By Jamie Q Roberts, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
Donald Trump was supported by a group of converted Democrats, like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard, who are united by membership of the intellectual dark web. What is it?
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By Andrew Dean, Lecturer, Writing and Literature, Deakin University
AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we arrive at standardised outcomes.
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By Cybele Dey, Conjoint lecturer & PhD candidate in Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Iain Perkes, Senior Lecturer, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney
Kay Wilhelm, Professor in Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney
Young people worry about climate change. But the impact on their mental health is more than anxiety about the future. Increasing heat and other effects are already influencing poor mental health.
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By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
Alison M. Hill, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, University of South Australia
Chloe Otte, PhD Candidate, University of South Australia
Just as a Formula 1 team wouldn’t use shoddy fuel for their cars, elite athletes shouldn’t eat poorly as they try to get the best out of themselves.
Nutrition is crucial for fuelling athletes for training, performance and recovery.
The two most important macronutrients for athletes are carbohydrates and protein.
Carbohydrates provide energy – they fuel the body for exercise…
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By Katharine Annear, Lecturer (Teaching Specialist) Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
Language trends change quickly at the hands of social media users. They explode into our screens, rather than slowly evolve. This can change the ways we talk about diagnoses such as autism and concepts like neurodiversity.
But before we use a term, we should look at how it came to be and what it means to people.
So where does the new word “neurospicy” come from? And why do some people embrace it, while others reject it?
First, let’s unpack ‘neurodiversity’
The term neurodiversity evolved…
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By Kathryn Henne, Professor and Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Charles Orgill Gretton, Associate Professor and TechLauncher Program Convener, Australian National University
Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ontario Tech University
Police departments around the world are increasingly using body-worn cameras in an attempt to improve public trust and accountability. But this has created huge amounts of data, about 95% of which is never reviewed or even seen.
Enter companies such as Axon, Polis Solutions and Truleo. These companies market artificial intelligence (AI) tools for analysing the…
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By Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Julia Taylor, Researcher in Climate and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
Katrina Lehmann-Grube, Associate Researcher in Climate Change and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
This week, nations are hashing out new goals for climate finance at the COP29 talks. Loss and damage is finally on the agenda – but the chance of major new funding is low
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By Craig Barker, Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
It’s one of the most thrilling sequences in Ridley Scott’s new film Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning blockbuster.
Water gushes from the Colosseum’s fountains and floods the arena. A crew of men led by the film’s hero, Lucius Verus (played by Paul Mescal), row a warship while firing arrows at another ship. Sharks loom in the surrounding water, while the Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) watches on laughing.
It’s Hollywood’s…
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By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury
The inclusion of cyberstalking in the proposed anti-stalking law brings New Zealand in line with other countries. But future technologies may make harm even harder to combat.
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By Mark Purdon, Professor, École des sciences de la gestion & Holder, Chair in Decarbonization, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
In a world coping with climate setbacks and Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States, the growing prominence of international carbon markets may just be the good news we have been looking for. Canada should take notice.
More than a decade after the collapse of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012, the most recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) global Conference of the Parties (COP29) meeting appears to have already…
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