Category: Features
The AI Hype: Take 2
Three years after his first piece, Hal Swerissen takes another look at the AI hype: the real progress, the utopian promises and the doom warnings.
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Is Support At Home worth it for self funded retirees?
Support at Home sharply raises contributions for wealthier older people. Why self-funded retirees needing basic help may be better off paying privately.
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AI: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Artificial Intelligence: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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What We Can Know – A flawed masterpiece
Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know has interesting ideas about history and private lives, but needed a tighter edit. A review by Hal Swerissen.
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Big changes are planned for aged care in 2025. But you’d never know from the major parties
Major aged care changes were due in 2025, yet neither major party said much about them. What was missing from the election debate on aged care.
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New report claims food policy is an ‘utter failure’
A new report calls Australia’s food policy an utter failure. Why poor diet deserves the regulation we’d demand of any product that cost lives.
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Should science be automated?
Sakana.ai’s AI Scientist generates ideas, runs experiments and writes papers on its own. Should science be automated, and what would we lose?
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We have too few aged care workers to care for older Australians. Why? And what can we do about it?
Aged care providers can’t find enough staff, putting care quality and access at risk. Why the workforce shortage exists and what can be done.
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The Woven Code and its Impact
How the Jacquard loom, a 19th-century weaving machine, laid conceptual groundwork for modern computers and the digital world.
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Youth Transgender Care Policies Should Be Driven by Science
With US states split on banning or protecting youth gender care, the case for basing policy on scientific evidence rather than politics.
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Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Pigs sent to the gallows and rats acquitted on a technicality: Nicholas Humphrey explores the strange history of medieval animal trials.
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Who Cares if You Plagiarise?
Copying, borrowing or stealing someone’s work is particularly frowned on by academics, despite being surprisingly popular.
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