Life outside sport key to athlete success argues Griffith sports management researcher

Matt Denny, Australian discus thrower and Griffith Business student
Griffith Business School
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When our local athletes enter competition at next month’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) the support systems they have in place should give them an edge, even allowing for home-soil pressure, according to Griffith University researcher Dr Caroline Riot. Joining a Brainfood Breakfast – Sporting Success, Nature vs Nature panel (23 March) for World […]

How humans won the race – evolutionary evidence at World Science Festival

Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
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If the human race had run differently, modern man might have descended from Neanderthals, or some other species of ancient hominin. Instead, Homo sapiens won world domination, and researchers from Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) are at the forefront of re-tracing that ancient ‘race’ to ultimate victory. Griffith University’s signature event […]

Plenty to chew over at World Science Festival — the amazing tales teeth tell

Image credit: Larry Engel (PBS)
Griffith Sciences
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When Griffith Associate Professor Tanya Smith entertains the World Science Festival Brisbaneaudience with the many tales teeth tell, they’ll be pondering much more than what they’ve just eaten at the Brainfood Breakfast event (22 March). The Biological Anthropologist turns back time to reveal the secrets of ancient teeth and the stories they tell of human […]

From our vast past to extreme future – Griffith offers answers at World Science Festival

Griffith at World Science Festival Brisbane
Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
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In its third year, the growing celebration of all things science and the only World Science Festival franchise outside of New York, WSF Brisbane promises to ignite debate and inspire discovery. Running from March 21-25, WSF Brisbanefocuses on the theme of ‘humanity’, and will see Griffith University experts in the thick of discussions delving into […]

That’s a wrap! Griffith at World Science Festival Brisbane

Australian Rivers Institute
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Thousands of people poured through this year’s stellar World Science Festival event – many of them enjoying Griffith University’s own inspiring and engagingprograms. From the sounds of 84 pianos at the Queensland Conservatorium to tackling important environmental issues in main stage events and providing hands-on fun for budding scientists of the future, Griffith had all […]

Robots: threat or friends?

Griffith Sciences
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Technology superstars likeBill Gates and Elon Musk have described Artificial Intelligence as “humanity’s biggestexistential threat” with the potential to “destroy us all”. But Griffith University’s senior lecturer in ICT, Dr David Tuffley, doesn’t think we need to worry. “The reality of it is if you can your head straight with this whole idea then there’s […]