By Anthony Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Salford
Laura Minor, Lecturer in Television Studies, University of Salford
Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.
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By David Toews, Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of “survival of the fittest” is constantly at play. New DNA mutations arise and get passed from parents to offspring. If any genetic changes prove to be beneficial, they might give those young a survival edge.
Over the great span of time – through the slow closing of a land bridge here or the rise of a mountain range there – species eventually split. They go on evolving slowly along their own trajectories with their own unique mutations. That’s the process that over the past 3.5 billion…
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By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
The CDC website used to state, clearly and correctly, that the evidence shows no link between vaccines and the development of autism.
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By Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide
Nathan Howard Gray, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.
In return, the US government will receive 25% of the sales revenue, in what has become a hallmark of this administration to take a sales cut of a private company’s revenues.
The H200 is Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI processor. It’s roughly…
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book, 1929, takes us inside the Wall Street crash that led to the Depression. It asks: does history repeat itself? And what can we learn from it?
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By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
Ray Wills, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports of a Myanmar military air strike on a hospital in Rakhine State on Wednesday night, international Human Rights Day, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “Nowhere and no one is safe from the violence of the Myanmar military, which is widening its repression ahead of an election later this month which […] The post Myanmar: Deadly military air strike on hospital shows vicious disregard for right to life appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that the leader of the National Union for Total Revolution of Angola (UNTRA) Serrote José de Oliveria – whose health has been deteriorating since being held in arbitrary detention since 28 July – has begun a hunger strike to protest his unlawful detention, Amnesty International’s Deputy-Director for East and Southern Africa, Flavia […] The post Angola: Authorities must provide urgent medical care to detained UNTRA leader appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Ilya Ilyankou, PhD candidate at SpaceTimeLab, UCL
This technology was developed in response to the stark disparity in how urban safety is experienced by women and men.
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By Joshua Shanes, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of divine light.
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