November, 2022 - Rationale Magazine

28 Nov

Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe

29/11/2022
By 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 ...

26 Nov

Science & Health

From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers

26/11/2022
By 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...

24 Nov

Ethics & Religion, Feature series

Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy

28/11/2022
By 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...

21 Nov

Business & Economics

Class and inequality in Australia

21/11/2022
By 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...

19 Nov

Law & Politics

Why religious discrimination is okay

20/11/2022
By 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...

17 Nov

Letters to the Editor

Thinking outside the box

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

16 Nov

Ethics & Religion, Feature series

The committee of clerics lording it over Defence

16/11/2022
By 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...

14 Nov

Science & Health

How the world’s fossil fuel addiction compromises our health

14/11/2022
By 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...

12 Nov

Art & Humour

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

10 Nov

Philosophy & Psychology

Why magical thinking is so widespread

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...

08 Nov

Law & Politics

Raised in her father’s church

12/11/2022
By 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...

05 Nov

Law & Politics

A shift towards secularism in Iran

05/11/2022
By 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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