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When It Comes To Comic Books, Let's Put Literary Criticism Back On The Shelf

When It Comes To Comic Books, Let's Put Literary Criticism Back On The Shelf

Aug 23 2014 | comment(s)


Shall I compare thee to a novel? No. Tim McFarlane/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

By David Sweeney, Glasgow School of Art

Visualizing Algae-Eating Viruses From Space

Visualizing Algae-Eating Viruses From Space

Aug 23 2014 | comment(s)



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Snowplow, Helicopter – Medieval? Parenting Advice For The Ages

Snowplow, Helicopter – Medieval? Parenting Advice For The Ages

Aug 22 2014 | comment(s)

Christine de Pisan instructs her son, Jean de Castel, c.1413. Source: Wikimedia Commons

By Juanita Feros Ruys, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at University of Sydney

Don't Dismiss A 2014 'Super' El Niño Just Yet

Don't Dismiss A 2014 'Super' El Niño Just Yet

Aug 22 2014 | comment(s)



By Agus Santoso, Senior Research Associate at UNSW Australia.

It looks like it’s all over bar the shouting for the chance of this year bringing on a “super” El Niño. Or is it?

Paid Editors On Wikipedia – Should You Be Worried?

Paid Editors On Wikipedia – Should You Be Worried?

Aug 21 2014 | comment(s)

Paid editors on Wikipedia – should you be worried?

By Kim Osman, PhD Candidate at Queensland University of Technology

Whether you trust it or ignore it, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and accessed by millions of people every day. So would you trust it any more (or even less) if you knew people were being paid to contribute content to the encyclopedia?

Life Boils Down To Five 'Rules' ... Or So Says The Madingley Model

Life Boils Down To Five 'Rules' ... Or So Says The Madingley Model

Aug 21 2014 | comment(s)


By James Smith, Research Fellow in Fisheries at UNSW Australia

It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.

They might not seem like much, but, thanks to a mathematical model from scientists at Microsoft Research, we know that these five processes are the key to all ecosystems.