Good Hope

Irvan Damon asks why celebrity trivia sticks while Nobel winners fade, and what that misplaced attention costs economies, organisations and progress.

Max Smart’s rally career and fight for funding

Pain eases and symptoms lift with no active drug at all. Science still has no single explanation for why, and doctors face an ethical bind using it.

Beyond complaining as citizens take action and hold government to account

Special effects artist Beth Brunning explains why gore is only the glitter, and why the genre's real power lies in truths other films won't tell.