By Carson Phillips, Faculty, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College
Regan Lipes, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
To combat the rise in antisemitism, we need to accurately name what it is and continually confront it as a country.
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By Sarah Burton, PhD candidate, Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Michael Karanicolas, Associate Professor of Law and James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy & Law, Dalhousie University; Institute for Humane Studies
By setting up a fund supported by those who violate Canadian laws to assist groups that protect civil rights, Canada can invest in democracy’s strongest defence: robust, free and open speech.
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By Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Florida International University
After ten months of investigation, the Banco Master case points to banker Daniel Vorcaro managing to take the country’s political system hostage.
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By Ian McDonough, Associate Professor of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Old age and forgetfulness seem to go hand in hand. But my colleagues and I found that memories actually becomes less precise, not entirely forgotten. Our study, published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, shows how the brain blends related experiences as you age rather than replaying the exact one you need.
Memory is a complicated process. Even when everything’s working as it should, the way people remember specific events has many parts.
Say…
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By Audrey Rouyre, Enseignante-chercheuse en Management Stratégique, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Business School; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Paris’ International Space Summit was an opportunity to understand what and who Europe needs to reliably sustain its launch ambitions and become a world-class leader in Space.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Men are turning to fillers to increase penis size. But the evidence is limited, the effects fade and complications can be serious.
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By Kartikeya Walia, Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-metre sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human world record of 9.58 seconds.
The internet laughed at the robots’ awkward, lurching finishes and spectacular falls – but the laughter masked a chilling reality.
Just two days after the games concluded the official…
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By Ken Valyear, Senior Lecturer in Sensorimotor and Rehabilitation Neuroscience, Bangor University
Surgery can restore communication between the hand and brain, but new research suggests the brain’s response to individual fingers may change.
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By Maria Lucia Passador, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Bocconi University
For the past decade, most public debates about data have revolved around a familiar anxiety: too much of our personal information is being collected from our records and our online activity, and then shared and monetised. That concern has not gone away. But a shift is now under way – towards synthetic data.
Increasingly, data used by governments, hospitals, banks and technology companies to make decisions about the people they serve is not gathered directly from real people and events. It can be
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By Lisa Smith, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Essex
Rachel Rich, Reader in Modern European History, Leeds Beckett University
The stereotype of bland British food is notorious, and people mock the horrors of jellied eels and overcooked vegetables. Even roast beef and pudding are seen as uninspired compared to the cuisines of other nations. But British food is and has historically been complex, multicultural, and flavourful.
It was wartime rationing that damaged Britain’s culinary reputation. With our co-authors, digital humanities scholar Adam Crymble and historian Sarah Fox, we looked at the age of George III…
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