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Why China will be watching how we commemorate Anzac Day

  • Written by: Tom Sear, PhD Candidate, Australian Centre for Australian Centre for Cyber Security, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW
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When Australians commemorate Anzac Day this year, an unexpected spectator could be the Chinese government, which has recently adopted “western” war commemoration practices.

National holidays, ritualised mobilisations, and collective gatherings to honour war veterans have become a familiar part of western societies since the end of the...

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Bigfoot, the Kraken and night parrots: searching for the mythical or mysterious

  • Written by: Euan Ritchie, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
imageIn 2012 scientists succeeded in filming for the first time ever a giant squid in its natural habitat.EPA/NHK/NEP/DISCOVERY CHANNEL/AAP

It’s remarkable how little we know about Earth. How many species do we share this planet with? We don’t know, but estimates vary from millions to a trillion. In some respects we know more about the Moon,...

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East Timor, war, coffee and Australia's debt of honour

  • Written by: Heather Merle Benbow, Senior lecturer in German and European Studies, University of Melbourne
imageCoffee beans picked from a crop in Timor-Leste.United Nations Photo, flickr, CC BY

Australian soldiers have long relied on an East Timorese hospitality epitomised by its coffee.

The fond appreciation for the nation’s beans traces back to the second world war, where Dutch and Australian commandos – known collectively as Sparrow Force &ndas...

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Bayes' Theorem: the maths tool we probably use every day, but what is it?

  • Written by: Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
imageWill he or won't he hit the bullseye? Using Bayes' Theorem, your prediction will be based on how the current match is going - and how he's played in the past.Flickr/Marjan Lazarevski, CC BY-ND

Our world view and resultant actions are often driven by a simple theorem, devised in secret more than 150 years ago by a quiet English mathematician and...

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