A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the awesome properties of the Number 42. Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the awesome properties of the Number 42. Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.


Not going to lie, I spent a lot of time playing with this! Put your thesis or publication name into this app to generate a piece of art based on the text.

The Divergent Association Task quickly measures verbal creativity. People who are more creative tend to think of ideas with greater “distances” between them

Feedback from supervisors can be a good or bad experience. Here’s how to get it right

Taking part in the Aussie Backyard Bird Count is easy! Just spend 20 minutes in your favourite outdoor space and tell us about the birds you see during that period. You can submit your results using the app or the web form. Every count helps.

Diversity of input into science creates innovation, but this means you need to learn how to collaborate with people you don’t like.

A clever visualisation that demonstrates the speed of light, by putting it into context.

Uni’s want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly support academics to do it? The Conversation explores this question off the back of some new research
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