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Category: Sociopolitical

Untangling the Web #2

Jack frosts handiwork
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Hello all and

welcome to the second edition of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing …

RmX Vs. The Notorious L.I.T.

culture is not a crime
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You may have

read about the 17-year-old German author who recently admitted to pulling large chunks of unedited text from another author’s book. Helenne Hegemann’s book, entitled Axolotl Roadkill, in addition to being a bestseller, …

Australian Friendship

Colour in Perspective
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If there’s one

thing that I’ve been fortunate enough to have throughout my entire life, it’s amazing friends. My high school buddies, my uni mates, my post-grad colleagues; all of them have been supportive, loving, giving folk …

The single story of the Aboriginal

Bernice, Jawoyn Girl
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I have just

finished watching the beautiful, eloquent novelist Chimamanda Adichie give a speech on ‘the danger of the single story’ (thank you to Aditi for tweeting about it, else I might have missed it in …

Equations of war

iraq
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This is why

I loved physics during my undergrad. A video popped up in my TED Talks feed today entitled, ‘The Mathematics of War’. You can watch the video here, and I recommend you do. It’s …