lieberman is also an enemy of evolutionary biology and pop neuroscience, writes Ben Eltham National Affairs Injecting a dose of science John Quiggin 6 September 2013 Opposition to vaccination has something in common with well-funded anti-science lobbies, writes John Quiggin, but its roots in genuine confusion mean it should be handled… Essays & Reportage Eye on the sky Marilyn Moore 30 April 2013 Amateur astronomers are making a unique contribution to science’s understanding of the universe, reports Marilyn Moore