Every few years, some people in some part of the world come up with the fantastic concept of building a scientific community from scratch, and Australia has whipped itself into a froth over a brand new brain city in the outskirts of Brisbane.
The Vice Chancellor of UQ has impressive engineering credentials, but he should study history a [...]

Oliver Griffiths surveyed the issue of corporate morals, in the wake of President Sarkozy’s recent assertion tha “raising the moral standards of the financial capitalism” is necessary for a viable financial system.
I suspect that while markets may need morals, humans are not particularly qualified to provide them.
Humans are prone to “local optimisation” and “immediate gratification”:

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Bots spewing spam from ADSL connections used to be the de riguer a few years ago. Increasingly, these are getting defeated because these IP addresses have been identified as being “spammy”, and spammers have moved back to using bots to sign up for free email accounts en masse. 
In this case, the attack is via transfer [...]