By Éléonore Paré, Doctoral candidate and lecturer, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
There has been a succession of spectacular acts of public violence and terrorism over the last few months, including the murder of the CEO of the insurance company United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, in New…
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By Sinéad McCauley Lambe, Assistant Professor, School of Inclusive and Special Education, Dublin City University
It’s a milestone that leaves parents beaming with pride: the first time their child shakily writes out their own name. And it’s the start of many more key childhood moments, from Christmas lists to writing their own stories.
If you’re keen to help your child learn to write, you might think about asking them to try to copy shapes, or trace over the dotted outline of a letter. But there’s a lot more that goes into writing. It requires fine…
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By Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
Barry Lyndon was a box office disappointment on its release in 1975. But it stands as one of Kubrick’s most visually stunning and emotionally rich films.
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By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Nomi AI is marketed as an “AI companion with memory and a soul”. But it has a much darker side which highlights the urgent need for enforceable AI safety standards.
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By Christian Yao, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
China’s vast middle class is now changing its values, aspirations and consumption habits in an era of much slower economic growth – dubbed ‘garbage time’.
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By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
This new production from Sport for Jove presents eight of Shakepeare’s history plays in oder. It is stupendously absorbing and exquisitely realised.
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By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2.
The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up close to one in five COVID cases in New…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. © 2018 Debbie Hill/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – Hungary should deny entry to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Netanyahu’s office announced that he is planning to travel to Hungary on April 2, 2025, following an invitation by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Netanyahu is subject to an arrest warrant issued by the International…
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Tuesday, April 1st 2025
Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with 602 victims of extrajudicial or summary executions in North and South Kivu recorded over just two months, the Human Rights Council heard on Tuesday.
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By Amnesty International
On 24 March, it was formally agreed that Itaipú Binacional should finance the purchase of 3,000 hectares of land in Brazil to restore part of the Avá Guaraní Paranaense territory that had been dispossessed and flooded for the construction and operation of the Itaipú hydroelectric dam. The dam, one of the largest in the world, […] The post Brazil and Paraguay: Itaipú takes a step towards restoring land to the Avá Guaraní Paranaense People, but integral reparation is still pending appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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