Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly dug hole in the backyard? You might think they are behaving like a paranoid doomsday prepper, but dogs aren’t stockpiling their food due to anxiety about impending
In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education,
Sandra Mu/Getty ImagesPeople of Māori descent account for just a fifth of Aotearoa’s population, but are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. They comprise 37% of people prosecuted by police, 45% of those convicted and 52% of the prison population. Such statistics, however, aren’t easily explained. Differences
Milad Fakurian / UnsplashOpenAI chief executive Sam Altman – perhaps the most prominent face of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom that accelerated with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 – loves scaling laws. These widely admired rules of thumb linking the size of an AI model with its capabilities
Men are earning on average A$9,753 more than women each year in the form of performance bonuses, allowances and overtime pay. That’s according to the latest gender pay gap data released on Thursday by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. It covers more than 8,000 private companies for 2024–25, employing more
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAs the Christmas season looms, with its crowded end-of-year parties, family gatherings and busy travel schedules, many New Zealanders might be asking a now familiar question: should I get another COVID-19 booster? After nearly four years of continuous Omicron circulation, each coming with a distinct summer wave, it
If you live in rural or remote Australia and are diagnosed with cancer, you’re less likely to survive than someone in the city with the same disease. Our research shows people in rural Australia are 13% less likely to survive their cancer, in the first five years after diagnosis. For
Lech Pierchala/PexelsOn Tuesday, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced a raft of changes to how products containing vitamin B6 are packaged and sold. The TGA decision is based on an extensive review, prompted by widespread concerns earlier this year that high doses were causing toxicity and leading to lasting nerve
Annual inflation rose to a 16-month high of 3.8% in October, adding to pressure on the government as it seeks to make savings across the public sector. When governments, whether Commonwealth, state or local, increase spending it adds to inflation. Opinions differ on whether Commonwealth spending makes a significant difference.
New national figures have reiterated what most already know: buying a home in Australia is more unaffordable than ever. The report from research group Cotality found home prices have risen by almost 50% since 2020. It’s therefore unsurprising that among aspiring homebuyers, 85% are unable to purchase a home without
Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of being. A century later, what it means to dream stretches beyond the unconscious into the
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN, CC BY-SAIn the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT
Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly dug hole in the backyard? You might think they are behaving like a paranoid doomsday prepper, but dogs aren’t stockpiling their food due to anxiety about impending
In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education,
Sandra Mu/Getty ImagesPeople of Māori descent account for just a fifth of Aotearoa’s population, but are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. They comprise 37% of people prosecuted by police, 45% of those convicted and 52% of the prison population. Such statistics, however, aren’t easily explained. Differences
Milad Fakurian / UnsplashOpenAI chief executive Sam Altman – perhaps the most prominent face of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom that accelerated with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 – loves scaling laws. These widely admired rules of thumb linking the size of an AI model with its capabilities
Men are earning on average A$9,753 more than women each year in the form of performance bonuses, allowances and overtime pay. That’s according to the latest gender pay gap data released on Thursday by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. It covers more than 8,000 private companies for 2024–25, employing more
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAs the Christmas season looms, with its crowded end-of-year parties, family gatherings and busy travel schedules, many New Zealanders might be asking a now familiar question: should I get another COVID-19 booster? After nearly four years of continuous Omicron circulation, each coming with a distinct summer wave, it
If you live in rural or remote Australia and are diagnosed with cancer, you’re less likely to survive than someone in the city with the same disease. Our research shows people in rural Australia are 13% less likely to survive their cancer, in the first five years after diagnosis. For
Lech Pierchala/PexelsOn Tuesday, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced a raft of changes to how products containing vitamin B6 are packaged and sold. The TGA decision is based on an extensive review, prompted by widespread concerns earlier this year that high doses were causing toxicity and leading to lasting nerve
Annual inflation rose to a 16-month high of 3.8% in October, adding to pressure on the government as it seeks to make savings across the public sector. When governments, whether Commonwealth, state or local, increase spending it adds to inflation. Opinions differ on whether Commonwealth spending makes a significant difference.
New national figures have reiterated what most already know: buying a home in Australia is more unaffordable than ever. The report from research group Cotality found home prices have risen by almost 50% since 2020. It’s therefore unsurprising that among aspiring homebuyers, 85% are unable to purchase a home without
Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of being. A century later, what it means to dream stretches beyond the unconscious into the
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN, CC BY-SAIn the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT
