“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.” via good latitude
Australia needs compassion culture: Mackay
Fair go gone: How do we celebrate the 'lucky country'?
What does it mean to be Australian in 2019? As Australia's national holiday has increasingly become hijacked by extreme voices - how do we redefine what it means to be a proud Australian?
Order of Australia and Public Service Medal recipients
WHO'S WHO: The 48 public servants from across Australia who were recognised for their service, innovation, leadership and achievement.
'Counting stars instead of money': Meet the Australians living on the road
Order of Australia and Public Service Medal recipients
WHO'S WHO: The 48 public servants from across Australia who were recognised for their service, innovation, leadership and achievement.
'Counting stars instead of money': Meet the Australians living on the road
Yukultji Napangati's shimmering outback images shine in New York
Until she was 14, Yukultji Napangati had no contact with the modern world. Now she has a solo art exhibit in New York - and fans including Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Read: All about Sydney's hidden swimming spots
Wild Swimming is a guide to 250 of the best rock pools, beaches, river and waterholes in the city.
Rips: A lesson in how not to panic
I jumped into a rip. On purpose. Unlike the 19 people who fatally drown in rips each year, I survived.
- Meet this year's Australia Day Honours recipients
- Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people
Nicholas Gruen, in The Conversation
Here’s an idea. Why don’t we award honours to encourage people to do more than their job? Knowing awards are reserved for people who do more than their jobs might encourage us to choose more selfless and socially committed lives at the outset of our careers.
A $220,000 government grant was given to Warren Mundine's company last year for his Sky News show.buzzfeed.com/joshtaylor/war…
Influencers: consumer champions or chancers? Blessing or Burden ...
When influencer marketing emerged it was viewed as a breath of fresh air and an empowering movement that provided an authenticity that was in sharp contrast to traditional advertising. However, this sense of authenticity has been eroded by a rush to jump on the influencer gravy train, and a backlash against influencers attempting to blag free goods and services.
Fans Shocked After Marie Kondo Reveals She Has Been Dating Untidy Cupboard For Past 6 MonthsThe Onion. Dateline — you guessed it — “Brooklyn, NY.”
Kondo is right. Here's what clutter does to your body
Trump just waved a white flag of surrender (and Pelosi made him do it)
Donald Trump announces deal to temporarily end shutdown
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The war on bric-a-brac. Long before Marie Kondo, Unitarian ministers and interior designers fought against Victorian-era excess with calls for “Simplicity!” and “No junk!” No Junk
How Martin Seligman stopped worrying and learned to love writing pop psychology. “‘I’m rich,’ I announced to my mother on the phone
How Martin Seligman stopped worrying and learned to love writing pop psychology. “‘I’m rich,’ I announced to my mother on the phone
USNews: “The research is all but irrefutable: Parents of very young children who talk to, read and engage with them as often as possible help them build literacy skills at an early age – an educational foundation that can give kids a jump-start on future academic success. Also certain: Parents of very young children usually have to do a lot of laundry. And low-income families tend to bring their kids with them to public laundromats. Those truths converge once a week at select neighborhood laundromats in Chicago. That’s when librarians from one of the nation’s largest library systems lay down colorful mats, oversized board books and musical shakers beside the industrial washing machines and wire laundry baskets.
“This web site presents one glyph for each of the world’s writing systems. It is the first step of the Missing Scripts Project, a long-term initiative that aims to identify writing systems which are not yet encoded in the Unicode standard. As of today, there are still 146 scripts not yet encoded in Unicode. The Missing Scripts Project is a joint effort of
- Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT), Nancy, France
- Institut Designlabor Gutenberg (IDG), Hochschule Mainz, Germany
- Script Encoding Initiative (SEI), Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, USA
- Here you can see our talk at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium”
FIELD-TESTED: A teachable moment doesn’t have to arise naturally; even a simulated one helped make British police officers 21% less likely to be hooked by a phishing email, in one of a series of behavioural nudges tested in the last year.
CAREERS: NSW’s first Chief Information Security Officer is departing, and Victoria is after a new chair for its Essential Services Commission, plus more appointments and promotions.
MORAL LICENSING: Research shows few among us are above a little cheating, especially if the opportunity arises and we're unlikely to get caught, but most refrain from taking every chance to help themselves by doing something naughty.
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Edward Snowden and the millennial conscience
Simon
Kuper, in Financial Times
If data is for good, then trust is king
Maria
Katsonis, in The Mandarin
In the first of a
four-part series, The Mandarin examines the opportunities of the great
data boom and why gaining community licence is key to protecting people’s
information and realising the benefits. (Partner article)
Leading US privacy scholar weighs up two schools of thought on data management
Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Insititue (AEI), Mark Jamieson weighs up open versus closed information systems, and the complications for policymakers when legislating portability. (Partner link)
Leading US privacy scholar weighs up two schools of thought on data management
Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Insititue (AEI), Mark Jamieson weighs up open versus closed information systems, and the complications for policymakers when legislating portability. (Partner link)
