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Michael Dello-Iacovo | Preparing for the unimaginable

Do you lie awake at night worrying about volcano eruptions, asteroid impacts, global pandemics, evil robots, or nuclear...

Anthony Burke | Thriving in the Anthropocene

Our increasing intrusion into the natural world is creating strange new risks and endangering the future of all...

Richard Buckland | Don't trust your teachers

How can we learn to deal with the unexpected? And how can we teach the skills that the...

Amy Bestman | Equity: the final frontier

When writing policy for public health and welfare, what changes can be made to improve the health and...

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Jim Al-Khalili: The World According to Physics

What are the speculative theories that may become scientific fact in the future? ...

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Tim Flannery, Adriana Vergés, Rebecca Huntley & Emma Johnston: We Still Need to Talk About Climate Change

COVID-19 has made it almost impossible to talk about anything else, but the imperatives of climate change have...

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Eating for the Planet

Is it possible to feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries?...

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Chris Tinney & Martin Van Kranendonk: Life Among the Stars

Less than two decades ago, wondering whether other stars really did host planets was a matter for science...

Rutger Bregman: Humankind, A Hopeful History

Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed primarily by self-interest. But what if it isn't...

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Fighting the Privatisation of Education

How are parents and teachers and activists successfully fighting the forces that are privatising public schools? ...

Nicholas Fisk, Rebecca Guy, Anthony Kelleher, Raina MacIntyre and William Rawlinson: What do we need to discover about COVID-19?

As we grapple with the enormous disruption COVID-19 has brought, what have we found out so far? Is...

Joshua Gans, Richard Holden and Judith Sloan: Bringing back the economy

After COVID-19, our government has a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild our economy, and they are...

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