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Hugh Mackay: the state of the nation starts in your street

  • Written by: Hugh Mackay, Honorary Professor of Social Science, University of Wollongong; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University
imageA 'loss of community' is one of the most common concerns among contemporary Australians.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

This is an edited version of the Gandhi Oration, delivered by Hugh Mackay at the University of New South Wales on January 30, 2017.

I wonder what Gandhi would have made of Australia in 2017 – a place that many people who live here regard...

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Fornication, fluids and faeces: the intimate life of the French court

  • Written by: Susan Broomhall, Director, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia
image Louis XIV (played by George Blagden) cavorts with a young nymph (Alexia Giordano) in Versailles.Capa Drama

The second season of the French-Canadian TV series Versailles will soon be upon us, as will the fourth of the US series Reign. The former charts the intertwined development of the 17th-century French monarch Louis XIV and his best-known...

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Dietary guidelines don't work. Here's how to fix them

  • Written by: Duane Mellor, Associate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Canberra
imagePastry or fruit? Dietary guidelines aren't helping us make the best food choices.from www.shutterstock.com

Dietary guidelines come under a lot of fire. They have been accused of not being based on evidence, not being environmentally sustainable and being out of touch with nutritional science. They also fail to change people’s eating habits,...

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Why we can't spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can

  • Written by: Sean Blamires, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW Australia
imageIf it's good enough for a spider, why can't we make such strong silk?Flickr/Petra Bensted, CC BY

Silk is a high performance protein-baed fibre that is naturally produced by invertebrates. The most well-known is the domesticated silk moth (Bombyx mori), whose silk has been used in fabrics for more than 4,000 years.

Spiders also produce silk. The...

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