By Angela Ramos, Lecturer in Information and Technology Management, University of Tampa
As a cybersecurity educator, I’m used to being the unofficial IT support for my friends, family and neighbors. Forgotten passwords, suspicious emails, how-to’s – I’m the person they turn to because I “know about computers.”
So when I received a text from one of my neighbors, a woman in her early 70s, saying she had been scammed, I did not immediately think the worst. I texted her with the usual advice: Change your passwords, contact your financial institution, file an identity theft report, and perhaps make a…
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By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
A new application for a religious charter school is stirring up far-reaching questions about the constitutionality of public aid to faith-based institutions.
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By Alexander Thim, PhD Candidate of Economics, UMass Amherst; Westfield State University
Bridgette Davis, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, UMass Amherst
There is research showing that there are numerous benefits for a low-income child to attend a Head Start program, though these effects are less clear as the child ages.
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By Ming Xiao, Professor of Civil Engineering, Penn State
A regional permafrost map can’t tell a builder if a particular foundation or road will survive as temperatures rise. Engineers need to see beneath the surface to find the weaknesses.
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By John Patrick Schoeneman Jr., Assistant Professor of International Political Economics, Oklahoma State University
Any work to ease current shortages and price hikes while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed will take years and billions of dollars.
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By Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Human beings have always turned to oracles and divination for answers to difficult questions. Today, AI might be fulfilling that role.
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By Madeline Carr, Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
Recent warnings from American AI leaders have created the impression that the world is only beginning to confront the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence.
Dario Amodei, chief executive of tech company Anthropic, has called for governments to intervene to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI models.
His proposal begins with independent evaluators embedded inside AI companies,…
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By Rogelio Luque-Lora, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes, University of Edinburgh
You might be among the 46 million people who’ve seen a video showing how wolves changed Yellowstone, or you may have heard some other version of this story. Yellowstone, which covers nearly 3,500 square miles of the western United States, was the world’s first national park. Its pioneering reintroduction of wolves, which began in 1995, set a worldwide precedent for conservation.
The first half of the story is…
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By Alex Dryden, PhD Candidate in Economics, SOAS, University of London
The global bond markets are a sensitive lot. And they’ve been having a particularly tricky time lately.
Spooked by high inflation, high interest rates and high levels of government debt across the world, those markets have become less stable over the summer. The prices of government bonds – what governments sell to investors – have gone down. And yields – the amount of interest governments need to pay to those investors over a set period of time – have gone up.
This means it’s now more expensive…
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By Naomi Adam, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Literature, University of Liverpool
“It seems like all I ever do is change”, Taylor Swift writes in the prologue to the bestselling album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), released in 2014. In fact, change is a core part of the Swift marketing machine, which revolves around the evolution of her “eras”.
Since the release of her debut album in 2006, Swift has transformed from a ringleted country ingenue to a slick city dweller to (for her latest album cycle) a sequin-clad showgirl. That cycle has just been extended with the arrival of The Life of…
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