A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.
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Around half of Australians still use cash in a typical week, and we keep about $65 in our wallets.
Proposed changes to UK banknotes reveal the power of cultural memory on national identity.
What do you know about your national currency? How about the cash used overseas? We studied wildlife imagery on banknotes around the world. Here’s what we found.
The law prohibiting abuse of the naira violates Nigerian cultural and traditional practices.
Less than 20 years ago, 69% of Australians’ purchases were made with cash. It’s now 13% and falling. This chart shows how the way we pay has completely changed in just one generation.
It costs just 20 cents to make a $2 coin, and 32 cents to make a $100 note, but eventually the money making is going to stop.
Cash holdings jumped 17% during the crisis, most of them in the form of $50 and $100 notes.
Dorothy Hodgkin’s work on X-ray crystallography made it possible to understand how penicillin, insulin and many other molecules work.
The Bank of England wants a scientist for the new £50 note.
The new series of Australian banknotes are not a designer’s dream but they are the strongest yet in terms of preventing counterfeiting.
The novelist’s life was marked by the financial industry … and not always for the best.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow in Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of English, University of Southampton
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Professor of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Lecturer in Ecology, Griffith University
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Associate professor, University of Lagos
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California
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Associate Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate in Political Theory, University of Sussex
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Professor of Innovation Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra