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People are using AI to communicate without disclosing it. Is this morally wrong?
Not all deceptions are equal.
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Kerbside parking is great for drivers – but terrible for everyone else. Could we get rid of it?
Australia largely has enough off-street parking to do away with unsightly kerbside parking – and free up space for bikes, pedestrians and scooters.
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Politicians have long misunderstood the ‘working class’. The rise of the far right shows how mistaken they have been
Class has always mattered, and now labour parties around the world are finding out why.
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National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity?
Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.
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Starting kindergarten soon? Summer is a perfect time to support your child’s early literacy learning
The best part of having fun with rhymes and words, noticing letters and reading together is that interactions build both early literacy skills and family connections.
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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution
The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.
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US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it
Investors’ inflation expectations, much more than the central bank, are among the factors that affect the cost of home loans.
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Ocean conservation needs strong relationships, not just targets
There is no shortage of global objectives and targets driving ocean conservation. However, protecting oceans depends on the communities that steward them.
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Zelenskyy’s honouring of wartime nationalists is straining Ukraine’s alliance with Poland
Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
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Poison or poverty: the impossible economic choices facing Ghana’s e-waste workers
In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.
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Are Uganda’s environmental impact reports just a box-ticking exercise? What a study of 108 projects reveals
Uganda’s environmental impact assessment law requires developers to consider alternatives to reduce environmental harm.
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What are the risks of contracting West Nile virus from a mosquito in Canada?
Genomics-based surveillance can help us identify the prevalence of mosquito-borne viruses across the country.