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The inner athlete: medical imaging and psychology at the Olympic Games

August 10, 2016
At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Dr Scott Burne was a medical registrar and volunteer working with the Olympic Games Polyclinic. They were his first Games and he was a little awestruck by the calibre of competitors he was treating, but recalls putting this aside to become a calming presence for athletes in distress.
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A digital revolution coming down the freight-rail track

August 08, 2016
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal a day rumbling out of 50 mines, along a network of some 2,700 kilometres of heavy-haul track to three coastal hubs for export. Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network (CQCN) is one of the largest coal rail networks in the world. It carries dozens of trains running mine to port and port to mine—around 85 services daily—aiming to synch with the movements of ships bound for Japan, China, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Now, consider that most of that rail line is single track. Let’s pull over for a moment.
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Olympian Cam McEvoy: putting science into swimming

August 08, 2016
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The clean slate: Summit drives renewable energy ideas

August 05, 2016
It was plug and play for the renewable energy community, at the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2016, held last week in Sydney.
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Lights, Power, Passion

August 04, 2016
Lights, cameras, action! The Olympic Games as we experience them in the 21st Century wouldn’t take place without boosting the infrastructure of host cities. In Rio, 250 megawatts of extra energy is required to run the Games. Twenty percent of that energy, or enough to power a city of 200,000 people, will feed into the International Broadcast Center, the hub for worldwide viewing.
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Podcast: How to look after your Olympian

August 03, 2016
The Olympic Games is a once-in-four-years thrill for most fans, with instant experts on all manner of sports commentating from couches around the globe.
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On call for Olympic athletes: MRIs, ultrasounds and digital X-rays

August 03, 2016
The Olympic Games is a festival of physicality, with the superhuman feats of thousands of athletes, a source of awe for billions of mortals spectating from couches around the world. Behind those peak performances are hundreds of doctors, physios, massage therapists, dietitians, conditioning coaches and others.
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Driving peak performance for Rio 2016

August 01, 2016
Think of the preparation for the Olympic Games as running on twin tracks: one for the athletes and the other for the host city. Both will be subjected to extraordinary demands as they go on show to the world. Both have one chance to get it right for these Games.
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A day in the life of an energy-grid czar

July 28, 2016
Taking you to the software summit of energy control.
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A roadmap for Australian smart cities

July 28, 2016
Australia’s cities are celebrated as fine places to inhabit, with our capitals regularly jostling with each other for top spots on worldwide liveability lists. However, the sprawl of a few large centres puts pressure on everything: roads and transportation; housing, offices and cultural hubs; energy, water and overall sustainability; convenience; safety and, ultimately, liveability.
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