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A human percussion section: The Idea of North with Kaichiro Kitamura

  • Written by: William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageA stunning display of musical virtuosity (L-R) Naomi Crellin, Luke Thompson, Kaichiro Kitamura, Trish Delaney-Brown and Nick Begbie.Claudio Raschella

Five singers walk on stage and with incredible precision and vocal energy launch into an a capella rendition of Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin, backed by a brilliant but...

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Are China and the US destined for war?

  • Written by: Jack Bowers, Senior Lecturer, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University

By 431 BCE, under the leadership of Pericles, Athens had become a formidable maritime power whose empire extended across the eastern Mediterranean region. Its challenge to the supremacy of Sparta, the warrior nation of the Peloponnesian peninsula, was obvious. According to historian and general Thucydides:

Growth of the power of Athens, and the...

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Income inequality exists in Australia, but the true picture may not be as bad as you thought

  • Written by: Roger Wilkins, Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
imageWealth inequality remains a problem in Australia, but it is lower now than in the years leading up to the GFC.Flickr/Sacha Fernandez, CC BY-NC-SA

We hear a lot about inequality in Australia but the true picture is much more complicated than the headlines usually suggest.

The data indicate that wealth inequality has grown but is lower now than...

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What does DNA sound like? Using music to unlock the secrets of genetic code

  • Written by: Mark Temple, Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Western Sydney University

I’ve been studying molecular biology for many years. I also have a keen interest in music, having played with Sydney pop band the Hummingbirds. Usually, there is little overlap between these two pursuits, but I recently became aware of people using DNA sequences to create music.

This is called sonification. The people doing this usually...

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  9. Why should the state wriggle out of providing public housing?
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  40. As Trump ups the ante, executive powers should worry Australians too
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