by Peter Karamoskos | Dec 1, 2011 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 10
… there is a linear dose-response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of solid cancers in humans. It is unlikely that there is a threshold below which cancers are not induced.- National Academy of Science, BEIR VII report,...
by Peter Karamoskos | Dec 1, 2011 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers
What now for nuclear power & safety?To many, nuclear energy looks to be a relatively clean and logical choice in an era of increasing resource scarcity. Yet the record requires us to ask painful questions: have we correctly calculated its risks and costs? Are we...
by Ian Milliss | May 19, 2010 | Issue 2, Journal, Papers, Volume 17
The Evatts, the arts, the websWhen I was initially approached about this lecture my first reaction was disbelief. It wasn’t just my natural false modesty, it was knowledge of a particular fact of life, that on the whole visual artists are no longer seen as...
by John Keane | Dec 20, 2009 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Thomas Paine’s vision of growing oldLadies and gentlemen, young and old and in-betweens,You may suppose, with good reason, that silver-haired university professors who lead cloistered lives are unsuitable candidates for speaking about the hardships of old age;...
by Yola Lucire | Dec 9, 2009 | Issue 5, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
There is an answer to fraud: You fight it with science. We have the science. Pharmacogentics.As you saw, Generation RX contained first hand accounts, ignored by authorities and psychiatrists, that some people became confused, hallucinated, homicidal and suicidal on...
by Matt Peacock | Nov 9, 2009 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 9
Right now, Australia’s in the grip of a silent epidemic. It’s an epidemic of the most painful and deadliest cancer you can imagine. It’s a thin, near-invisible, sheet-like cancer that can lurk in your body for ten, twenty, forty years or more, before...
