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control of the global computer-chip industry

  • Written by: Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW
control of the global computer-chip industryThe semiconductor industry sits at the centre of the modern worldwww.shutterstock.com

Silicon Valley may now be more popularly associated with software companies such as Google and Facebook but it takes its name from the material most used to make semiconductors.

Semiconductors – or computer chips – power everything from mobile phones to...

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Is there such thing as an addictive personality?

  • Written by: Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
Is there such thing as an addictive personality?There are a few things people predisposed to addiction have in common.from www.shutterstock.com

Most of us know somebody who tends to get over involved in certain behaviours, and the saying often goes that they must have an “addictive personality”. But is there such a thing?

The idea of an addictive personality is more pop-psychology...

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experimental Australian films as poetic diary entries

  • Written by: Stuart Richards, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
experimental Australian films as poetic diary entriesPrototype's first season of experimental films took video art off the gallery wall and placed it in your smart phone.Hannah Brontë/Prototype

With the launch of Hannah Brontë’s music-driven The Sweet Suits last Tuesday, online cinematheque Prototype’s first season came to a close.

Every Tuesday, a new film was delivered to...

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