All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.