Last year was one of the hottest on record, with sea levels hitting all time highs and arctic ice at historic lows. We all know of the potential threat to the environment of climate change but did you know the 'financial risk' could be greater than the GFC? Or that it poses serious health risks...

Is the “female brain” better equipped for the complex challenges of the new world? Writer, commentator and journalist George Megalogenis delivers the inaugural Griffith Review lecture. He posits our economy, media, and body politic are hard-wired to the false certainty of the male brain and it’s up to women to be prepared to change the...

Internet pioneer Jaron Lanier explains why it’s time to accept that the original dream of free content and information on the web is failing. In this talk he outlines how he would reconstruct the digital economy, avoid further concentrations of wealth and power and perhaps even save the middle class. Highlights of Who owns the...

The number of maths major enrolments in Australian universities fell by about 15 per cent in the past decade, while at the same time the demand for mathematicians increased by 52 per cent. The proportion of year 12 students taking physics, chemistry and biology fell by about a third in the past 10 years, and...

Global population has passed seven billion and by 2050 it could reach nine billion. That’s an extra two billion people that will need to be fed. How will this challenge be met ? Over the last 50 years we’ve seen a dramatic increase in food production largely due to improved farming techniques and new strains...