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  • Renaissance Woman

    Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance.

    13 min
  • The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry

    Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington discuss Australian prose poetry written over the last fifty years.

    7 min
  • Civil Unrest

    Artist Si Sapsford discusses her new book which looks at the installation of her mechanical piece Civil Unrest.

    12 min
  • How To Discover Mirror Stars
    David Curtin discusses the visible signatures of Mirror Stars in observations for the first time. If the dark and visible photon have a small kinetic mixing, SM matter is captured in Mirror Star cores, giving rise to an optical signal similar to but much fainter than white dwarfs. This distinctive signature is a smoking gun of Mirror Stars and could be discovered in optical and X-ray searches.
    17 min
  • Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities
    In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education.
    10 min
  • Social Externalities and Economic Analysis
    Marc Fleurbaey and Brody Viney consider and assesses the concept of social externalities through human interdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou and Arrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis.
    13 min
  • Tipping Positive Change to Avoid Climate Tipping Points
    Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere degradation have advanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points, and to avoid worse ones ahead will require finding and triggering positive tipping points towards sustainability in coupled social, ecological and technological systems.
    11 min
  • War: How Conflict Shaped Us

    Margaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. MacMillan explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war.

    17 min
  • The Social Leap

    In The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out this revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today. From the mundane, such as why we exaggerate, to the surprising, such as why we believe our own lies and why fame and fortune are as likely to bring misery as happiness, the implications are far reaching and extraordinary.

    11 min

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