Category: MIL OSI
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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney Emily Morter/Unsplash In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response – “I am taking a bus” – was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to…
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My child is always losing and forgetting things. How can I help – without making it worse?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Celia Harris, Associate Professor in Cognitive Science, Western Sydney University CarrieCaptured/Getty As school returns, parents and teachers might each be faced with the familiar chorus of “I can’t find my school jumper” and “I left my hat at home”. For parents of older kids, the…
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‘No filter can fix that face’: how online body shaming harms teenage girls
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Taliah Jade Prince, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health and Neuroimaging, University of the Sunshine Coast Richard Drury/Getty Images You’re so ugly it hurts. Maybe if you lost some weight, someone would actually like you. No filter can fix that face. These are the…
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‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting better at understanding…
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Iranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. attacks on Iran from afar
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Fateme Ejaredar, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Calgary Iranian Canadians have been following the news in Iran carefully. Sadaf Vakilzadeh/Unsplash, CC BY The recent war waged by Israel and the United States on Iran killed at least 935 people and wounded another 5,332. There’s currently…
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All women — not just mothers — could benefit from more workplace flexibility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Anja Krstic, Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada Despite progress toward gender equity, many women continue to take on the majority of unpaid labour within their households, including housework and child care. On average, women spend twice as much time as men per…
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To protect coral reefs, we must also protect the people who depend on them
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Pedro C. González Espinosa, Postdoctoral Reserach Fellow, The School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University Coral reefs are vital ecosystems that sustain millions of people, yet they face a growing crisis. Rising ocean temperatures are causing coral bleaching, a process where heat disrupts the…
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BrewDog’s ‘Equity for Punks’ fuelled its rapid rise – but may have contributed to its struggles
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ross Brown, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance, University of St Andrews Graeme J Baty/Shutterstock Craft brewer and pub chain BrewDog recently closed some of its pubs in a push to cut operating costs. Given it is partly owned by private equity firm TSG Consumer…
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How the UK could reform the European convention on human rights
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joelle Grogan, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin Whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been a debate in UK politics for years. Conservatives have long accused the convention of interfering with government policy…
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How to improve university EDI policies so they address Jewish identity and antisemitism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lilach Marom, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University According to Statistics Canada, police-reported hate crimes against Jews rose by 82 per cent in 2023. In the months following Oct. 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza, university campuses across Canada became sites of…