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Spring selling season and other gimmicks

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imageThe "Spring bounce" is an artefact of inadequate statistical modelling.AAP/Paul Miller

In the next couple of weeks you’ll start to see all the signs of the change of season. Like many Sydneysiders, I’m looking forward to the longer hours of sunshine and flowers blossoming.

Inevitably, and unfortunately, we’re about to see an...

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The science and fiction behind Blade Runner

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imageScience in the Cinema this year sorted fact from fiction in the 1982 cult classic Bladerunner.ElectricDynamite/flickr

Science – or strange permutations of it at least – is everywhere in the cinema. At any one time on movie screens around the world, humans are being threatened by lethal viruses, cured from terminal illness by miracle...

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