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Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says it’s “fair” Australians have questions about the COVID Trace app, insisting it was a “matter of trust”. The government will next week launch its contact tracing app, which would require a 40 per cent uptake to be effective. Speaking with Sky News, Ms Rowland said Labor was open to …

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Modern forensic science owes more than we realize to technologies developed by the British colonial government in India. Graphology (handwriting analysis) scaled impressive heights in the hands of the Hardless family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), even as the use of these techniques was on the wane in English courts. The serological analysis of bloodstains found …

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Edgar Allan Poe, the original American Luddite, once described science as “a vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” It had, he insisted, “dragged Diana from her car … driven the Hamadryad from the wood … torn the Elfin from his green grass,” and stolen from him “the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.” In other …