Editor, Aeon+Psyche
Cameron is a writer, editor and underwater anthropologist in Melbourne, Australia. After a decade in Tokyo working as an arts journalist, he began doctoral studies at Deakin University involving fieldwork with scientists and divers at coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Cameron is a former books and culture editor for The Japan Times, and a past contributor to CNN, ArtAsiaPacific, Dwell, Apartamento, and art-agenda.
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Earth science and climate
The Antarctic paradox
The most protected place on Earth has become one of the most threatened – and threatening. Can its problems be solved?
Alejandra Mancilla & Peder Roberts
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Knowledge
Imaginology
We need a new kind of approach to learning that shifts imagination from the periphery to the foundation of all knowledge
Stephen T Asma
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Earth science and climate
A new Earth rises
How did the planet replace the nation-state to become the prime political object of the 21st century?
Erik Isberg
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Biology
The split-body problem
Why we need to stop thinking about parents, offspring and sex when we try to understand how life reproduces itself
Gunnar O Babcock
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Pyrocene Park
Fire is a planetary feature, not a biotic bug. What can we learn from Yosemite’s experiment to restore natural fire?
Stephen J Pyne
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Environmental history
Contaminated kinship
If your hometown were beset with toxic dust, like Australia’s Broken Hill, would you feel any less connected to it?
Lilian Pearce