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The technology in science fiction is not always what we want in the real world

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageIt's okay in science fiction but not in real life: A robot (Robin Williams, left) who dreams of becoming human in the movie Bicentennial Man.AAP/Touchstone Pictures

Our expectations of technology in the real world are often fed by our perception of science fiction content. This is the case for children in particular.

More recently, researchers and...

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James Hansen arrives – at his first ever COP

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageDavid Holmes

There is excitement for many at the Paris summit at the arrival of someone Naomi Klein called this week the grandfather of climate science.

James Hansen, who is credited with sounding the first alarm on climate change in the 1980s, is a radical climate systems analyst whose understanding of global warming is informed by his expertise in...

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  1. Sea level rise is real – which is why we need to retreat from unrealistic advice
  2. 500 years of drought and flood: trees and corals reveal Australia's climate history
  3. My genes made me do it: the problem of genetic evidence and diminished culpability
  4. Grattan on Friday: Ian Macfarlane, done down in the reshuffle, one-ups Malcolm Turnbull
  5. It's not all about government, business managers can foster innovation too
  6. Refugees' suffering can't be eased in their current conditions
  7. Gene editing could open up animal organ transplants into humans
  8. Sizing up the Asia Pacific’s booming alternative finance sector
  9. Shift away from 'publish or perish' puts the public back into publication
  10. Focus on STEM risks sidelining social science innovation
  11. Al Gore: 'the will to act is a renewable resource in itself'
  12. Discussing the 'success' of limiting aviation emissions is just hot air
  13. Most Kiribatian households are mulling climate migration – and that's just the start
  14. Sex is neither good nor bad, but writing makes it so
  15. Greens deal with government unveils tax affairs of some private companies
  16. Look to our religious leaders for a climate change Plan B
  17. Albanese offers Labor a counter to Turnbull's polished charms
  18. A European Union-Australia trade deal may heal a troubled history
  19. Ian Macfarlane defects to Nats, who eye extra frontbench post
  20. We're right to make a scene about gender equity in the Australian screen industry
  21. Attack of the jellies: the winners of ocean acidification
  22. The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packs
  23. The 'new football' should stop engaging in 'old soccer' debates
  24. Explainer: what is black lung and why do miners get it?
  25. Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
  26. Profiting from the innovation of others? Why governments must manage the spoils of new ideas
  27. The right words matter when talking about pain
  28. Five reasons we should embrace gene-editing research on human embryos
  29. Debate on whether we should use gene-editing technology is far from black and white
  30. Democracy that bows down to the market is a false compromise
  31. New dwarfism drug shows how innovation can be done well
  32. Explainer: magical realism
  33. Industry super funds saved from US-style ideology
  34. Even the super-corals of Australia's Kimberley are not immune to climate change
  35. The electricity network is changing fast, here's where we're heading
  36. There is no easy way to measure the impact of university research on society
  37. India should not be allowed to hold the world to ransom at the climate talks
  38. Who feels the heat first?
  39. Just how hard will India push in Paris?
  40. Climate refugees: in the too-hard basket?
  41. James Hansen: emissions trading won't work, but my global 'carbon fee' will
  42. Back to the wall, Brough dramatically switches his story on Slipper diary
  43. Cyber breach at the Bureau of Meteorology: the who, what and how, of the hack
  44. Government policy, not consumer behaviour, is driving rising Medicare costs
  45. Read it and weep: the book trade needs more than parallel import restrictions
  46. Feminist childcare fight comes full circle as job-based policy fails children's needs
  47. Coal could still kill us
  48. Anglers have helped detect a shift in the habitat of black marlin
  49. Mal Brough adds to confusion by saying sorry if he caused confusion
  50. Innovation statement must reinvent the wheel – or throw it away
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