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The cerebral cartographer Jun 08, 2022

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Professor George Paxinos has mapped more parts of the brain than anyone else in the world. He's been creating atlases of this most mysterious organ for more than 40 years, and is still journeying into unchartered cerebral territory

Michelle versus the Atlantic Ocean Jun 07, 2022

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From working in a bank and behind a bar, to rowing solo across an ocean, the story of Michelle Lee's remarkable transformation and the voyage which made her reconsider her ideas about being alone (R)

Artificial Intelligence — a moral future Jun 06, 2022

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Professor Toby Walsh is a world leader in AI research. He asks questions like, 'can we train machines to be fair?' and 'how do we resist the spread of lethal autonomous weapons?' His job is making sure the future of AI is for better, not worse.

Artificial intelligence has become an essential part of our lives — it helps us to navigate and communicate, and is responsible for incredibly accurate medical technology.

AI is also responsible for lethal autonomous weapons.

It can be used to influence what we buy and how we vote.

Professor Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading researchers in AI.

His research is concerned with how to ensure our future use of AI is for the good of humanity.

Further information

Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI is published by Black Inc

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Putting lipstick on a great white shark Jun 03, 2022

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Rodney Fox was torn apart by a great white shark and it took 462 stitches to put him back together again. He was then instrumental in filming Jaws, the most terrifying shark film of all time. But over time, this salty seadog has become the apex predator's fiercest protector

The Jane Austen cure Jun 02, 2022

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After 50 years of marriage Ruth Wilson took some time alone. In a yellow cottage with a dogwood tree in the garden, she began re-reading the novels of Jane Austen. Eventually, Austen's heroines helped her seize a second chance at happiness

Gillian Bell — life and cake Jun 01, 2022

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Gillian has the best job in the world — travelling overseas to bake sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a couple's story through taste, texture and fragrance. Cake has been a staple in Gillian's life, through immigration, adventure and loss

Megan Davis: the road to the Uluru Statement from the Heart May 31, 2022

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Megan Davis was raised as a 'Queensland Rail kid', then in a book-loving household in a housing commission home. She grew up to become a lawyer at the UN, then began a history-making process of helping Australia's First Nations people speak the truth to power (R)

Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop May 30, 2022

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Mawunyo Gbogbo grew up in a church-going Ghanaian-Australian family in the mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. As a young woman she grabbed the chance to further her media career in New York City at the Bible of Hip Hop, The Source

Wendy McCarthy's bold life May 27, 2022

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How a sheltered girl who grew up on a soldier settlement farm in country New South Wales grew up to become a feminist trailblazer

Upside down in Bass Strait May 26, 2022

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Ocean racing navigator Will Oxley first learned his trade through celestial navigation, using a sextant and the stars. He then began ocean racing around the world, and in 1998, he found himself upside down in a storm-wrecked Bass Strait (R)

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