Rob recently participated, together with Professor Bill von Hippel (Psychologist at the University of Queensland) and Helen Statman (performance artist from the troupe Cocoloco) in a Valentine’s day event at the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus). The evening’s events were…
As the 2011 cricket World Cup dawdles toward the knockout stages, I’ve been mining the team sheets for any reason to believe my beloved South African Proteas can overcome their long tradition of wobbling in this tournament and finally secure…
Alex Jordan‘s massive win in the People’s Choice award at the Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania Three-Minute Thesis Competition led to a gig behind the microphone with the ABC. Alex recently recorded this wonderful audio piece on the costs of promiscuity. Listen…
A lovely segment from this week’s American 60 Minutes. He’s an amazing intellect, and an unbelievable speaker. I have to appreciate the honest candour with which he’s grappling with cancer. The world needs more folks like Hitchens, willing to question…
So Natalie Portman, fresh from her Oscar triumph, is up the duff. Good for her. Yet to the shock of the American reactionary right, whose ranks grow faster than an infestation of gastro can spread through a day-care centre, the…
Some folks were just born hot, others were made that way, often with silicone and an airbrush. So what should mortals who don’t score a perfect ten be doing on Valentines Day? Rob Brooks and Alex Jordan derive three big…
Victorian naturalists, products of their stultifying and prudish age, held birds to be paragons of fidelity and wholesome family values. But the advent of modern DNA analysis showed that when bird-watchers pack up their binoculars and head home for dinner,…
A recent paper I wrote with Steve Simpson and David Raubenheimer explores how our evolved biological mechanisms that control how much we eat combine with modern economic circumstances to create the obesity crisis.
News of Rob’s upcoming appearance in Adelaide, alongside the awesome Professor Bill von Hippel.
A short tale about our recent exchange with Lise de Bruine, Ben Jones and Tony Little in the pages of Proceedings of the Royal Society, and the recent article on that exchange in the Economist.