by Christine Kenneally BH | Mar 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
It has been a thrill to put together a secular Sermon for the first School of Life series here in Melbourne. Under the rubric of...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Dec 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
What kind of person calls in a bomb threat after the Connecticut tragedy? I lived in New York in 2001, and in the shaky days following September 11, a plague of hoax threats and prank calls washed over the city and then spread out over the world. I wrote about...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
On a windy autumn day on a green hill near Gisborne in Victoria, Lyn Watson, the co-founder of the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre, calls out to Snapple, a male dingo. The red-blond canine trots over and sits patiently as Watson...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Nov 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ned Kelly and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine get some respect in "The Best Australian Science Writing 2012." With thanks to editors Elizabeth Finkel, and Jim Gorman.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Nov 15, 2012 | Games, Humans
A case study in sport has a lot in common with case studies in medicine or scientific discovery. It follows a standard arc even as it tells an individual tale. All the classic tensions are there: the individual versus the world, the expertise of...