By Makarand Gulawani, Associate Professor, Triffo School of Business, MacEwan University
How Drake’s ice stunt, Ariana Grande’s Petal teaser campaign and Taylor Swift’s ‘Toy Story’ song became a masterclass in modern music marketing.
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By Francois Brouard, Full Professor Accounting and Taxation / Professeur titulaire comptabilité et fiscalité, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Thanks to its strong assets, substantial financial reserves, and sustained investment capacity, FIFA remains one of the most powerful sports organizations in the world.
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By Theresa Pauly, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Relationships, Health, and Aging, Simon Fraser University
Personal time can be an important resource that helps parents manage stress, regulate emotions and maintain their health while meeting the demands of family life.
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By Eoin Whelan, Professor in Business Analytics and Society, University of Galway
Is the time teenagers spend on social media really damaging their wellbeing and mental health? Around the globe, youth mental health problems are on the rise. This has coincided with an ever increasing amount of time teenagers spend on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, X and Snapchat.
In the public discourse at least, this correlation has been interpreted to mean one thing: social media damages the mental health of our young people. But what does the evidence actually say?
Unfortunately, the scientific community has been unable to provide a definitive answer. Many studies…
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By Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Adolph Johannes Brand was born on 9 October 1934 in Cape Town. He would become better known as Dollar Brand and then Abdullah Ibrahim, an artist of mixed ethnic descent who personified the city’s multiculturalism and represented it on the world’s stages.
He went to school in District Six, a municipal inner city area with residents of diverse backgrounds. Due to the enforcement of apartheid it was declared a “white area” in 1966 and the…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the detention of two Chinese Protestant church leaders and the interrogation by police of multiple members of the congregation during a service on Sunday, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “The detention of church leaders from the Early Rain Covenant Church is the latest example of the Chinese government’s efforts to […] The post China: Detention of church leaders signals intensifying attacks on religious freedom appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on August 23, 2020. © 2020 Andre Penner/AP Photo (São Paulo) – Brazilian judicial authorities in two important recent rulings, affirmed the rights of small landholders and Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and called on federal authorities to remove illegal occupants, a major driver of illegal deforestation in the region, Human Rights Watch said today. The decisions condemn federal authorities for their delays in taking steps to remove land…
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By Susanne Durhuus-Andersen, Senior Clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen
Nuno Vibe Hermann, Dentist and Associate Professor in the Department of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen
Your child’s small, delicate, chalk-white baby teeth fall out. In their place grow yellowish-brown, fragile teeth – much to everyone’s surprise.
This is the dental condition molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH), a condition that is almost as common as tooth decay, though hardly known about outside of dentistry – and even then it can often be misdiagnosed.
The condition affects how certain adult teeth form in early childhood. It isn’t caused by lack…
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By Moncef Krarti, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits with far less cost and go with renters when they move.
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By W. Ian O'Byrne, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, College of Charleston
AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.
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