The environmental and health benefits of bikeshare schemes are way too small by themselves to justify repeal of the helmet law. Any debate on changing the law should be evidence-based and inclusive, writes Alan Davies.
The US Department of Energy has dug up a historic photograph that sums up why nuclear powered jet airliners never took off during the Cold War era, writes Ben Sandilands.
Fremantle Arts Centre's current exhibition We Don't Need A Map is an artistic journey into a unique part of Australia, giving local desert people the chance to tell their stories.
The problem with the preventive health movement is the refusal to accept a basic trade-off of Western society -- that liberty is at times more important than maximising community welfare.
Terrible conditions inside Russian prison colonies and a bust-up with lawyers. Russian-born freelance journalist Sasha Petrova discovers that things aren't looking so good for punk band Pussy Riot.
Greens Senator Dr Richard Di Natale takes issue with Bernard Keane's analysis of "preventative health wowsers". He says our Canberra correspondent is being tricky with numbers.
Around Australia there are many people outside the preventive health sector who are working hard to combat the impact of too much booze, write health researchers Michael Thorn and Sandra Jones.
The controversial "chaplains in schools" program split one Victorian state high school, as teacher Chris Fotinopoulos reports. He asked the students what they thought of religion in school.
Comedian Courteney Hocking told a rape joke in her early days in stand-up. She regrets it now, explaining why rape jokes should be avoided -- particularly by male comedians.
