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Introduction

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2018

[1] Adrei Gorbunov, "Who was the mysterious man without person, whose body 70 years ago found on the beach in Australia," Russian Media Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ferbuary 23, 2018.

[2] Michael Savvas, "Adelaide and the Somerton man: Stephen King's dirty little secret," Adelaide Review, April 23, 2018, pp. 12–13.

[3] Alice Klein, "Who was the Somerton man?" New Scientist, Vol. 238, No. 3180, 2018, pp. 33–35.

[4] Mitchell Bennett, "Understanding Curiosity," Western Independent, Nov 30, 2018.

[5] [Staff Reporter], "M.A. Sargent Medal 2019," Adelaide University Staff News, Dec 18, 2018, p.3.

2017

[6] Roy Bainton, "Tamam shud," Fortean Times, March 24, 2017, pp. 30–35.

[7] Brett Williamson, "War on waste: Why we should recycle our old mobile phones," ABC News, May 24, 2017.

[8] Robyn Mills, "Stroke patient improvement with a brain computer interface," Newswise, August 8, 2017.

[9] [Staff reporter], "Researchers show how brain computer interface improves motor function in stroke patients," News Medical, August 30, 2017.

[10] [Staff reporter], "Stroke patients 'improve' with brain-computer interface." Medical Design Technology, August 30, 2017.

[11] Julia Samuel, "Brain-computer interface might improve motor function in stroke patients." Medindia, September 1, 2017.

[12] Sam Varghese, "Stroke patients 'improve' with brain-computer interface," IT Wire, September 1, 2017.

[13] [Staff reporter], "Stroke patients 'improve' with brain-computer interface," S.A.F.E, September 8, 2017.

[14] Diana Brown, "Codes and a corpse: The Somerton beach man mystery persists," How Stuff Works, September 15, 2017.

[15] Newsroom, "Stroke patients show improvement with a brain-computer interface," AT Today, September 26, 2017.

2016

[16] Lisa Zyga, "Why too much evidence can be a bad thing," Physics Org, January 4, 2016.

[17] Justin Weinberg, "The paradox of unanimity," Daily Nous, January 7, 2016.

[18] Felicity Nelson, "Research reveals the problem with overwhelming evidence," Lawyers Weekly, January 13, 2016.

[19] David Ellis, "Overwhelming evidence? It's probably a bad thing," Physics Org, January 12, 2016.

[20] Stephen Luntz, "When too much evidence can be bad," IFL Science, January 16, 2016.

[21] Luke Roney, "When everyone agrees, something isn't right," newser, January 17, 2016.

[22] [Staff reporter], "Nuclear power is not the answer," Global Research, January 19, 2016.

[23] Dana Dovey, "Unanimous agreement is improbable, and usually a clear indication that something is wrong: too good to be true," Medical Daily, January 19, 2016.

[24] Dorairajan Balasubramanian, "Lies, damned lies and statistics," The Hindu, January 25, 2016.

[25] David Post, "The paradox of unanimity," The Washington Post, February 8, 2016.

[26] Laura Moss, "Why do languages have different sounds for the same animals?" Mother Nature Network, February 23, 2016.

[27] David Post, "The Paradox of Unanimity" The Washington Post, February 8, 2016.

[28] Dani Cooper, "Accuracy of criminal identification may be reduced if all witnesses agree" Science News, March 23, 2016.

[29] [Staff reporter], "The animal translator" Smith Journal, Vol. 18, Autumn, 2016.

[30] [Staff reporter], "On the trail of the Somerton Man," Huffington Post, June 5, 2016.

[31] Derek Abbott, "Nuclear power: Game over," Australian Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 4, 2016, pp. 8–16.

[32] "2602UMSAU-Unidentified Male," The Doe Network, August 8, 2016.

[33] Craig Cook, "Scientist at centre of DNA break-throughs in cold case appeals for government to exhume the body Somerton Man to finally “give him name," Daily Telegraph, October 1, 2016.

[34] Craig Cook, "Why Somerton Man was probably native American," Adelaide Advertiser, October 2, 2016.

[35] Karin Brulliard, "Why French pigs say groin, Japanese bees say boon and American frogs say ribbit," Washington Post, October 12, 2016.

2015

[36] Doug Robertson, "Forensic experts mount new case to exhume body of Somerton Man to establish his identity," Adelaide Advertiser, April 14, 2015, p. 10.

[37] Leesa Smith, "Mysterious dead body known as 'Somerton Man' that washed up on a beach 67 years ago with a strange note in his trouser pocket will be exhumed," Daily Mail, April 15, 2015.

[38] [Staff reporter], "T-rays to the rescue," International Innovation, Vol. 175, 2015, pp. 60–62.

[39] [Staff reporter], "Solving the Somerton mystery," Adelaide Advertiser, May 25, 2015.

[40] Lynton Grace, "Somerton Man mystery New details revealed of Jo Thomson nurse in the case," The Courier Mail, May 29, 2015.

[41] Lynton Grace, "Nursing a mysterious secret," Adelaide Advertiser, May 30, 2015, p. 29.

[42] Liam Quinn, "Was Somerton Man a US spy who had a secret love child with an Adelaide nurse?," Daily Mail, May 31, 2015.

[43] Lisa Zyga, "After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a mystery (Part 1: History and Code)," Physics Org, June 2, 2015.

[44] Lisa Zyga, "After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a mystery (Part 2: DNA, isotopes, and autopsy)," Physics Org, June 3, 2015.

[45] Gary Nunn, "How to Sneeze in Japanese," Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 4, 2015.

[46] [Staff reporter], "David Dewhurst Award," Engineers Australia, October, 2015.

[47] Uri Friedman, "How to snore in Korean," The Atlantic, Nov 27, 2015.

[48] Stacy Conradt, "The mysterious death of the Somerton Man," Mental Floss, Nov 30, 2015.

2014

[49] Lynton Grace, "South Australia's X-Files: Part 2 - the Somerton Man mystery and the secrets of Adelaide's tunnels," Adelaide Advertiser, June 9, 2014.

[50] Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Giacomo Indiveri, and Derek Abbott, "Neuromorphic engineering: neuromimetic computation for understanding the brain," IEEE Life Sciences, June, 2014.

[51] Lynton Grace, "Has part of the mysterious Somerton Man code been cracked?" Adelaide Advertiser, July 3, 2014.

[52] Peter Butt, "Somerton Man," Catcher Magazine, Vol. 1, October, 2014, p. 6.

[53] Gary Nunn, "Why do pigs oink in English," The Guardian, November 18, 2014.

[54] Lisa Zyga, "Attack on classical cryptography system raises security questions," Physics Org, December 17, 2014.

[55] Ganar perdiendo "la paradoja de Parrondo y sus aplicaciones, por Juan M. R. Parrondo," Anxo Sánchez, December 19, 2014.

2013

[56] [Staff reporter], "Detection tool probes ancient text," The Daily Telegraph, February 21, 2013.

[57] Ashley Hall, "Software solves author puzzle," ABC News, February 21, 2013.

[58] [Staff reporter], "New findings on debated authorship," esciencenews.com, February 22, 2013.

[59] [Staff reporter], "New findings on debated authorship," Telecommunications weekly, March 13, 2013.

[60] Emily Watkins, "After 65 years, new picture could reveal unknown man's identity," www.news.com.au, July 16, 2013.

[61] [Staff reporter], "Trapping T-rays for better security scanners," Science Daily, July 11, 2013.

[62] [Staff reporter], "Is mathematics invented or discovered?," www.huffingtonpost.com, October 9, 2013.

[63] Trent Dalton, "Six degrees of separation," The Weekend Australian Magazine, October 26–27, 2013.

[64] James Fettes, "Professor's 15-year search for answers seeks to crack the secret code to the death of the 'Somerton man' found on an Adelaide beach," Herald Sun, October 29, 2013.

[65] [Staff reporter], "Painting picture of Somerton Man," The Adelaide Advertiser, October 30, 2013.

[66] Renato Castello, "New twist in Somerton Man mystery as fresh claims emerge," Sunday Mail, November 23, 2013.

[67] Renato Castello, "I fear mum poisoned the Somerton Man," The Adelaide Advertiser, November 24, 2013.

[68] Renato Castello, "Liberals: We will exhume Somerton Man's body in bid to identify him," Sunday Mail, November 30, 2013.

[69] Renato Castello, "Somerton mans body could still be exhumed," The Adelaide Advertiser, December 1, 2013.

2012

[70] [Staff reporter], "Wickedictionary," Loughborough University Alumni Magazine, Vol. 25, 2012, p. 26.

[71] Diana Lutz, "Finding solutions to Achilles’ heel of renewable energy: intermittency ," Washington University in St Louis, March 15, 2012.

[72] Emily Watkins, "New link in death of Somerton man," Adelaide Sunday Mail, April 1, 2012.

[73] Michael Milnest, "DNA bid to give mystery man a name," The Adelaide Advertiser, July 28, 2012.

[74] Graham Phillips, "Next Generation Nuclear Power," https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3608402.htm ABC Catalyst, October 11, 2012.

2011

[75] Peter McClintock, "Quantum aspects of life," Contemporary Physics, Jan–Feb, 2011, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 71–73.

[76] Tom Kibble, "Quantum aspects of life," Journal of Quantum Information, Feb 18, 2011, pp. 1427–1432.

[77] MacGregor Campbell, "Killer codes," New Scientist, May 21, 2011, pp. 42–45.

[78] Rob Black, "Solar-Thermal is best mix," The Observer, June 4, 2011, p. 22.

[79] Mark Buchanan, "Geometric intuition," Nature Physics, Vol. 7, June, 2011, p. 442.

[80] [Staff reporter], "Wreath for remembrance," Canberra Times, August 30, 2011.

[81] Mike Peake, "The mystery of the Somerton man," FHM, Vol. 161, September 1, 2011.

[82] Nazary Nebeluk, "Abbott's "Wickedictionary" proves anything but wicked," The Pace Press (New York), Vol. 63, No. 4, October 5, 2011, p. 8.

[83] [Staff reporter], "A comical update to devils dictionary," M2Communications, October 10, 2011.

[84] Allen Pierleoni, "Abbott's 'Wickedictionary', The Sacramento Bee, October 10, 2011.

[85] [Staff reporter], "Celebrating 100 years since Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, author Derek Abbott releases a comical, entertaining update called The Wickedictionary," International Business Times, October 11, 2011.

[86] Emily Watkins, "Rau refuses to dig up body of unknown man found dead at Somerton Beach," Sunday Mail, October 15, 2011.

[87] Emily Watkins, "Exhumation denied we may never know," Sunday Mail, October 16, 2011, p. 37.

[88] [Staff reporter], "Abbott's 'Wickedictionary', Mayfair, Vol. 46, No. 13, 2011, p. 27.

[89] Emily Watkins, "Is British seaman's identity card clue to solving 63-year-old beach body mystery?," Sunday Mail, November 20, 2011.

2010

[90] Tom Kibble, "Quantum aspects of life edited by Derek Abbott, Paul CW Davies and Arun K Pati," International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 8, No. 8, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219749910006939

[91] Miguel Sanjuan, "Stochastic resonance. From suprathreshold stochastic resonance to stochastic signal quantization," Contemporary Physics, 2010, pp. 448–449.

[92] Peter Seligman, "letter to the editor," The Age , April 12, 2010.

[93] Ian Segal, "There was a mööcow coming down along the road," The New Yorker , April 22, 2010.

[94] [Staff reporter], "Cancer drugs offer new hope for Crohn's disease and sarcoidosis," Science Daily , December 5, 2010.

[95] Vlatko Vedral, "Quantum aspects of life," American Journal of Physics, December 12, 2010, Vol. 78, No. 12, pp. 1435–1436.

2009

[96] Michael Levin, "Quantum Aspects of Life," The Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2009, pp. 525–529.

[97] Candy Gibson, "Students aim to crack 60-year-old mystery," The Adelaidean, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2009, p. 9.

[98] [Staff reporter], "Plan to power the whole world," The Advertiser, July 14, 2009, p. 18.

[99] Penelope Debelle, "A body, a secret pocket and a mysterious code," The Advertiser, August 1, 2009, p. W14.

[100] Lisa Zyga, " Winning while losing: new strategy solves 'two-envelope'," PhysOrg.com, August 18, 2009.

[101] Anna Salleh, " Scientists crack 'two-envelope' problem," ABC Science, August 5, 2009.

[102] Lisa Zyga, "How a solar-hydrogen economy could supply the world's energy needs,"PhysOrg.com, August 24, 2009.

[103] Helga H. Guðmundsson, "Þekkir þú þennan mann?," Skakki Turninn, October 12, 2009, pp. 19–27.

2008

[104] Greg Smith, "Cutting through the animal b-a-a-bel," Toronto Star, January 20, 2008.

[105] Belle Dumė, "Radio-controlled sperm 'tap' turns off vasectomies," New Scientist, January 28, 2008.

[106] [Staff reporter], "Remote-controlled sperm 'tap' may offer reversible vasectomy," Thaindian News, January 29, 2008.

[107] Wissen Verhütung, "Ferngesteuertes Penis-Ventil soll Samen stoppen," Die Welt, January 31, 2008.

[108] Pat Hagan, "Vasectomy you can switch on and off at the push of a button," Daily Mail, February 5, 2008, p. 44.

[109] [Staff reporter], "Vasectomies to be a thing of the past," United News of India, February 5, 2008.

[110] [Staff reporter], "Remote-control contraception," The Daily Telegraph, February 6, 2008.

[111] [Staff reporter], "Zip..zap..zzz," The Sun, February 6, 2008, p. 7.

[112] Louise Hall, "Remote control birth control," The Sydney Morning Herald, February 10, 2008.

[113] Louise Hall, "It's the vasectomy off-switch," The Age, February 10, 2008.

[114] Louise Hall, "Remote control birth control," Brisbane Times, February 10, 2008.

[115] Billy Adams, "Pass the remote - for the kids' channel," New Zealand Herald, February 11, 2008.

[116] Lynn Lister, "‘On-off’ vasectomy for men," Independent Newspapers (UK), March 8, 2008. p. e110.

[117] [Staff reporter], "Male contraceptive, remote-control birth control," The Advertiser, June 19, 2008, p. 29.

[118] Clair Weaver, "Vasectomy you can turn off," Sunday Telegraph, June 22, 2008, p. 30.

[119] Helen Crompton, "Making more of nature," The West Australian, June 24, 2008, p. 5.

[120] [Staff reporter], "The new inventors," The Advertiser, June 25, 2008, p. 4.

[121] Liz Hollis, "Sperm warfare," The Times, September 20, 2008, p. 4.

[122] Nathan Bevan, "Fobbed off by de-vice," Wales on Sunday, September 28, 2008, p. 16.

[123] Nik Howe, "Remote control sperm—contraception innovations," Health and Wellbeing, September 22, 2008.

[124] Simon Webster, "It's hip to get the snip," Sydney Morning Herald, September 29, 2008.

2005

[125] [House of Assembly], "National T-Ray Facility," Hansard, February 14, 2005, p. 1534.

[126] [IEEE Newsletter], "Our Newest Fellow," IEEE Newsletter, March, 2005, p.1.

[127] Bernadette Nunn, "The world of T-rays," ABC Asia Pacific, June, 2005.

[128] [Staff reporter], "Nominee for award," The Advertiser, July 19, 2005, p.24.

[129] [Staff reporter], "Is Derek Abbott our science "Idol"Nominee," Adelaide University, July 15, 2005.

[130] David Ellis, "The whole picture: T-rays excite the imagination," Lumen Adelaide University, Winter, 2005, p.2–5.

[131] Paul Lloyd, "The future science class," The Advertiser, December 31, 2005, p.W04.

[132] ARC Annual Report on The National T-ray Facility, ARC Annual Report, December, 2005, p.49.

2004

[133] Jill Pengelley, "Adelaide sleep expert to keep US army alert," The Advertiser, August 12, 2004, p.26.

[134] [Staff reporter], "T-rays to detect WMDs cancer," ABC News Online, December 14, 2004.

[135] [Staff reporter], "Cutting edge technology discovered a century ago to be turned on terrorists," Agence France-Presse, December 14, 2004.

[136] [Staff reporter], "T-rays for terrorists," Science Alert, December 14, 2004.

[137] Heather Catchpole, "T-ray vision sees through clothes," ABC Science, December 15, 2004.

[138] Feleta Teo, "Device to track terrorist," Papua New Guinea–Courier, December 15, 2004, p.8.

[139] [Staff reporter], "T-rays to tackle skin cancer deaths" Australian Medical Association, December 16, 2004.

[140] [Staff reporter], "Airport staff can now peep through your clothes!" The Hindustan Times Ltd, December 16, 2004.

[141] [Staff reporter], "T-rays for tumours" Science Alert, December 16, 2004.

[142] [Staff reporter], "T-rays: Next step in science evolution," Aljazeera.net, December 22, 2004.

[143] Nick Carne, "T-rays open window to better care," The Independent Weekly, December 19–25, 2004, p. 3.

2002

[144] Adrian Cho, "Everyones a winner," New Scientist, Jan 5, 2002, p.13.

[145] David Nankervis, "Smart homes bring sci-fi fantasy to life," Sunday Mail, July 14, 2002.

[146] Chiu Fan Lee and Neil Johnson, "Let the quantum games begin," Physics World, October, 2002, pp. 25–29.

[147] Howard Salkow, "More teaching success for Derek," Adelaidean, December, 2002, p.8.

2001

[148] Erica Klarreich, "Playing both sides," The Sciences, February, 2001, pp. 25–29.

[149] R. Dean Astumian, "Gamblers paradox," Scientific American, July, 2001, p. 62.

2000

[150] Sherill Nixon, "SA scientists find a winning way from loser's games," Australian Associated Press, January 5, 2000.

[151] Sandra Blakeslee, "Paradox in game theory: Losing strategies that win," The New York Times, January 25, 2000, p. F5.

[152] Monica Salomone, "The turn out to join two negative things can be positive," El Pais Digital, January, 2000.

[153] [Staff reporter], "Losing to win," Science News, Vol. 157, No. 3, January 15, 2000, p. 47.

[154] David Ellis, "Gambling study show it's good to be bad," The Adelaidean, February 14, 2000, p. 4.

[155] Herve Ratel, "Who win loses," Avenir Sciences, Vol. 638, April, 2000.

[156] Sherrill Nixon, "Lady Luck: treat her bad and still be glad," The Age, July, 2000, p.4.

[157] Joachim Laukenmann, "Wer zweimal verliert, gewinnt," Sonntags Zeitung, July 2, 2000, p. 79.

[158] Stephen Luntz, "Gambling on mistakes," Australasian Science, August 9, 2000, Vol. 27, No. 7, p. 9.

[159] Rob Morrison, "Cutting the noise out of heartbeats," Science Daily, August 30, 2000.

1999

[160] [Staff reporter], "Inventive minds," Adelaide Advertiser, June 26, 1999, p. 36.

[161] Peter V. E. McClintock, "Random fluctuations: Unsolved problems of noise," Nature News & Views, September 2, 1999, pp. 23–25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/43331

[162] Javier Ochoa, "The paradox of Parrondo," Gaceta Complutense, October, 1999.

[163] Philip Ball, "Good news for losers," Nature Science Update, December 23, 1999, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news991223-13

1998

[164] [Staff reporter], "T-radiation threatens to cut X-rays to the bone," The Australian, May 5, 1998, p. 44.

[165] Kurt Moore, "Swarming satbots," World and I, Aug, 1998, p. 150.

1996

[166] [House of Assembly], "Interactive Multi-media," Hansard, July 9, 1996, p. 1905.

[167] [House of Assembly], "Information Telecommunications and Technology," Hansard, July 25, 1996, p. 2112.

1994

[168] Nina Hall, "Superconductors bearing gifts," The Observer, September 4, 1994.

[169] Roy Szweda, "New retinal chip developed," Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1994, p 6.

1993

[170] Wilson da Silva, "New microchip said to give machines bionic vision," Reuters News, November 10, 1993.

[171] [Staff reporter], "Robots may soon be able to see as well as bees," Singapore Press Holdings Limited, November 16, 1993.

[172] [Staff reporter], "Robots may see like a bee?," The Globe and Mail Toronto, November 17, 1993, p. B8.

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