By Francis Duah, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning mathematics actively.
These moments of playful learning raise a broader question: how can we support student’s mathematical learning at home without turning the holidays into formal lessons?
One answer comes from a simple but surprisingly powerful classroom…
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
A university president who’s a former federal judge looks at the rule of law and the Trump administration’s first year, concluding the president ‘simply lacks respect for our system of justice.’
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By Justina C. Ray, Adjunct professor, Institute of Forestry and Conservation and Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto
Dave Poulton, PhD candidate, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Adopting a well-established strategy can help Canada avoid the dysfunctional outcomes we see repeatedly in today’s planning and assessment processes.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Queen Mother and Founder of the VFF Foundation, Viola Ford Fletcher, at the Oldest Living Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre Survivors Celebrated And Book Cover Revealing at The City Club of Washington in Washington, DC, US, February 28, 2023. © 2023 Brian Stukes/Getty Images The recent passing of Queen Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, at age 111, marked a profound loss in the ongoing fight for justice for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the racist attack that left hundreds of Black people dead and more than 1,200 Black-owned houses burned to the ground. As the oldest…
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By Andy Levy, Reader in Psychology, Edge Hill University
Vaping among teenagers is a growing global health problem.
In the UK, schools are reporting a surge in young people struggling with dependence, including cases of students needing medical attention after vaping in class. In the Netherlands, researchers have found that many teenagers wake up at night specifically…
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By Roman Birke, Assistant Professor in Modern European History, Dublin City University
The new US national security strategy marks a significant historical turn. It shifts the focus from global overpopulation to anxieties around population decline in the western world. Coupled with renewed criticism of Europe’s military weaknesses, the strategy updates longstanding anti-European narratives.
US-European relations have so profoundly influenced the course of the 20th and 21st centuries that New York University historian Mary Nolan refers to this era as the “transatlantic…
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By Mark Chadwick, Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
US forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a move Caracas has called an ‘act of piracy’.
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By Julia Toppin, Senior Lecturer, Music Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Westminster
Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the earth as a woman.
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By Samantha Ward, Professor of Zoo Animal Welfare & Legislation, Nottingham Trent University
Imagine sipping a latte while stroking an owl or watching an otter play at your feet. This is the promise of exotic animal cafes, a trend that blends coffee culture with wildlife encounters. But behind the Instagram-worthy photos lies a troubling reality – the welfare of the animals themselves.
Since the mid-2000s, animal cafes have increased in popularity with customers paying low-cost entrance fees, ranging from £8 to around £15, depending on the location and animals housed there. The concept seemed to have started with cat cafes but…
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By Robin Bailey, Assistant professor, University of Cambridge
Picture a busy A&E department on a winter evening. Among the emergencies – heart attacks, broken bones, severe injuries – sits someone with a sore throat. Another with an ingrown toenail. Last winter in England, over 200,000 people turned up to emergency departments with complaints like these, leading many to ask: are people misusing A&E – or is something else going on?
A perspective not always considered in this discussion is that the sore throat (or other seemingly minor ailment) isn’t really the problem. The problem is the terror that it might be something worse. Unfortunately, the…
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