Chris Garvey

On the colour of wing scales in butterflies: iridescence and preferred orientation of single gyroid photonic crystals | Interface Focus Lycaenid butterflies from the genera Callophrys, Cyanophrys and Thecla have evolved remarkable biophotonic gyroid nanostructures within their wing scales that have only recently been replicated by nan...

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Mailata's Super Bowl win completes one of Australia's great sporting triumphs Jordan Mailata's first experience with the Super Bowl was in 2017 watching Beyoncé's half-time show. Now he is a champion and completes one of the greatest sporting triumphs by anyone born on Australi...

To paraphrase the great American intellectual Noam Chomsky, "sport is the opiate of the masses". In this context an Australian competing in the superbowl, under the watchful eye of Emperor Trump and his court, falls into this metaphor quite nicely.

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Gaza would suggest the lesson, empathic or the realpolitik, was not learned. It remains the same.

The Strange Power of Laughter An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.

For some science is not a laughing matter. For the team that opposes a difficult problem it can be recognition of a shared humanity. In the words of William Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
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