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Can you grow potatoes on Mars?

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imageIf you can grow potatoes here, why not on Mars?Helen Maynard-Casely, CC BY-SA

This is not as odd a question as it sounds, and by next week I reckon a good lot of you will be pondering it. Why? Well the 30th September sees the opening of The Martian in Australia, director Ridley Scott’s latest offering. It’s a survivor tale, telling...

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If Peter Credlin had behaved as Peta did, he would have received a kicking too

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imagePeta Credlin did not seem to accept any responsibility for the demise of her leader despite taking much credit for getting him into office.Paul Miller/AAP

Peta Credlin, former chief of staff to the former prime minister, has remained high-profile and defiant to the end.

Despite her changed circumstances Credlin went ahead with a panel discussion at...

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  1. Can foreign policy be freed from populist politicking?
  2. Technology will play a starring role in Australia's future story
  3. The Horse: reframing the history of human progress
  4. No place like home when playing in the Rugby World Cup
  5. State of fear: what should we do about sharks in New South Wales?
  6. What will changes to the national curriculum mean for schools? Experts respond
  7. Can the 'real Malcolm' survive being PM?
  8. More is less? Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
  9. Turnbull must break with past attempts to keep the future at bay
  10. Pyne leaves education having failed to sell a vision for the past
  11. Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
  12. How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable
  13. Redefining the (able) body: disabled performers make their presence felt at the Fringe
  14. Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistake the poison for the cure
  15. High-tech fertilisers and innovation have to come to the Great Barrier Reef's rescue
  16. Will Senate voting reform end up in the too hard basket?
  17. Politics podcast: Kim Carr on Labor's new higher education policy
  18. COP 21 : pourquoi Paris ne sera pas un autre Copenhague
  19. Pope works to reconcile Catholic teaching, population pressures and sustainable development
  20. Explainer: how does the immune system learn?
  21. Using family trusts to minimise tax is on the nose: so why are policy makers silent?
  22. The late Gordon Darling and the gentle art of philanthropy
  23. The war on online advertising is intensifying, and the ads are losing
  24. The wash-up from the Canning byelection
  25. Australia's VET system needs fundamental change – here's how it can be fixed
  26. All eyes on the Aussie dollar as Australia stalks recession
  27. What is this thing called reform?
  28. Senate Inquiry into arts funding: South Australia takes a bow
  29. Aged-care funding creates dependency and lowers well-being of residents
  30. Explainer: the world's new sustainable development goals
  31. Want your kids to learn another language? Teach them code
  32. Turnbull takes Coalition into lead and trounces Shorten in Newspoll
  33. Senate crossbencher's advice to new PM: come and walk the red carpet, Malcolm
  34. Labor's higher ed policy: focus on retaining students and increasing per-student funding
  35. Was it but a dream? Post Brandis, we need a reordering of national arts priorities
  36. Health Check: 'food comas', or why eating sometimes makes you sleepy
  37. When 'hand crafted' is really just crafty marketing
  38. Two visions of the 'new economy' collide where people and technology intersect
  39. Baobab trees trace the African diaspora across the Indian Ocean
  40. Building prisons is not making us safe – what can government do?
  41. From 'debt and deficit' to 'building prosperity': what's needed to shift the economic narrative
  42. The off-topic Conversation #61
  43. Selling sex in music videos and Video Music Awards
  44. Playing with fire: the economics and network of fire and haze
  45. Damned Whores and God’s Police is still relevant to Australia 40 years on – more's the pity
  46. Banks are training us to embrace their competitors
  47. Grade repetition: there are better ways to move kids forward than by holding them back
  48. Beware the multipack: it may hinder rather than help your diet
  49. Creative self-destruction: the climate crisis and the myth of 'green' capitalism
  50. Mauna a Wakea: Hawai'i's sacred mountain and the contentious Thirty Meter Telescope

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