By Shannon Pickett, Professor of Psychology and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Purdue University
Students and their families can’t plan for everything, or know with absolute certainty what the best decision is. But they can be better informed about options.
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By Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.
Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University has studied some of these ancient species by examining the tracks and traces they left during the Pleistocene…
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By Marc Wegerif, Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Pretoria
Land tenure is the relationship, defined in law and customs, that people as individuals or groups have with land. It involves a bundle of rights to land, such as the right to use, sell, or bequeath land. Secure tenure is crucial for people to have secure homes, for food production, and for the economy. For many it is also central to their identity and culture.
While there is broad agreement on the importance of…
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By Lieketseng Ned, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Marguerite Schneider, Emeritus Associate Professor, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town
South Africa needs to take pragmatic steps to plug the shortcomings in the data that’s collected on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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By Eli Elster, Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Conspiracy thinking, supernatural beliefs and pseudoscience can seem impervious to evidence. An anthropologist suggests the opposite: Extraordinary beliefs may be supported by an individual’s experience.
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By Michel Bouchard, Professor of Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia
As Russian tanks rolled towards Kyiv in February 2022, a quick Russian victory seemed assured. But as Ukrainian soldiers fought off Russian invaders, Ukrainian netizens launched waves of memes to provide hope to a nation under existential threat.
These memes often mocked Russian hubris and incompetence, drawing upon news and online clips as fodder to attack Russian propaganda.
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By Frédérick Nadeau, Chercheur postdoctoral, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Tristan Boursier, Docteur en Science politique, Sciences Po ; Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Active Clubs combine fitness and white nationalism, transforming the body into a tool for radicalization and normalizing far right ideology as part of everyday life.
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By Brodie Ramin, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A fault line in Canada’s Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometres from northeast British Columbia into the Yukon and towards Alaska, have found evidence that the fault has built up at least six metres of unrelieved strain.
Like a loaded weapon, it may now be primed for a massive…
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By Sara Kells, Director of Program Management at IE Digital Learning and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, IE University
In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It was governed by deep-rooted social principles that ensured lively, inclusive, healthy debate.
Today, our public squares have moved online to the digital feeds and forums of social media. These spaces mostly lack communal rules and codes – instead, algorithms decide which voices rise above the clamour, and which are buried beneath it.
The optimistic idea of the internet being a radically democratic space feels like a distant memory. Our conversations…
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By Oiwan Lam
What we need includes an independent investigation into the malpractice surrounding repair project bidding, the failure of the current monitoring system and the inaction of government authorities upon receiving complaints.
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