Mariners have known since ancient times how to confidently find their latitude by reading the stars and a compass. However, without a map and sight of…
Our cities are becoming more crowded making it is harder to get around. As I teach my teenagers to drive, they have seen more road…
We live in an era where facts seem to be relative rather than absolute. The facts about climate change, history, war and even the past statements…
Imagine if your phone could only reach subscribers who were on the same network, perhaps just allowing calls from Vodafone to Vodafone or Verizon to…
We love to hear from smart pigs! We empathise with Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web as he risks being turned into bacon and we understand the worst…
The disruption of the last decade, including the washup from the Global Financial Crisis, a pandemic and military conflict have challenged globalisation. At the same time,…
Somewhere at the back of a draw in my study is the title to an acre of land on the Moon. It was a legitimate (and…
In late 2021, reporter Matt Doran had the exclusive Australian interview with Adele ahead of the release of her new album. Unfortunately, after he’d flown all…
By the 1980s almost every airline around the world was using technology to manage their customers and meet their increasing security obligations. These were the same…
This month I was invited to participate in the Royal Society of NSW (RSNSW) and Learned Academies Forum on the topic of the “power and…