June, 2021 - Rationale Magazine

30 Jun

Not just the Sphinx: Ancient Egyptians and their treasured felines

04/08/2022
By Melissa Bailey
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Ancient Egyptian culture and practices have intrigued historians and archaeologists for years. Thought to be the pre-eminent civilisati...

25 Jun

Art, Humour & Poetry

Let’s briefly imagine

21/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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Let's, briefly, presuppose you hadn't fled, Hadn't frozen in the headlights of my interest, Then dashed off, in your maidenly dis...

24 Jun

Education

On prescriptiveness

02/10/2021
By Jeff Lerner
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The 'RSA Daily', expertly and conscientiously compiled by Meredith Doig, reaches my email each weekday morning at a time proving that s...

18 Jun

Art, Humour & Poetry

A cast from the past: An ancient business plan

01/10/2021
By Graham Pitts
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This ancient document, on a papyrus scroll dated 37CE, was recently unearthed in the library of the famous International Archive of Rea...

15 Jun

History

Memories of the factory: The extraordinary war stories of some ‘new Australians’

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
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It was Litchfield Engineering Company, Croyden Park Extension, then an outer suburb of Adelaide, in 1960. My father, who was in charge ...

12 Jun

Ethics & Religion

It’s time to abolish the erroneous idea of sin

04/08/2022
By Paul Monk
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‘Sin’ is a word embedded in our language and culture. It has wide use. Uprooting it would be as difficult as uprooting 'sunrise' or 'su...

08 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

The lost notebooks: Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s extraordinary story

02/10/2021
By Jack Dikian
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's story is one of the great romantic tales of mathematics. It is an account of triumph and tragedy, of a man of gen...

04 Jun

Law & Politics

It’s a generational thing: Should agreements and legislation have a use-by date?

04/08/2022
By Ian Bryce
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In this paper, I propose a new approach to the tenure of agreements, which could have had the potential to avert the Hong Kong crisis, ...

01 Jun

Ethics & Religion

The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society

04/08/2022
By Paul Monk
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RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment,

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