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The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy

  • Written by: Christopher Pollard, Tutor in Philosophy and Sociology, Deakin University
imagePhilosopher Herbert Marcuse in 1955. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Hugh Hefner, who died on September 28, was the founder of Playboy magazine. Playboy challenged repressive sexual norms and removed guilt around desire - it encouraged men to proposition women a little more. However, around 1970, when Playboy approached radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse for...

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Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

East coast gas exporters on Tuesday signed a formal agreement with the government to offer enough gas to meet to an expected shortfall for next year and 2019 “and any emerging additional shortfall”.

The agreement, to which Malcolm Turnbull was the government signatory, ties down arrangements reached in talks last week and follows...

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Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters

  • Written by: Sally Ferguson, Research professor, CQUniversity Australia
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Today, the “beautiful mechanism” of the body clock, and the group of cells in our brain where it all happens, have shot to prominence. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their work on describing the molecular cogs and wheels inside our biological...

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Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up

  • Written by: Merryn Sherwood, Lecturer in Sports Journalism, La Trobe University
imageNick Kyrgios has written of his on-court struggles for athletes' website PlayersVoice.EPA/Jose Mendez

In recent weeks, AFL star Gary Ablett’s Exclusive Insight and PlayersVoice have joined The Sports Source, 20FOUR and Unscriptd as online sports media products aimed at connecting athletes directly to fans. But will they provide a point of...

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  1. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  2. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  3. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  4. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  5. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  6. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  7. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  8. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  9. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  10. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  11. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  12. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  13. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  14. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  15. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  16. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  17. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  18. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  19. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  20. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
  21. Guide to the Classics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  22. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
  23. Sassy, zany and easy-going: the abundance of fun in digital help
  24. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
  25. Ambae volcano's crater lakes make it a serious threat to Vanuatu
  26. Revealed today, Elon Musk's new space vision took us from Earth to Mars, and back home again
  27. Australian regulators have finally made a move on initial coin offerings
  28. Australia's new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM
  29. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
  30. 'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout
  31. What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
  32. The pathologies of populism
  33. The beautiful social media game: A-League winners and losers on Twitter
  34. Australia needs new insolvency laws to encourage small businesses
  35. Debris from the 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of species across the Pacific Ocean
  36. Googling for a new dentist or therapist? Here's how to look past the glowing testimonials
  37. Revenge porn laws may not be capturing the right people
  38. Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
  39. Dear diary: the Sun never set on the Arctic Mars simulation
  40. Initial Coin Offerings are disrupting how startups are funded - but what are they?
  41. Grattan on Friday: Careful, Mr Dutton, Donald Trump might hear you
  42. Research Check: will binge-watching TV increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes?
  43. Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and being a man during the Cold War
  44. Cycling and politics: Australia’s World Road Championships selection controversy
  45. Full response from lead author of study exploring link between TV-viewing and death from inflammatory causes
  46. Five assumptions we make about North Korea – and why they're wrong
  47. Reach for the sky: why safety must rule as tall buildings aim higher
  48. Baby boomer women make up for lost study time and head back to university
  49. Unpacking sexually transmitted ethics
  50. A year since the SA blackout, who's winning the high-wattage power play?

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