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Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them

  • Written by: Cherie Lacey, Lecturer in Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
imageCherie Lacey (left) and Catherine Caudwell interacting with a Furby, one of the first cute home robots.VUW, CC BY-ND

Following several delays, a new range of social domestic robots is expected to enter the market at the end of this year. They are no ordinary bots. Designed to provide companionship and care, they recognise faces and voices of close...

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COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice

  • Written by: Keiran Hardy, Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Member, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
imageThe key messages from Thursday's COAG meeting were about co-operation and a nationally consistent approach to counter-terrorism.AAP/Lukas Coch

Given the persistent and serious threat of terrorism, national discussions about the direction of Australia’s counter-terrorism strategy should be encouraged.

However, such discussions require robust...

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Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing

  • Written by: Louise Pryke, Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
imageA relief at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis (now in modern Iran), including inscriptions in cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing. Diego Delso/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

It is a little-known piece of history that Saddam Hussein was a great fan of ancient Mesopotamian literature. His enthusiasm for epics written in cuneiform – the...

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The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue

  • Written by: Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
imageThe government has so far refrained from putting a legal limit on LNG leaving our shores.Ken Hodges/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The deal signed this week by the federal government and the nation’s biggest three gas producers will ease Australia’s gas supply squeeze, but it will do nothing to address the current high prices.

Under the...

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  2. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  3. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  4. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  5. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  6. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...
  7. Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?
  8. Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package
  9. Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize
  10. Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics
  11. Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn
  12. Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree
  13. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  14. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  15. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  16. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  17. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  18. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  19. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  20. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  21. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  22. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  23. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  24. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  25. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  26. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  27. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  28. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  29. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  30. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  31. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  32. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  33. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  34. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  35. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  36. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  37. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  38. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  39. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  40. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  41. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  42. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal
  43. Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters
  44. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  45. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  46. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  47. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  48. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  49. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
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