Does the truth set us free? – Ulrika Carlsson, PhD in Philosophy at Yale University and writer for Axess Magazine in Stockholm, Sweden
Why social liberals are not moral relativists – Thomas Hurka, University Professor and Jackman Chair in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto
How to prevent AI from taking over the world – Ruth Chang, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford
Why Donald Trump was the ultimate anarchist – Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and Director of the University Centre for Human Values at Princeton University
Kelp forests along the state’s east coast were once so dense they were marked on shipping maps. But climate change has warmed the ocean, causing a 95 per cent decline.
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How do 50 large foam blocks, wrapped in a cover of sandstone material, complicate ideas of democracy? Andreas Angelidakis’s
DEMOS, currently on show at UQ Art Museum, evokes elitist notions of the sandstone institution, while drawing on the foundations of Ancient Greek democracy. This form of democracy gave citizenship only to wealthy males, born in Greece.
DEMOS complexifies this by asking all citizens, residents, and visitors to engage with, advocate for, and discuss who has a say in the creation of their own
DEMOS structures.
Using
DEMOS as its basis, we unpack the state of so-called liberal democracy in present-day Australia, including the idea that democracy is inclusive of all people. Join experts Professor Katharine Gelber (Head of UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), Dr Glenn Kefford (ARC DECRA Research Fellow, UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), and James Blackwell (Research Fellow, Centr
Tara A. Kilgallen of
Framingham has joined ERA Key as a Realtor in the
Framingham office.
Kilgallen has 20 years of experience as a yoga instructor in Massachusetts and California, and is currently as instructor at Common Ground Yoga in
Framingham. She previously served as co-director of Yoga at Lumina Mind Body Studios - Longfellow Health Clubs in
Wayland and
She was also a yoga instructor at Bosse Sports in
Sudbury. Before that, she was the director of yoga and retail manager at Tushita Heaven in San Juan Capistrano, California.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge and completed her real estate training at Freedom Trail Realty School in Cambridge.
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Clive Palmer is running a multimillion-dollar campaign against the corporate regulator. The only question is: What does he hope to achieve?
By
Mike Seccombe.
Queensland businessman Clive Palmer.
You could hardly think of two more dissimilar people than James Shipton and Dee Snider.
Shipton, the outgoing chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Geelong Grammar old boy, former Goldman Sachs banker, scion of a patrician Melbourne Liberal Party family, looks like he was born in a business suit.
By contrast, Snider’s glam-metal persona as lead singer and main songwriter of the band Twisted Sister involved a rippling bare torso, flying blond curls, lots of tattoos and extravagant eye shadow, rouge and lipstick.