By Nauman Wajid, Lecturer in Marketing, Birmingham City University
Hurry! Only two left! Fourteen people bought this in the last hour! Fifty people are looking at this item!
Anyone who shops online will be familiar with these kinds of messages popping up on their screen. The online equivalent of a pushy salesperson, they are designed to create a sense of urgency around making a purchase.
These online tools are sometimes referred to as “dark patterns” – clever tricks built into apps and websites to encourage you to do things you may not necessarily want to do – like click the “buy” button. One…
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By Liam T. Pearson-Noseworthy, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Spend long enough on fitness social media and you’ll see the same tip. Finish every weight training session with about 15 minutes of cardio to boost your “gains”. But does it actually work? Probably not as much as you’d think.
Doing cardio and weight training in the same exercise programme is known as “concurrent training”. This includes doing cardio in the same session as your weights, or on separate days.
For years,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Halk TV general news coordinator Serhan Asker gives an interview to media after the government takeover of the channel, a police raid on the premises, and the announcement of an arrest warrant against its owner and 16 others. Halk TV, Istanbul, October 14, 2026. © 2026 Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images Police carried out a dawn raid on the widely watched, independent news channel Halk TV on October 14, signaling its takeover by a government-appointed administrator who promptly ordered the station to end its live broadcast.Halk TV is close to the main political opposition…
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By Amnesty International
The Delhi authorities must immediately release Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who have been remanded to five days of judicial custody after trying to protest at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday. Their arrests, following the removal of the site’s designation as an authorized protest venue, raise serious concerns about shrinking space […] The post India: Release CJP leaders arrested after attempting peaceful protests at Jantar Mantar appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Sarah Webber, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton
Kaitlin Newkirk, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Xavier University
When an AI a business is using makes a mistake, the business tends to be on the hook, not the AI toolmaker.
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By Emily J. C. Wong, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
Four words that parents in the classroom group chat dread to read: ‘My kid has lice.’
Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are parasites that primarily infest children in childcare, preschool or elementary school. Having lice doesn’t indicate poor hygiene, despite a longstanding misconception driven by stigma, and lice don’t spread other diseases. But children with lice are often shamed and unnecessarily excluded from attending school.
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By Dana R. Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service, American University
In communities across America, people recovering from floods, storms and wildfires have been left waiting much longer for federal aid – if it arrives at all.
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By Sohini Sarah Pillai, Assistant Professor of Religion, Kalamazoo College
There is no single way to tell the story of the ‘Ramayana.’ People from different religious traditions and cultural backgrounds have reimagined the epic in countless ways.
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By Suzanne Eckes, Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Preston Green III, Professor of Urban Education, University of Connecticut
St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy is one of many cases in which religious schools have challenged the wall between church and state.
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By Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
The conflict over the wisdom of Nidal Hasan’s public execution is not a new one. Americans at the republic’s founding debated – and doubted – whether watching someone die would teach a useful lesson.
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