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How Trump’s war on the media is expected to ramp up in his second term
Mel Bunce, Professor of International Journalism, City St George's, University of London Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval ...
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‘For the very first time I really enjoyed sex!’ − how lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan
Since many Japanese women still find it difficult to explore and discuss their sexual desires with their partners, the services have become popular among all women, not just lesbians.
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Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good came from it in the past
In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.
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Why big oil and gas firms might want the Paris agreement to survive
ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he ...
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Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film
In a world where algorithms increasingly shape everyday life, many works of art are beginning to reflect how intertwined we’ve become with computational systems.
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It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy
On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline ...
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Companies are still committing to net-zero emissions, even if it’s a bumpy road – here’s what the data show
Abhinav Shubham, Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology Donghyun (Daniel) Choi, Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology Manpreet S.
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Canada’s first moon rover will soon have a name as it prepares to explore a hostile lunar region
The Canadian moon rover will soon have a name, two years before it’s set to explore the moon’s South Pole.
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75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina
Despite assumptions to the contrary, Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes a scholar of Indigenous cultures.
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Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company
Rose Chan Loui, Founding Executive Director for the Lowell Milken Center on Philanthropy and Nonprofits, University of California, Los Angeles OpenAI, the tech company that created the popular ChatGPT ...
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Transplanting insulin-making cells to treat Type 1 diabetes is challenging − but stem cells offer a potential improvement
Type 1 diabetes develops when the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells. Using stem cells to replace them could be a way to get around donor shortages and transplant complications.
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Why people would rather clean the toilet than check their bank balance – and the spending problems this leads to
“One in three people would rather deep clean their bathroom – deep clean with rubber gloves and everything – rather than check their savings,” according to AJ Coyne, chief marketing officer at online ...