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Pokies: Taming this gambling gorilla

Pokies are responsible for more than half of gambling problems in Australia. So why do politicians resist reform?

Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

In the season nine premiere of Monash’s podcast, learn how AI, deepfakes and humanoid robots are transforming human interaction and our perception of reality.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

Monash's award-winning podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns for a ninth season that explores pressing global issues including reality in the digital age, climate change in the Indo-Pacific region and the ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Reimagining the future education ecosystem

Education policymakers, businesses and the IT industry are all having their say about what AI in education might look like in the future, but one voice is missing from all these prognostications – the students who it will impact.

Education

An eerie ‘digital afterlife’ is no longer science fiction. So how do we navigate the risks?

Ways to interact with virtual versions of our deceased loved ones are now a possibility – but there’s a raft of ethical and emotional challenges involved.

Technology

Identity crisis: The challenges of naming the dead in the wake of mass disaster

As the death toll mounts from the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, research is underway to utilise facial recognition technology to identify victims in future catastrophes.

Medicine and health

Finding a common pathway to a lower-carbon global economy

If we’re to effectively tackle the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need a better and more coordinated global transformation to environmentally-friendly economies.

Sustainability

Is it OK to kick a robot dog?

You can’t hurt a robot – but do you want to be the kind of person who sinks the boot into a harmless robodog?

Technology

Sexual assault in the metaverse isn’t a glitch that can be fixed

As Meta has historically failed its users on issues of moderation, it’s important to demand clear solutions, more responsibility and accountability from the company before the metaverse is embedded in our everyday lives.

Politics and society

AI in healthcare education: Is it ready to teach the future?

Healthcare is increasingly turning to AI to make patient care more effective, safe, and efficient, but the question remains: Does the reality match the intentions?

Medicine and health

Nurturing mentally healthy minds is more important than ever

As the pandemic continues to threaten our mental health, a groundbreaking “living lab” is set to reimagine how we identify and treat problems.

Medicine and health

Sexual assault in the metaverse is part of a bigger problem

There are connections and continuities between different forms of violence in different spaces, be it online or offline, virtual or physical.

Politics and society

Making music more accessible to the wider community

A new wave of digital “gestural” instruments aims to address the underrepresentation of practising musicians with a disability in the Australian music industry.

Technology

Criminal intent: How the ‘Internet of Things’ can also be a threat

Will there be new opportunities for criminals to use 5G technologies and mobile applications – with higher speeds and more reliability – to conduct crime?

Politics and society

Episode 44: Bias in AI – Are our machines a little too human?

How did assumptions and biases find their way into machines? As groups around the world fight for social equality, is AI helping or hurting our progress?

Podcast: What Happens Next?

The value of face-to-face STEMM teaching during COVID-19

Advances in anatomy education have allowed it to successfully pivot to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, but laboratory dissection remains a cornerstone of the discipline.

Medicine and health

Episode 29: The AI Will See You Now

How has COVID-19 accelerated technological change, innovation and advancement in digital healthcare?

What Happens Next?

Sticking to the script

The Republican National Convention was a political reality TV show featuring themes that have come to define the Trump presidency, from scare tactics to “alternate facts”.

Politics and society

Deciphering COVID dreams

A new global study into COVID-related dreams and daydreams aims to shed light on how they relate to our mental health in the pandemic.

Politics and society

Tuning into COVID-19

Screen time: What we’re watching, what we’re creating, and the iconography that's coming to define the COVID-19 pandemic.

Politics and society

While you were sleeping

When we dream, we get so absorbed by our fantasies that the external world is shut out, even though the brain can still process sensory information.

Medicine and health

Digital Health – The new frontier of healthcare (ep16)

It's clear the role of technology in healthcare is growing and changing. But how these systems and tools are being implemented varies greatly, raising the question: Will digital health improve our lives or complicate them?

A Different Lens

Scholarship success

Monash's most recent cohort of Fulbright, Rhodes and Schwarzman scholars share their passions and plans for the future.

Education

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Pokies: Taming this gambling gorilla

Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

Reimagining the future education ecosystem

An eerie ‘digital afterlife’ is no longer science fiction. So how do we navigate the risks?

Identity crisis: The challenges of naming the dead in the wake of mass disaster

Finding a common pathway to a lower-carbon global economy

Is it OK to kick a robot dog?

Sexual assault in the metaverse isn’t a glitch that can be fixed

AI in healthcare education: Is it ready to teach the future?

Nurturing mentally healthy minds is more important than ever

Sexual assault in the metaverse is part of a bigger problem

Making music more accessible to the wider community

Criminal intent: How the ‘Internet of Things’ can also be a threat

Episode 44: Bias in AI – Are our machines a little too human?

The value of face-to-face STEMM teaching during COVID-19

Episode 29: The AI Will See You Now

Sticking to the script

Deciphering COVID dreams

Tuning into COVID-19

While you were sleeping

Digital Health – The new frontier of healthcare (ep16)

Scholarship success