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Not dog or wolf, dingoes live in the wild but are curious about humans. They can fish, too. It was fascinating to learn more about them when I contributed to this article with Jim Gorman in The New York Times.

After writing about US emergency number 911 for TIME magazine, I was curious to see how Australia's triple-0 compared. Of course, it's a whole other place, much smaller population, different habits around technology, and different regulatory environment....

The idea that science writing can be important, entertaining and even literary is long overdue in Australia. Great thanks to the University of New South Wales Press for blowing preconceptions away with the nation's inaugural volume of Best Science Writing, which I...

Ned Kelly’s legend is all the more glorious for the power of his voice, which you can still hear loud and clear if you read the 1879 Jerilderie letter, a 7400-word account of his actions and a plea for better treatment of Irish settlers in his State. Kelly dictated...

It wasn't that long ago that scientists believed they could read your soul in the lumps on your head. Here are phrenology reports for Ned Kelly and Frederick Deeming (Thank you Michael Newcity for the latter). To start, Ned's phrenologist strikes a note of modesty:...