By Seth Ashley, Professor of Communication, Boise State University
The ‘equal time’ rule has been around for a century and aims to promote broadcasters’ editorial independence and free expression – an idea that is now under threat from the FCC.
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By Charles Conteh, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science, Brock University
Canada can draw lessons from its centuries-long coexistence with an often-erratic neighbour to successfully navigate the economic volatility of the present era.
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By Matthew I. Thompson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina
Whether capturing them on film, containing them in amusement parks, or subjecting them to scientific experiments, our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to capture them out of the ocean.
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By Reza Hasmath, Professor in Political Science, University of Alberta
Canada has spent decades confronting the gender pay gap, enacting legislation and building public awareness around the fact that women earn about 84 cents for every dollar men make. That gap persists because of systemic barriers, and is wider for women who face multiple forms of discrimination.
Yet an equally significant wage penalty for ethnic and racial minorities rarely commands the same attention, and has not prompted a comparable…
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By Nadiya N. Ali, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Trent University
AI-generated racism does not spread because it is technologically convincing. It revives familiar narratives that audiences accept and circulate, even when they are exposed as false.
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By Sarah Venter, Baobab Ecologist, University of the Witwatersrand
A beetle that lays eggs inside the bark of trees has killed six baobab trees in Oman for the first time. Urgent measures are needed to stop it spreading to Africa.
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By Lyla Latif, Co-Founder & Research Lead, Committee on Fiscal Studies, University of Nairobi
Public finance, or how governments at all levels raise and allocate money, is in evidence everywhere you look. That pothole destroying your car. The health clinic without medicine. The dilapidated school. Public money is not government money. It is yours, writes Kenyan finance scholar Lyla Latif in her new book Governing Public Money. Drawing on a decade of experience across 32 countries, the author sets out what ails Africa’s public finances and what could change.…
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By Georgios Bouloukakis, Assistant Professor, University of Patras; Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)
Does cloud-free AI have the cutting-edge over data processing and storage on centralised, remote servers by providers like Google Cloud? Is AI-powered edge computing safer? More trusted?
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By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
While is it possible the former prince could be removed from the line of succession, it is a messy and complicated legislative process.
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By Omololu Akin-Ojo, Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan
Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids.
What is the smallest thing in the universe that actually exists? – Mimi, 12, Abeokuta, Nigeria
To find an answer, we asked physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo, who teaches this subject. A physicist is someone who studies physics. Physics…
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