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The US must balance climate justice challenges in the era of artificial intelligence
Among several takeaways, it revealed that the U.S. is warming faster than the rest of the world from human-induced climate change, and…
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A cosmic ocean of shame: Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend confronts a history beyond the ken of storytelling
Are there subjects so immense in historical scope and in depths of human suffering that a form engineered to tackle…
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Being bilingual slows brain ageing, and can prevent Alzheimer’s
It therefore seems obvious that bilingualism is much more common than many of us might assume. This is an increasingly visible fact…
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Language induces an identity crisis for the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants
They would speak to her sons in Spanish, before quickly adding in the same language, “How awful! You don’t understand…
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The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid
Since then, Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights in what can only be described as gender apartheid. Vrinda…
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‘It’s soul-destroying’: how people on a housing wait list of 175,000 describe their years of waiting
An individual usually has to be in “greatest need” to get on the list. Alan Morris The Conversation Even then,…
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Young people need more support coping with online sexual harms
While that increased connectivity brings many benefits, it can also open youth up to online harm and abuse. Authors The…
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‘Excessive tourism’: Greece will cap visits to the Acropolis of Athens to protect its most popular archaeological site
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the controls are needed to prevent bottlenecks and overcrowding at the UNESCO World Heritage site.…
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A rocky diplomatic road: Julian Assange’s hopes of avoiding extradition take a blow as US pushes back
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, asked on Saturday about the Australian government’s request that the US end the prosecution, said Assange…
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Greece wildfires: how climate change is involved, and what we can do about it
The role of climate change in heightening the risk of wildfires cannot be ignored. Authors The Conversation The world is,…
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Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing what it means for music to be heard
The event included performances by R&B artist and rapper Sho’Roc, female rapper Beautiful The Artist, the group Sunshine 2.0, DJs Key-Yo and Hear No Evil, as…
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‘Greed is amoral’: how Wall Street supermen cashed in on pandemic misery and chaos
New York finance journalist Scott Patterson reports how savvy investors used the devastation of the pandemic to reap billions in…
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Migrant deaths at sea: the real blame lies with policies created by European states
In response, states have expressed shock and sadness, and have moved to prosecute smugglers associated with the journey. Kerstin Bree Carlson The Conversation…
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Healing through witnessing: Documenting the stories of Yazidi refugees in Canada
At the Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic in Calgary, we tallied the physical damage, mental trauma and how families were ripped apart.…
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Ghassan Hage is one of Australia’s most significant intellectuals.
It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at…
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In J.M. Coetzee’s latest story collection, questions of the soul become urgent as the body becomes frail
What may be surprising to some about this collection is that the stories have all appeared before in some form…
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