By Toby Mündel, Professor in Kinesiology and Canada Research Chair, Brock University
Samuel Penna Wanner, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
The heat stress players may face during the 2026 FIFA World Cup could negatively affect their performance and pose a threat to their health.
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By Nicholas Freymueller, Postdoctoral Researcher in Extinction Biology, Adelaide University
Damien Fordham, Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology, Adelaide University
New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.
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By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Unable to defeat Iran, Israel shifts its focus to Lebanon, fearing U.S. negotiations with Tehran could limit operations against Hezbollah.
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By Mark Wickham-Jones, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Bristol
It is rare for former prime ministers to engage in debates about public policy nearly 20 years after they left office. Other than the most general observations, they tend to avoid interventions. So, when Tony Blair offered 5,700 words of criticism directed at the party he led for 13 years, it was obviously significant. Much – though not all – of his analysis was manifestly aimed at Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Claims in Blair’s…
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By Shahira Shahir, Senior Research Assistant, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Shaista Noor, Senior Lecturer in Business, Teesside University
Xiaoni Ren, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Picture this: you have spent decades building a career. You have a master’s degree. You have taught hundreds of students. You walk into work every morning with a sense of purpose. Then, almost overnight, the gates close. You are told you cannot come back. Not because of anything you did, but simply because of you are a woman.
This is what happened to female academics across Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
We conducted interviews with 12 Afghan…
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By Shambhavi Siddhi, PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University
The stark difference in women’s education statistics shows how Kashmiri girls and women are bearing a disproportionate brunt of militarized governance.
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By Amnesty International
As a result of Venezuelan victims’ fight for justice under universal jurisdiction in Argentina, manifested by filing complaints before Argentine courts, and responding to recent reports of an extradition request from Argentine to Spanish authorities, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, stated today: “Crimes against humanity, such as those committed in Venezuela, must stir […] The post International: Spanish and Argentinian authorities must support justice for Venezuelan victims of crimes against humanity appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, March 22, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik The Trump administration’s decision to establish a US$1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate participants of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, has triggered widespread public outrage. Many people, including Black reparations movement leaders and advocates, have pointed out a jarring double standard: as the administration moves quickly to provide financial redress for its political base, decades…
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By Andrew Parsons, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot.
“Your child likely has an ear infection,” the father learns. “Your symptoms could indicate a cardiac condition,” the woman reads.
Those are helpful answers – and there’s a good chance they’re correct. Artificial intelligence is approaching, and in some cases exceeding, doctors’ ability to make…
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By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
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