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Barack and McCain talk science...yes, really.
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Aug. 31, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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Can science measure happiness?
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - May. 18, 2008 (Opinion)
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 ...
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US climate change plan branded 'Neanderthal'
Australian Broadcasting - by No author listed - Apr. 18, 2008 (News Report)
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 ...
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Tariffs the real barrier to HIV treatment
Australian Broadcasting - by Tim Wilson - Aug. 3, 2007 (Opinion)
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, ...
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Call for Iran 'rioters' to be executed
Australian Broadcasting - Jun. 26, 2009 (News Report)
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 ...
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Time to go: ABC thrown out of Iran
Australian Broadcasting - by Ben Knight - Jun. 17, 2009 (Special Report)
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 ...
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Jellyfish threaten to 'dominate' oceans
Australian Broadcasting - by Anna Salleh - Jun. 8, 2009 (Special Report)
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 ...
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Rhetoric or reality? - neuroscience's take on teenage brains
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Mar. 29, 2009 (Review)
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 ...
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ABC Radio Australia:Connect Asia:Stories:Journalism students show little interst in newspapers
Australian Broadcasting - by Reporter: Sen Lam; Interview with Alan Knight, Journalism Professor - Mar. 13, 2009 (Interview)
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 ...
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Getting philosophical, experimentally.
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Feb. 22, 2009 (Interview)
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 ...
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Historic cases in psychology
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Nov. 16, 2008 (Review)
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 ...
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Computers and your head
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Oct. 31, 2008 (Review)
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 ...
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The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful!
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Oct. 25, 2008 (Special Report)
We can't survive without them -- and we've long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory ...
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Head to head over money, markets and morality
Australian Broadcasting - by Natasha Mitchell - Aug. 24, 2008 (Interview)
The global credit crunch, rising interest rates and petrol prices...Are markets moral? Is our hunter-gatherer brain geared for modern capitalism, and do economies work like ...
Overview
| Media | TV |
| Audience | (English) |
| Story Formats | (11), Opinion (10), Review (5), News Report (5), Interview (4), Special Report (3), Breaking News (1) |
| Story Authors | Natasha Mitchell (16), No Author Listed (2), Reporter: Sen Lam (1), Interview With Alan Knight (1), Durk Flintov (1), Journalism Professor (1), Ben Knight (1), Antony Loewenstein (1), South Asia Correspondent Sally Sara The International Committee Of The Red Cross Says Its Workers In Northern Sri Lanka Are Still Not Able To Help Hundreds (1), Tim Wilson (1), Reuters (1), Sue Clarkie (1), Anna Salleh (1), Afp (1) |
| Story Topics | Psychology (14), Climate Change (3), Biology (2), Iran (2), Freedom of Speech (2), Middle East (1), China (1), War (1), Bush Administration (1), Department of Defense (1), Immigration (1), Law Enforcement (1), Other Elections (1), Terrorism (1), Trade (1)... |
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| Edited By | Leo Romero |
| Last Edit | Aug 24, 2008 - 8:33 AM PDT |