The most erotic thing a man can do for a woman is … the dishes.
We (Natasha Mitchell and Jane McCredie), editors ofThe Best Australian Science Writing 2013, are on the hunt for pieces of great writing about science for a general audience: journalism, articles, blogs, even fiction and poetry.
‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’, Mark Twain is supposed to have said when his obituary was published somewhat prematurely. Something similar has happened to Aussie English: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. From time to time newspaper columns contain an obituary for our language, usually ...
It is a balmy night, on the eve of Australia Day, 2010. In Canberra’s Federation Mall, just outside Parliament House, Patrick McGorry has just been named Australian of the Year. A free concert, part of the official celebrations, is getting underway before a mall that is awash with blue ...
On 5 July 1955, an eighteen-year-old art student named William (Bill) Wright was walking past the old women’s cell block of Darlinghurst Gaol eating a Sargents meat pie covered in tomato sauce. Bill Wright described what happened next in a speech he gave in the Cell Block Theatre fifty-five ...
There has never been a better time to be a consumer of scientific information. Thanks to the internet, we have an embarrassment of riches. Aficionados can help themselves to data from NASA satellites and seismic arrays, and to huge databases of information throughout the biological sciences. The broader community is ...
Most of us are employed by businesses, derive our income from them, and spend a large part of our lives in offices, factories, farms and mines. The business world is the stage for our ambition, envy, disappointment and achievement. There is a part of our mind that is always ruminating ...
It's a pretty good result when scientists can turn one species of animal into two, which was thecase just a few days ago, when biologists separated the Lesula monkey from the owl-faced monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But it's an even better result when scientists can ...
Recently in Alice Springs, I watched an Aboriginal woman ahead of me in the queue at a small supermarket struggle to work out how much she had left on her BasicsCard to pay for her groceries. The young man behind the counter persevered for a couple of minutes, then brushed ...
