Chain Reaction #125 -- November 2015

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Emerging tech and challenging the privatised uni − Jeremy Tager
The universities we need − Raewyn Connell
What's wrong with privatising universities? − Jeannie Rea
A focus on private investment means universities can't fulfil their public role − Margaret Thornton
How corporate investment corrodes the public research environment − Jack Heinemann
Why do universities still invest in fossil fuels? − Carol Richards
A shift towards industry-relevant degrees isn't helping students get jobs − Kristen Lyons and Richard Hill

Nuclear power's long farewell?
Should Australia become the world's nuclear waste dump − Jim Green
Summing the health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster − Dr Ian Fairlie
Shenhua Watermark Coal – the fight for the Liverpool Plains continues − Aidan Kempster and Phil Evans
The fantasy of cheap, safe nuclear energy − Mark Diesendorf
The renewable energy revolution
Renewables can do 100%, but when will Australia see it done? − Alastair Leith
Eight things Malcolm Turnbull should do on climate, renewables − Giles Parkinson
Geoengineering: Striking targets or missing the point? − Ben Courtice
Poison or poverty? Glencore's blackmail of Borroloola − Lauren Mellor

Greening the Internet − Felicity Ruby
The Great Artesian Basin, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria and inland Australia at risk − John Glue
A spoonful of sugar is not enough to help the TPP go down − Sam Castro and Kat Moore
Minmetals and the lead poisoning of Rosebery Tasmania − Anthony Amis
Inside Friends Of The Earth's Yes 2 Renewables Campaign − Lisa de Kleyn
FoE's campaign to stop whaling 1976-78 − Bro Sheffield-Brotherton
Black Hole documentary review − Phil Evans

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