By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again.
Chernobyl is one of them.
On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded, releasing a cloud of radioactive material that drifted across Europe and contaminated land inhabited by around five million people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
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By Brent Keogh, Lecturer in the School of Communications, University of Technology Sydney
From master Jedi, to a pope, to AI Jesus, Trump has a track record of using pop culture reference as propoganda.
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By Rebecca Van Amber, Senior Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University
Shopping for a duvet? There’s solid textile science to guide you – and it’s less complicated than the marketing would have you believe.
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By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, Adelaide University
George Mihaylov, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Adelaide University
Ralf Zurbruegg, Professor in Finance and Business Analytics, Adelaide University
Sophie Murray, Partner Engagement Manager: Aboriginal Community and Industry, Adelaide University
Unlike economic damages, there is no formal method for deciding on compensation for cultural loss when a court rules land has been damaged or taken away.
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By Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
If a Supreme Court justice retires before the November midterms, this is how Trump and Senate Republicans can successfully confirm a successor.
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By Erin Leigh Courtice, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University
Your emojis need to match the tone of your message if you wish to appear competent, according to new research.
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By Elizabeth Buckner, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Toronto
Ashley Manuel, PhD student, Higher Education program, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
Eun Gi (Cathy) Kim, PhD Candidate, Higher Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Sophie Xiaoyi Liu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of British Columbia
A transactional approach to including international students risks Canadians never getting to know the people who come to study with their full and complex lives.
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By Lauren Cassidy, Lecturer German and Russian Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown during a routine procedure, setting off a chain of events that ultimately released radioactive material
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By Christophe Premat, Professor, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Stockholm University
A look at six African intellectuals whose work challenges dominant narratives and reclaims Africa as a producer of knowledge, not just its object.
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By Alejandro J. Almenar Arasanz, Profesor área de Fisioterapia, Universidad San Jorge
Marta Diarte Oliva, Docente e investigadora, Universidad San Jorge
It’s bad to stay in any posture for a long time – whether in a chair or on your feet.
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