By Jose Yong, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University
It’s difficult to imagine a song like Queen’s 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different musical sections and famously ignores the conventional structure of a pop song. It seems almost designed to break the rules of what a hit single should be.
Fifty years later, popular music seems to have moved in the opposite direction. Once artists and producers figure out what makes a commercial hit – from its length…
(Full Story)
|
By Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University
Samantha Murray, CEO, Indigenous Desert Alliance, Indigenous Knowledge
Stan Lui, Director, Five Cubed Environmental, Indigenous Knowledge
Since the first pilot program in 1998, Australia’s Indigenous Protected Areas have grown hugely. How can we strengthen them for the future?
(Full Story)
|
By Shannon Davis, Lecturer in Landscape Planning, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Jacky Bowring, Professor in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Marcus Robinson, Senior Tutor in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Reshaping local boundaries based on river catchments would make for a more cohesive approach to all aspects of water management – and how communities really live.
(Full Story)
|
By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday September 7
“Reading ‘Grattan on Friday: economic life won’t get much better until Australians climb that productivity mountain’, I couldn’t help but think of what I saw Alan Kohler say on ABC TV News (more than once). Kohler considered…
(Full Story)
|
By Audrey Rouyre, Enseignante-chercheuse en Management Stratégique, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Professeur des Universités, Université de Montpellier; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Europe’s leading aerospace industry players have no choice but to work hand in hand to further its space missions and develop critical infrastructure for security and climate protection.
(Full Story)
|
By Bardhyl Jashari
Ahead of North Macedonia’s 35th independence anniversary, an examination of how government-linked praise for Ratko Mladić affects victims, interethnic trust, the rule of law and the country’s European aspirations.
(Full Story)
|
By Carlos Lopes, Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the worsening effects of climate change. These commitments form part of the Paris Agreement, an international climate treaty adopted in 2015 in which countries agreed to take steps to limit global warming.
Doing this requires billions of dollars in climate finance for clean energy and for making agriculture,…
(Full Story)
|
By Deon de Jager, Researcher in ancient DNA, University of Copenhagen
Eline Lorenzen, Professor of Molecular Natural History, University of Copenhagen
Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent decades, all we knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture.
Ancient DNA is damaged and degraded genetic material often obtained from fossils thousands of years old. It’s giving scientists insights into hidden species diversity and the way populations expanded and contracted, based on changes in genetic diversity across time.
These ancient DNA studies have in large part been carried out in cold regions at northern latitudes, where low…
(Full Story)
|
By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
There have long been calls for digital duty of care laws in Australia – since well before the under-16s social media ban. But enforcement may be tricky.
(Full Story)
|
By Sanjib Chaudhary
I never thought of documenting the Indigenous Tharu folklore until my grandmother left this world. Now she is no more with us, I yearn for those priceless words of wisdom.
(Full Story)
|