By Steven Lockey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Business School
Nicole Gillespie, Chair in Trust, Professor of Management, The University of Melbourne; Melbourne Business School
When applied to the right tasks, with appropriate human oversight, AI can enhance performance. Here are three simple steps to get the most out of the technology.
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By Matthew Mundy, Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health and Education, Torrens University Australia
Your memory during exams isn’t just related to how much you study. It also also about how your brain functions under pressure.
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By Alex Beattie, Lecturer, Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
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By Missy Molloy, Senior Lecturer in Film, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
One Battle After Another, written, produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is among the most exciting Hollywood films to hit cinemas this year. It is technically brilliant, with stellar performances, a heavy-hitting score by Radiohead great Jonny Greenwood, and impeccable cinematography.
On NPR, Justin Chang called it “prescient and political”. Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times crowned…
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By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney
Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes during the Holocaust.
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By Amy Kristin Sanders, John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies, Penn State
Free press advocates warn that limiting how journalists cover the Defense Department hampers the stability and freedom that democracies enjoy.
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By Todor Slavchev Minchev, Doctorant en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
Guillaume de Lafontaine, Professeur en écologie végétale, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favour of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal forest is showing surprising resilience.
Maple trees, meanwhile, are advancing more slowly than predicted. As a result, the promised great forest transition may not happen as quickly as imagined.
The composition and structure of forests are the result of complex ecological dynamics that are…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Water scientist Patrick Byrne tells The Conversation Weekly podcast what testing rivers can reveal about the biggest, often hidden, sources of PFAS pollution.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Drone incursions into Poland, fighter jets in Nato airspace, election interference in Romania and Moldova and “little green men” (soldiers of unconfirmed origin) in Estonia. These are just a few examples of the tactics Russia has been using in the past few weeks.
They appear to be part of a much broader strategy variously referred to as the “Gerasimov doctrine”, non-linear…
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By John Strawson, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London
Now a ceasefire has come into effect in Gaza, Israel’s long-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faces the dilemma of how to campaign ahead of the next national elections. These elections must be held, at the latest, in one year’s time.
In a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 13, both Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid made speeches that seemed to open the election campaign. Netanyahu chose to cast himself as war victor, while Lapid emphasised…
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