Science down under

Science down under

Your Grandpa Syd (who I hope won't mind my writing to you in this vein) mentioned that you were thinking about a career in Australia, now that your PhD is out of the way, so I'll give the low-down from an insider's point of view. I'll be quite frank, and what I have to tell you might bruise a few egos, so please try to keep it confidential. Of course there are good things about doing science in...

Science and medicine down under.

Western Australia is famous for its wild flowers, but its doctors are even wilder. Or so Bruce Shepherd, president of the Australian Medical Association (and a Sydneysider), told the opening session of the BMA's overseas meeting in Perth. The BMA arrived in Perth in early November to find not only a vast isolated land of desert and sea but also streets with Scottish names and Father Christmases...

A dean down under.

South Australia is a progressive state. It has a Premier who seems to be an intelligent intellectual. He heads a Labour government, which therefore has some accord with the central Commonwealth Government of Mr. Gough Whitlam. Our premier, Mr. Don Dunstan, known as "Donnie," is a lawyer who was able to devote an hour's television programme to poetry and his delight in it, and he recited it too....

Editorial--ICOPA down under.

Light from down under.

Coral-algae symbiosis is a key feature of tropical corals and is highly dependent on the efficiency with which solar energy is attenuated by the coral. Scleractinian corals are among the most efficient light collectors in nature because of the modulation of the internal light field in the coral skeleton. Interestingly, coral skeleton particles composing the sandy bottoms in reef margins sustain...