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‘Growth comes from outside your comfort zone’: why Olympian Emma McKeon refused to give up
Article by Elaine Obran.Emma McKeon has always loved being in the water.When she was very little, she wanted to become a dolphin trainer, a dream that quickly faded when she took her first swimming lesson at age five. By the time McKeon was 12, she had started swimming competitively, and this early…
The language universe is shrinking – can we stop it?
Languages across the planet are disappearing at an alarming rate. ANU psycholinguist Evan Kidd believes multilingual societies are key to reversing this trend.Before 1788, the number of languages spoken in Australia was at least 300 – though experts estimate there may have been more than 700.Today…
Review of the 2024 FUSE Glass Prize Exhibition
By Jiangpu ZhengEstablished in 2016, the FUSE Glass Prize has illuminated the art scenes of Australia and New Zealand for nearly 18 years. The current exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, runs from August 8th to September 6th, showcasing 18 finalist works from the FUSE Glass…
Meet Dr Adam Sargent, lecturer in Anthropology
Dr Adam Sargent is the most recent researcher to join the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, where he brings his unique approach to understanding social inequality and oppression through the lens of linguistic and semiotic anthropology.What is linguistic and semiotic anthropology?…
Music has the power to move us, and here’s the proof
By Kyle Mackey-LawsSarah Mann wants more people singing: in the shower, at birthdays, in choirs and at concerts. Anywhere and everywhere. “I’d been working in education and in the arts and I’d been seeing music and singing devalued in our society, compared to other societies, but also just…
A gap in health sector regulation is leaving Australian care workers unprotected from gendered violence
Gendered violence is widespread in the Australian healthcare system, according to new ANU research. The findings reveal that there are currently no regulatory guidelines designed specifically to protect practitioners from patients. This has left one in four Victorian healthcare workers unprotected…
What is a trained clown and what does the training look like?
Written by Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication (Pop Culture Studies), Australian National UniversityWhere do clowns come from? In popular culture, they may come from alien worlds, such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space, peer out from drains like Pennywise from Stephen King…