Category: Articles

Literary Review 01 Jun 2011 The Australian Literary Review published this great full-page review. It’s a cracker. Mathematician and author Clio Cresswell admits some resistance to reviewing another book about evolution and human behaviour. However, it seems she was pleasantly surprised:…

UNSW TV very kindly made a very funny and entertaining video that summarises some of my points in Chapters 9, 10 and 11 from the book. Please check it out and share the link.

I first published this article in The Conversation on 31 May 2011. It highlights some of the arguments about marriage in Chapter 6 of Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll It’s the sort of news conservative politicians and commentators latch…

I’m a huge fan of Baba Brinkman, the Canadian artist who gave us the Rap Guide to Evolution (as well as the Rap Canterbury Tales, and the Rap Guide to Human Nature). Yesterday he launched his new suite of videos and…

Unsurprisingly Harold Camping’s prediction that the devout would ascend and that Armageddon would commence on May 21 turned out to equal the Millenium bug for sheer anticlimax and wasted column inches. So much has been written, so much of it…

They say a picture tells a thousand words. But does a thousand words tell a picture? Instead of posting a summary of Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World, I have created Wordles (Wordle.com)…

John Birmingham posted an entertaining National Times column today on the call to limit junk food advertising to children (Advertising ban won’t help fat kids).  Responding to the Obesity Policy Coalition’s (OPC) recent launch of an Australian blueprint for legislation…

This piece first appeared on 28 Aril 2011 in the excellent new debate and ideas website The Conversation. Getting research money, especially the no-strings-attached kind that government agencies give out, is difficult. Researchers spend months on each proposal with only…