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Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100

  • Written by Paul Spence, Senior Lecturer, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
imageLike big waves? Thanks to surf forecasting, you'll know when and where to find them.Shalom Jacobovitz/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their boards. They gather like this when the surf forecast tells them a big swell is rolling in, carrying energy...

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Mount Agung continues to rumble with warnings the volcano could still erupt

  • Written by Heather Handley, Associate Professor in Volcanology and Geochemistry, Macquarie University

It’s more than three weeks since the alert level on Bali’s Mount Agung was raised to its highest level. An eruption was expected imminently and thousands of people were evacuated, but the volcano has still not erupted.

I keep getting emails from people asking me whether they should travel to Bali. I tell them to check the...

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Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it

  • Written by Leonie Kirszenblat, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland
imageSleep is the time for our brain to reboot. Hernan Sanchez/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Many of us have experienced the effects of sleep deprivation: feeling tired and cranky, or finding it hard to concentrate. Sleep is more important for our brains than you may realise.

Although it may appear you’re “switching off” when you fall asleep, the...

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How gig economy workers will be left short of super

  • Written by Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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As a brave new generation of Australian workers enter the gig economy (such as Uber drivers, Deliveroo riders, etc), serious questions remain over how these workers will fare financially in the long term.

The gig economy creates cohorts of new workers (contractors) who potentially won’t have enough retirement savings. According to a...

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  1. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist
  2. Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass
  3. X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017
  4. Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
  5. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  6. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  7. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  8. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  9. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  10. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  11. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  12. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  13. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  14. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  15. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  16. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  17. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  18. Why craft beer is going corporate
  19. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  20. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  21. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  22. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  23. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  24. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  25. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  26. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  27. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  28. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  29. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  30. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  31. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  32. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  33. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  34. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  35. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  36. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  37. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  38. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  39. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  40. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  41. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  42. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  43. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  44. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  45. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  46. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  47. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  48. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  49. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  50. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment

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