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Efforts To Protect Endangered Minority Languages: Helpful Or Harmful?
(Photo: Tessa Kavanagh/Pixabay) Headlines abound with the plight of endangered minority languages around the world. Read a few of these and you’ll see some common themes: the rising number of...
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Surveys Provide Insight Into Three Factors That Encourage Open Data and Science
(Photo: Andreas Breitling/Pixabay) Open Science is a game changer for researchers and the research community. The UNESCO Open Science recommendations in 2021 suggest that the practice of Open Science...
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A new report from Britain’s Campaign for Social Science argues that the key to success for physical science and technology research is a healthy helping of relevant social science. In Reimagining the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has, almost inevitably, exposed important differences in writing about the history of disease. Is this a narrative driven by a desire to win an argument in the present or is it...
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A common criticism of new technologies — from splitting the atom to artificial intelligence — is that innovation outpaces human and regulatory ability to ensure responsible design, development, and...
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Aiming to spur greater connections between the life and social sciences, Science magazine and NOMIS look to recognize young researchers through the NOMIS and Science Young Explorers Award. This award...
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How ‘Dad Jokes’ Help Children Learn How To Handle Embarrassment
(Photo: StockSnap/Pixabay) This Father’s Day you may be rolling out your best “dad jokes” and watching your children laugh (or groan). Maybe you’ll hear your own father, partner or friend crack a dad...
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An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual of the 1960s and 1970s, whose star has waned somewhat...
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One of the sleeper hits for Netflix UK this summer has been a reimagining of Bocaccio’s Decameron as a commentary on pandemic behavior. In one sense, it is an obvious thing to do. The original was...
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