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Several pieces of legislation across the world are coming into effect this year to tackle harms experienced online, such as the UK’s Online Safety Act and Australia’s Online Safety Act. There are also new standards, […]

Statistics showing Indigenous school students in a negative light are regularly reported in the Australian media and policy debates. We often hear how Indigenous students “trail” their non-Indigenous peers in NAPLAN results and how there […]

Almost three decades ago, the chert mining area in Krumlov Forest was discovered. Since then, much has been written about the mining activity that took place here. While chert mining occurred here from as early […]

You may have spent hours scheduling your holiday plans down to the last minute, but did you ever consider factoring in your body clock?This post was originally published on this site

Late midlife adults are one of Canada’s largest yet most under-recognized and over-extended resources. They quietly tend to the health and well-being of millions of younger and older people, in person or from a distance.This […]

Data from the World Bank suggests that extreme poverty has declined dramatically over the past four decades, from 47% of the world’s population in 1981 to around 10% today.This post was originally published on this […]

Heating, cooling and powering a home isn’t cheap, and new research shows that some Americans are paying a higher percentage of their hard-earned dollars to cover their energy bills.This post was originally published on this […]

A year ago, French newspaper Le Monde and Radio France broke a scandal in big water—Perrier was filtering its product. The filtering began due to worries about water contamination linked to climate change and pollution […]

A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto (Rissho University, Japan) has developed a new model that integrates direct and indirect reciprocity, the two core mechanisms underpinning human cooperation. Unlike previous models that treat these […]