By Katelyn Frey, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kent State University
“I’m looking for a book where …” has become a defining phrase of BookTok, TikTok’s massive community of readers and book influencers.
The request is rarely for an author or even a title. Instead, romance readers describe spicy details of a favorite trope: enemies to lovers, only one bed, fake dating and forbidden love, to name just a few.
Increasingly, these conversations aren’t staying online.
They’re also happening inside Pittsburgh’s…
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By Anthony Wanis-St John, Associate Professor, American University
Federico Manfredi Firmian, Visiting Scholar, American University
If implemented, the framework agreement hammered out between Lebanon and Israel in June 2026 could serve as the most consequential agreement between the two countries in nearly 80 years.
But that is a big “if.” The deal envisions peaceful relations between the two states and lays out a road map to disarm the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, secure Israel’s full withdrawal from Lebanon…
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By Daniel Yue, Assistant Professor of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yiyang Zeng, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
The fierce backlash against data centers shows no sign of easing up.
Since early 2024, more than 1,200 public actions – including zoning fights, public campaigns and temporary moratoriums – have been logged by the Data Center Tracker, a public U.S. database of community responses to data center site selection. Among the concerns, grid capacity, water use and transparency around siting appear most often.
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By Kate Sheridan, Assistant Professor in Athletic Therapy and Training, School of Health & Human Performance, Dublin City University
Sarahjane Belton, Professor of Health and Physical Activity, School of Health & Human Performance, Dublin City University
Between us, we bring two perspectives to persistent illness: personal experience of long COVID, and clinical and research experience in chronic illness rehabilitation.
Both have taught us the same thing: when symptoms are real, disabling and difficult to explain, patients need more than reassurance that tests are normal. They need to be believed, assessed carefully and offered ways to make sense of what is happening in their bodies.
One of us, Sarahjane, knows this personally. Before developing long…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that 11 people removed by the United States arrived in Eswatini on 8 July, in what appears to be the fourth known transfer operation under the US-Eswatini third-country removal arrangement, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “For almost a year, Amnesty International has documented the […] The post Eswatini: Fourth US third-country removal operation raises fresh human rights concerns appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Liza-Mare Syron, Scientia Associate Professor and Co-Associate Dean Indigenous (ADA), UNSW Sydney
Beyond the Tracks is a vibrant and deeply moving autobiographical work that fuses dance, movement, song and audiovisual storytelling.
At its centre is Kamilaroi/Mandandanji man Michael Leslie — a dancer, choreographer and cultural force whose life story is as expansive as his artistic legacy. Over 45 fast-paced minutes, what unfolds is not simply a performance, but a lived history, rendered with generosity, humour and unflinching truth
Visually layered, carried by warmth
The show opens with Leslie entering the stage, closely followed by Ursula Yovich, whose presence…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
The breakdown of the ceasefire between the US and Iran was perhaps the least surprising news this week. The 14-point plan – AKA the memorandum of understanding (MoU) – signed by Donald Trump in Versailles at the end of the G7 summit on June 17 and by the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, the same day had always felt dangerously impermanent.
So the return to what analysts coyly refer to as “kinetic warfare” and journalists call “bang-bangs” seemed inevitable.
For Ben Soodavar, an expert in decision-making in war at King’s College London, the agreement was a
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By Chris Tonkin, Associate Professor, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
One in three people worldwide carry a brain-dwelling parasite. Should that keep us awake at night? And are you at risk if you don’t have a cat?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians receive humanitarian aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis, February 5, 2025. © 2025 Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Governments should disregard the statement from the US President Donald Trump-chaired Board of Peace that “UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza,” the latest salvo in the US and Israeli government’s long-running campaign to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.Even before October 2023, UNRWA provided lifesaving…
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By Joanne Wallis, Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
Jack Corbett, Professor, Politics and International Relations, Monash University
Australia has long shifted from neglect to anxiety and activity in its relationship with the Pacific. Here’s why, and how, that needs to change.
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