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Monthly Archives: November 2022

28 Nov
Science & Health

Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe

  • 29/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Nathan Kilah
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To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration fr...

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26 Nov
Science & Health

From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers

  • 27/06/2023
  • By author-avatar David James
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For most of the first 15 years of the 21st century, there was a fierce debate between rationalist supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory...

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24 Nov
Ethics & Religion, Feature series

Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy

  • 11/01/2025
  • By author-avatar Si Gladman
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This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. During the G...

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21 Nov
Business & Economics

Class and inequality in Australia

  • 21/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Jessica Gerrard
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In Australian news, opinion and popular culture, the figures of the hipster and the bogan are everywhere. These figures are proxies for...

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19 Nov
Law & Politics

Why religious discrimination is okay

  • 20/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Gary Bakker
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To ‘discriminate’ is a very useful, indeed necessary, activity. The original and broader meaning of the word is to recognise and unders...

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17 Nov
Letters to the Editor

Thinking outside the box

  • 17/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Rationale Magazine
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Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

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16 Nov
Ethics & Religion, Feature series

The committee of clerics lording it over Defence

  • 16/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Si Gladman
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This article is the first in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Every three months, Australian taxpayers pay to s...

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14 Nov
Science & Health

How the world’s fossil fuel addiction compromises our health

  • 14/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Celia McMichael
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Climate change threatens to undermine the health of people around the world, with more intense and frequent extreme weather even...

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12 Nov
Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

  • 12/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Matt Bissett-Johnson
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See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

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10 Nov
Philosophy & Psychology

Why magical thinking is so widespread

  • 11/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Dimitris Xygalatas
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Growing up in Greece, I spent my summers at my grandparents’ home in a small coastal village in the region of Chalkidiki. It was warm a...

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08 Nov
Law & Politics

Raised in her father’s church

  • 13/03/2024
  • By author-avatar Si Gladman
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In 2019, when Clare Heath-McIvor wrote on her blog about why she wasn’t a dominionist anymore, she recalled that her entire chur...

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05 Nov
Law & Politics

A shift towards secularism in Iran

  • 05/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Hossein Dabbagh
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My friend was in Tehran during protests after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police (Gasht-e Ersh...

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