By Dani Dilkes, PhD student, Digital Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Mark Daley, Professor of Cpmputer Science & Chief AI Officer, Western University
Alternative educational movements offer insights about how to help university students find purpose and hope as they navigate an increasingly complex world.
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By Maxime Polleri, Assistant Professor, Université Laval
The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, near the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.
Massive white containers encase spent nuclear fuel, protecting me from the deadly radiation that emanates from them. The number of containers is impressive, and my guide explained this waste is stored on an interim basis, as they wait for a more permanent solution.
I visited the site in August 2023 as part of my research…
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By Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The first requirement is that the film’s script must initially be submitted to the Taliban, and after the film is completed, it must be reviewed again.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Hearings continued on Thursday at the UN’s top court into The Gambia’s claim that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya people, with allegations that military officials incited violence by calling the ethnic minority “Muslim dogs” who should be made “extinct”.
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
The Islamic Republic appears to have survived another existential crisis. Scott Lucas addresses the key issues and considers the future for Iran.
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By Alex Fisher, Society for Applied Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds
Many women have experienced severe distress as Grok, the AI chatbot on social media site X, removed clothing from their images to show them in bikinis, in sexual positions or covered in blood and bruises. Grok, like other AI tools, has also reportedly been used to generate child sexual abuse material.
In response, the UK government has announced it will bring forward the implementation of a law, passed in June 2025, banning the creation of non-consensual AI-generated…
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By Enrique Gaztanaga, Professor of Astrophysics at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.
In 1935, while studying the behaviour of particles in regions of extreme gravity, Einstein and Rosen introduced what they called a “bridge”: a mathematical link between two perfectly symmetrical copies of spacetime. It was not intended as a passage for travel, but as a way to maintain…
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By Aaron Coy Moulton, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Stephen F. Austin State University
US lawmakers who opposed Guatemala’s democratically elected leaders alleged communist subterfuge. They didn’t mention the United Fruit Company’s complaints before the 1954 coup.
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By Michele Patterson Ford, Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
New Year’s resolutions typically fade so quickly that there is a ‘Quitter’s Day’ named after them, for the second Friday in January. But small actions and shifts in mindset can have much longer-lasting beneficial effects.
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By Stephen Acabado, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
As climate extremes intensify, adaptation debates favor new technologies. Terraces in the Philippines and Morocco show how people modified their landscapes to respond to past climate shifts.
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