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Should you hire a life coach in 2025?
With the New Year fast approaching, many will be setting goals and ambitions for the next 12 months. This can be a daunting exercise, clouded by a cost-of-living crisis, economic turbulence and ever-moving societal shifts—not ...
Social Sciences
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Walking into stress in 2025? Take steps now to prepare
Five years ago, I began a research project into emotional labor, compassion fatigue and burnout in Alberta's educational workers.
Social Sciences
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AI is a game changer for students with disabilities. Schools are still learning to harness it
For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as "rineanswsaurs" or sarcastic as "srkastik."
Education
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Aceh Tsunami: Monuments help to remember disasters—and forget them
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Acehnese interpreted the disaster in various ways.
Social Sciences
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Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to eastern and western ...
Detroit's reparations task force has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may help
The work of crafting reparations at the municipal level is fierce.
Social Sciences
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Archaeologists uncover maize's significance to Casarabe people—and their ducks
A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in Germany, working with a colleague from the U.K. and another from Brazil, has found new evidence of the importance of maize to precolonial people living in the ...
From pop songs to baby names: How Simeulue Island's 'smong' narrative evolves post-tsunami
Off the southern coast of Aceh lies Simeulue, a small island with a powerful story of survival. When the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami killed hundreds of thousands across the region in 2004, only five people died on Simeulue—some ...
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Gift-giving was practiced by early humans in Africa—how it spread and evolved
For many countries around the world, December is an intense, commercialized period of gift-giving. Not just within families but across all sorts of relationships, such as gifts between buyers and service providers.
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world
Climate and environmental protest is being criminalized and repressed around the world. The criminalization of such protests has received a lot of attention in certain countries, including the UK and Australia. But there ...
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Europe's microstates: The medieval monarchies that survive in our midst
Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border between France and Spain; Liechtenstein, nestled between Switzerland and Austria; Monaco, which sits ...
Political science
Dec 25, 2024
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'House of the Dragon' and families fighting for power—it can happen in business, too
While most agree that HBO's hit fantasy show "House of the Dragon" (HotD) might be an interesting dive into the chaos of the Middle Ages, less has been said about its lessons for the contemporary business world.
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Could trusting each other more unlock economic growth?
Trust in Britain's institutions is in bad shape, according to recent data from the European Social Survey.
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Switching off from work can be difficult but taking a proper break is good for your health
It's never been easier to stay connected to work. Even when we're on leave, our phones and laptops keep us tethered. Many of us promise ourselves we won't check emails during our break. But we do.
Social Sciences
Dec 25, 2024
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Businesses must stop caving to political pressure and abandoning their equity, diversity and inclusion commitments
Over the past year, several major corporations have scaled back their equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives amid shifting political pressures. Walmart is one of the latest major corporations to reduce its EDI ...
Economics & Business
Dec 25, 2024
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Researcher calculates Santa's speed on Christmas Eve—and this is what it would do to Rudolph's nose
With billions of children around the world anxiously waiting for their presents, Father Christmas (or Santa) and his reindeer must be traveling at breakneck speeds to deliver them all in one night.
Mathematics
Dec 24, 2024
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Middle children grow up to be more honest and cooperative than only children, study suggests
A pair of psychologists, one with Brock University, the other with the University of Calgary, both in Canada, has found evidence suggesting that middle children who grow up with multiple siblings tend to be more honest and ...
Searching for hidden medieval stories from the island of the Sagas
Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. This literary tradition stretches all the ...
Archaeology
Dec 24, 2024
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Civil society: A quiet revolution in economic research
Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost exclusive focus on market transactions ...
Economics & Business
Dec 24, 2024
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Japanese atomic bomb survivors say Nobel Peace Prize gives fresh impetus to disarmament push
Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them a fresh incentive to campaign for nuclear disarmament ahead of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 attacks.
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Dec 24, 2024
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