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How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate

  • Written by: Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
imageGiant kelp can grow up to 60cm a day, given the right conditions.Joe Belanger/shutterstock.com

This is an edited extract from Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World by Tim Flannery, published by Text Publishing.


Bren Smith, an ex-industrial trawler man, operates a farm in Long Island Sound, near New Haven,...

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Is there such a thing as a 'true self'?

  • Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
imageCentral elements of the self are understood variously as being relatively deep, authentic, intrinsic or essential.pixabay

“To thine own self be true”, the saying goes. It is often taken as sage advice, a remnant scrap of Elizabethan life coaching, but Shakespeare may have meant it to be heard as a stale platitude. He puts it in the...

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Cancer immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda and Opdivo hold hope for some, but there's still a way to go

  • Written by: Craig Gedye, Oncologist and Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
imageSome people taking these drugs can see their cancer completely disappear – there's nothing left to see on their x-raysfrom www.shutterstock.com.au

Imagine being able to offer hope to people with cancers that were once thought untreatable. Checkpoint immune drugs like pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and nivolumab (Opdivo) are heralding this new era...

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