Science & Health - Rationale Magazine

Grace Wangge 02/04/2022

Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of ...

Richard Lugg 30/03/2022

In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many ...

Christobel Saunders 13/03/2022

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by ...

Dan Lubman 11/03/2022

The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP ...

Robyn Friend 09/03/2022

The Book of Genesis is a romantic fiction written by a woman. The more I think about it, the more ...

Kathryn Bowen 04/03/2022

As catastrophic flooding devastates parts of Queensland and northern New South Wales, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has ...

Nigel Tapper 02/03/2022

Projected global warming under current global emissions reduction policies will leave many of our region’s human and natural systems at ...

Giselle Woodley 22/02/2022

One year after activist Chanel Contos’ Instagram poll revealed more than 6,700 testimonies of sexual assault – often at high ...

Michelle Rank 15/02/2022

“Can I see a future with gender equity for women and girls in science?” If you had asked me 15 ...

John Cook 10/12/2021

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” This quote appears in ...

Betsy Weatherhead 14/11/2021

With the United Nations’ climate conference in Scotland turning a spotlight on climate change policies and the impact of global ...

John Steley 26/10/2021

Like Sir David Attenborough and many others, I recognise overpopulation as one of the most significant underlying causes of global ...