By Krupa Shandilya, Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
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By Sean Murphy, Director, Center for Story, Shenandoah University
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
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By Sharon Jean-Philippe, Professor of Urban Forestry, University of Tennessee
Students who study forestry will read about trees, but they do not often get the chance to climb up into a tree, feel its branches and see its leaves up close.
After observing how many forestry courses gave students limited chances to learn through hands-on experiences, I attended a workshop to gain tree-climbing skills and brought some of these lessons back to my own university’s new urban forestry program.
Forestry…
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By Ryan McGrady, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
This year, Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years as the internet’s encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In its first decade, the quirky experiment for passionate nerds exploded in popularity. It became a ubiquitous information resource and a homework helper for schoolkids, much to the dismay of skeptical teachers.
In its second decade, amid the public’s growing dissatisfaction with…
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By Mary Ogborn, Astrophysics PhD Candidate, Penn State
Black holes are a mainstay in sci-fi movies. How do these massive black holes, spread throughout our universe, actually work in real life?
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By Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
A strong deal would build in real penalties for going back to war: automatic, reversible costs that fall on anyone who restarts the fighting.
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By Kevin J. Bennett, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of South Carolina
An influx of cash would help stabilize rural health systems, but the program’s focus on technology may leave other major issues unaddressed.
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By Altin Gjeta, PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Thousands of Albanians have been taking to the streets of their capital, Tirana, for over three weeks now to oppose a luxury coastal resort project backed by Jared Kushner, the son‑in‑law of the US president, Donald Trump. The €4 billion (£3.5 billion) development will be constructed on southern Albania’s unspoiled Zvërnec coastline and surrounding wetlands.
Albania’s longstanding prime…
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By Harry Radzuan, Lecturer in Project Management, London South Bank University; University of Manchester
Jiaying Xue, Research assistant, London South Bank University
Siti Intan Nurdiana Wong Abdullah, Senior Lecturer, Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
As tourists prepare to pack their suitcases for a summer trip, decisions about how to be a green holidaymaker increasingly involve how to move around the resort or city, as well as how to get there.
Walking and cycling are still regarded as the most sustainable ways to explore holiday destinations. They reduce emissions, improve health and wellbeing and allow visitors to engage more closely with local places.
Some popular…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
For something that affects millions every month, period pain remains surprisingly poorly treated.
A recent analysis of supermarket transaction data from over three million shoppers found that paracetamol is the most purchased painkiller for menstrual cramps – despite being a less effective option than ibuprofen for this type of pain. The finding highlights a mismatch between what people buy and what actually works.
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