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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national non-profit public broadcaster. Prior to 1 July 1983 it was known as the Australian Broadcasting Commission [1]. The ABC provides television, radio and online services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia and overseas via its Asia-Pacific Television service and Radio Australia. The Corporation runs a chain of ABC Shops selling books and audio and video recordings related to its programs. The ABC is sometimes referred to informally as Aunty; the origin of this name derives directly from a nickname of the ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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The psychology of climate change
(Blog Post) Organisers of a youth rally told me earlier this year that climate change was the activist issue for their generation and that young people would turn out to protest in record ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Barack and McCain talk science...yes, really.
November is fast approaching, and Obama and McCain have just announced their running mates. It seems they're also finally getting around to announcing a few science ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Can science measure happiness?
This weekend's edition of All in the Mind probes the science of happiness with a 5 header panel of eminent thinkers and researchers: The pursuit of happiness is a global ...Posted by Leo Romero -
US climate change plan branded 'Neanderthal'
A new plan from US President George Bush which aims to cap greenhouse gases by 2025 has been dismissed as "disastrous" and "Neanderthal" by a group of ministers at a climate ...Posted by Melva Hackney -
Tariffs the real barrier to HIV treatment
The close of the International Aids Society Conference in Sydney ended the publicity train of posturing activists and non-government organisations. In the conference's wake, ...Posted by Dale Penn
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Afghanistan wants ban on reporting attacks - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"All domestic and international media agencies are requested to refrain from broadcasting any incident of violence during the election process from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm on 20 ...Posted by Shannon Jewell -
Mumbai killing spree through gunmen's eyes - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Kill as many people as you can and whatever happens, you must not be taken alive. That was the chilling message relayed by phone from Pakistan to gunmen by their ...Posted by Shannon Jewell -
Call for Iran 'rioters' to be executed
A hardline Iranian cleric has called for the execution of "rioters", in a sign of the authorities' determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Time to go: ABC thrown out of Iran
Middle East correspondent Ben Knight is leaving Iran after journalists were ordered out of the country and told not to report on unauthorised gatherings. Here he describes how ...Posted by Joey Baker -
Jellyfish threaten to 'dominate' oceans
Jellyfish are normally kept in check by fish, which eat small jellyfish and compete for jellyfish food such as zooplankton, he says. But, with overfishing, jellyfish ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Rhetoric or reality? - neuroscience's take on teenage brains
Well it's all about our teenage years this week. On All in the Mind Dr Robert Epstein, author of The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen is ...Posted by Leo Romero -
ABC Radio Australia:Connect Asia:Stories:Journalism students show little interst in newspapers
With the global economic downturn the newspaper industry around the world is in turmoil. Profits are down and journalists are being layed off. But more than that the habits ...Posted by Kristin Gorski -
Getting philosophical, experimentally.
My guests this week are part of an emerging movement of (youngish) experimental philosophers. The vignettes they use in their experiments are deceptively perplexing, great ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Historic cases in psychology
Over the next month, I'm running a series on All in the Mind excavating a handful of historic cases in behavioural research. (The broadcast but not the podcast editions. See ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Computers and your head
Are our ubiquitous interactions with computers radically changing our brains? The way we think? The way we see the world? Do digital natives think significantly differently to ...Posted by Leo Romero
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