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The Anthropocene: Humanity’s planetary wake-up call

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According to Will Steffen, Adjunct Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University, the evidence is now abundantly clear: “[Human] activities now rival – or in some […]

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Blog, Environment and Energy, Science

Holocene or Anthropocene? What’s the big deal?

January 29, 2016by Matteo Gagliardi Leave a comment

Ever since seventeenth-century Danish scientist Nicholas Steno first came up with the idea that rock formations were stratified into horizontal layers according to the periods of time they were laid […]

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Blog, Environment and Energy

How scientists are mapping humanity’s footprint on Earth

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It’s been a common theme in this blog to discuss the different ways humans are shaping the world around them. I’ve argued mankind has assumed an almost god-like posture over nature by positioning […]

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Blog, Climate Change, Environment and Energy

Big history: Science’s origins story

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For anyone who has read my blog, it’s no secret that I have been influenced by Carl Sagan, particularly his documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Sagan described the universe […]

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Blog, Opinion, Philosophy, Science

Rising complexity and the ‘Big Birth’: Crossing the organic threshold

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In my previous posts, A brave new RNA world and Finding the lifeblood for life, I explored how the proposed antecedent to cellular life, the RNA world, could have emerged through the […]

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Rising complexity and the ‘Big Birth’: Finding a lifeblood for life

September 17, 2015by Matteo Gagliardi Leave a comment

In my previous post, A brave new RNA world, I looked at how the RNA world hypothesis is the leading explanation for how cellular life managed to emerge – and, accordingly, how […]

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Blog, Science

Rising complexity and the ‘Big Birth’: A brave new RNA world

September 17, 2015by Matteo Gagliardi Leave a comment

When looking into exploring rising complexity, I was immediately drawn to the origin of life. Organic life is like rising complexity on steroids – it is comprised of a complex […]

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Blog, Science

Rising complexity: how we got from the Big Bang to the human brain

August 14, 2015by Matteo Gagliardi 3 Comments

One question has always perplexed me: how did we get to where we are today – with an intelligent species roaming around a tiny planet, exploiting its natural surroundings while […]

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Blog, Philosophy, Science

Wind turbine syndrome sufferer Tony Abbott is in denial of technological change

June 14, 2015by Matteo Gagliardi 2 Comments

This past week Tony Abbott has shown his true colours regarding renewable energy. The Australian Prime Minister admitted his government is trying to curb the growth of wind power: Frankly it’s […]

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Analysis, Climate Change, Environment and Energy, National, Politics, Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Hume and the nature of religion

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We were born into a mystery, one that has haunted us since at least as long as we’ve been human. We awakened on this tiny world beneath a blanket of stars, […]

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The Analyst. Sounds like a fairly conceited title to give to your first blog. But it's more of a reflection of where I want to go than where I'm at now. I want to smash the news and current affairs open, deconstruct it all and draw out the overarching threads which connect the news together in a tapestry that reveals the way the world works. This is the art of analysis - extrapolating from simple news stories the bigger picture of everything - and I want to master it.
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