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30
Sep
2024

Kapow! ANU researcher uses comic books to explain green finance

By Luis PerezIt wasn’t until she found herself lining up for a 300-metre head-to-head race on horseback that Associate Professor Caroline Schuster truly understood the meaning of financial speculation in rural Paraguay.By the time she was ready to gallop bareback atop Cohete – the fierce horse that…

30
Sep
2024

Benjamin Netanyahu is triumphant after Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. But will it change anything?

By CAIS Research Scholar Ian ParmeterIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed a major victory following the assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, saying it would change “the balance of power in the region for years to come”.This may be going further than the…

26
Sep
2024

‘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…

Evan Kidd
26
Sep
2024

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…

20
Sep
2024

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…

19
Sep
2024

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?…

19
Sep
2024

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…