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Just keep running: Managing a marathon…

Just keep running: Managing a marathon…

by Nicola Ranger | May 15, 2015 | Residents, Sports

What goes through the mind of somebody as they are running a marathon? Well, thanks to Nicola Ranger, the TBS crew will never have to find out first hand…

Book Review: Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Book Review: Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

by Nicola Ranger | Mar 14, 2015 | Featured, TBS Society

Nicola Ranger’s review of Ready Player One, Ernest Cline’s virtual reality tale set in a dystopian 2045 when the boundaries of what’s real and artificial are blurred.

Mars One: More than one way, surely?

Mars One: More than one way, surely?

by Nicola Ranger | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured, The Big Smoke Arena

After Mars One stole headlines with plans to send people on a one-way flight to colonise the Red Planet, Nicola Ranger asks, is there not an easier way?

The Vape – Healthy alternative to smoking or not?

The Vape – Healthy alternative to smoking or not?

by Nicola Ranger | Nov 28, 2014 | Featured, Smoke & Mirrors

To vape or not to vape? As Nicola Ranger looks at “vaping,” an alternative that quitting smokers are embracing, how is the sale of e-cigs still not legalised in Australia?

Reproduction: The birds and bees…and lab flies?

Reproduction: The birds and bees…and lab flies?

by Nicola Ranger | Oct 9, 2014 | Featured, Smoke & Mirrors

Nicola Ranger thinks research by UNSW about telegony in the reproduction of flies is all well and good, but it’s a dangerous flight of fancy to suggest the same may be true for humans.

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