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why agile won’t help young Australian start-ups build lasting value from innovation

Linear or super linear scaling is not commonly found in natural or artificial systems. ... AI technologies were not developed in an agile fashion. The machine learning and natural language processing algorithms underpinning many products today have been
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/03/02/why-agile-won_t-help-young-australian-start-ups-build-lasting-va.html
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Joking your way to the top: why laughter is the best medicine for stressed executives

Leaders of many organisations are under pressure to balance their investment in existing markets and products with investment in market development and product innovation. ... We realised that humour was absolutely commonplace. It wasn’t something
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/01/04/joking-your-way-to-the-top--why-laughter-is-the-best-medicine-fo.html
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Why Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a cult classic

Brontë’s name is used to sell everything from food to dry-cleaning products. ... Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaption. Contrary to Charlotte Brontë’s revisioning, however, Wuthering Heights was not purely the product of a terrible divine inspiration
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/07/31/why-emily-bronte-s-wuthering-heights-is-a-cult-classic.html
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Row over China FTA risks backfiring badly on Australia

They might start to worry about the fact that, when the relationship is weighted almost wholly in Australia's terms and it is making huge profits out of natural resource exports ... from. Perhaps after a quarter of a century of solid gross domestic
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2015/09/02/row-over-china-fta-risks-backfiring-badly-on-australia.html

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Natural disasters affect some of the most disadvantaged

Australia has a long history of natural disasters, from catastrophic bushfires to flooding rains. ... While bushfires were the most common type of natural disaster, floods affected the highest number of LGAs.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/11/08/natural-disasters-affect-some-of-the-most-disadvantaged.html
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We should learn to love germs

The US Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of antibacterial compounds such as triclosan and triclocarban in household products such as liquid soaps. ... One of the most surprising findings was the evidence that these products were not
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/09/13/we-should-learn-to-love-germs.html
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Are we facing a catastrophic bushfire season?

cyclones and a myriad other natural hazards earlier in each hazard season, increasingly overlapping. ... He leads the Asia-Pacific Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Research Group. This article was republished from The Conversation under a Creative
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/09/11/are-we-facing-a-catastrophic-bushfire-season.html
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Is storytelling bad for science

So, what could be wrong with urging scientists to take advantage of our natural storytelling skills? ... Bugs in our reasoning from the confirmation bias to the gambler’s fallacy make our natural thought processes deeply subjective and partial.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/07/25/is-storytelling-bad-for-science.html
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Navigating the post-truth debate: some key co-ordinates

Statements of fact are always a product of their context and time, and of the interests and perspectives of particular people.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/05/16/navigating-the-post-truth-debate--some-key-co-ordinates.html
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6 ways politics "trumps" health in America

By law, the Consumer Product Safety Commission cannot regulate two products: firearms and tobacco.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/07/17/6-ways-politics-trumps-health-in-america.html