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Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself

For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation.

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‘Carbon contracts for difference’ are not a silver bullet for climate action

With the end of the supply-and-confidence agreement and plummeting support for the Liberals, Canada’s climate policy mix is becoming increasingly unstable with the future of everything from investment tax credits to carbon pricing seemingly in flux.

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Drop in drug poisoning deaths does not necessarily indicate Alberta Recovery Model is working

More than 47,000 Canadians have died of opioid toxicity since 2016. Some have attributed this crisis to the over-prescription of medical-use opioids and the presence of potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl analogues in the illicit drug market.

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What’s behind Canada’s housing crisis? Experts break down the different factors at play

Canadians are in the grip of a deepening housing crisis, yet not everyone agrees on what exactly the housing crisis is. The common narrative focuses on an affordability crisis for homeownership, attributed to either excessive demand from immigrants and foreign buyers or a lack of supply.

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Presidential immunity has clear limits, special counsel filing says, and Trump should be tried for efforts to overturn 2020 election

A new filing by special counsel Jack Smith in the case he has brought against Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election provides greater detail and support for Smith’s argument that Trump, while president, committed illegal acts to reverse his 2020 election loss.

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World Update: Middle East conflict escalating rapidly – there’s no telling where it will end

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Michael Gove, Spectator editor: an expert explains the long relationship between Westminster and the media

Michael Gove has a new job. The former Conservative MP and senior government minister will take over as editor of The Spectator this month, assuming the UK’s advisory committee on business appointments raises no objections.

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Four in five pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient – here’s why that’s worrying

More than 80% of pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient by their third trimester, according to a new study my colleagues and I conducted. What we found particularly surprising was that the women were in otherwise good health.

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Portraits of Dangerous Women offers little danger – but is an intriguing slice of English life nonetheless

At one point in the new movie Portraits of Dangerous Women, young woman Ashley (Yasmin Monet Prince) is talking to gallery owner Jon (Mark Lewis Jones) about her collection of found photographs. “I just want to put them in …”, “context?” Jon ventures. “No, frames” Ashley corrects. This seemingly simple…

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My Old Ass: why we should imagine talking to our older rather than younger selves, according to an expert in psychology

In the film My Old Ass, on a trip to an island with friends and some hallucinogenic mushrooms, Elliott has a unique experience where she gets to meet her older self. This sets the scene for a dialogue where 39-year-old Elliott gets to reflect and impart advice about the things…

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Cuffing season: an evolutionary explanation for why people want to settle down for the winter months

Does the effort you invest in seeking a romantic partner intensify as summer ends? During the colder, darker months, people have been known to engage in “cuffing season”, which means attaching yourself to or having a physical relationship with someone just for the cold winter months.

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Maasai Mara’s Indigenous forest is disappearing, with drastic consequences

Next to the world-famous Maasai Mara national reserve, an indigenous forest called Nyekweri serves as a sanctuary for elephants, rare birds such as the bright green Schalow’s turaco, a small nocturnal mammal called the tree hyrax and the endangered giant pangolin.

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The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest and most distant known galaxies, which existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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Why women are still being underdiagnosed with heart disease

Women in the UK continue to be underdiagnosed and under-treated for cardiovascular diseases, a recent statement from the British Cardiovascular Societies has concluded. While there are many reasons for this, part of the problem is that cardiovascular disease is still seen as a “man’s condition”.

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How the Middle East conflict could influence the US election – and why Arab Americans in swing states might vote for Trump

As we near the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel, the conflict in the Middle East has escalated significantly. Iran just launched nearly 200 missiles on Israel, and Israel has continued its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza.

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Up against Hank Greenberg, baseball’s first Jewish superstar, antisemitism struck out

Hank Greenberg might be the best baseball player you’ve never heard of.

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Oasis reunion: How to stop your sibling feud from becoming a lifelong estrangement

Is it possible that Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis have resolved their longstanding sibling feud well enough to be able to mount, and follow through on, a world concert tour after 15 years of estrangement?

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The ESA’s Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART probe two years ago

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will travel several hundred million kilometres to reach the double asteroid Didymos in autumn 2026.

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Israeli actions have the cover of ‘moral hazard’ − a touch of ambiguity might give US pressure greater weight

Sometimes, superpowers have a hard time getting smaller allies to do what they want with the assistance they provide. Often, it is to the detriment of the larger power’s interests.

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Wretched of the Earth has been translated into South Africa’s Zulu language – why Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary book still matters

Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is still widely referenced to understand the fight against colonialism and also the postcolonial era…

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Latino voters are a growing force in Pennsylvania’s old industrial towns − and they could provide Harris or Trump with their margin of victory

After Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president in early September 2024, posting a message to her 284 million fans on Instagram, some Democratic strategists suggested that an endorsement from Puerto Rican recording artist Bad Bunny could do more to sway the election – particularly in the key swing state…

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Bottled up in the Black Sea: Russia is having a dreadful naval war, hindering its great power ambitions

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has played out largely on land and in the air. It is a bitterly contested, grueling ground war, accompanied by brutal Russian aerial attacks on civilian infrastructure and a slow but increasing Ukrainian response.

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Black Pentecostal and charismatic Christians are boosting their visibility in politics − a shift from the past

Many Black leaders are swinging into action for the Harris-Walz campaign – and clergy are no exception.

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In ‘Nobody Wants This,’ rom-com gets century-old tropes with a new twist – the cute rabbi

Twenty years ago, the television show “The O.C.” invented the word “Chrismukkah.” Main character Seth Cohen, played by Adam Brody, described his interfaith family’s December tradition of “eight days of presents followed by one day of lots of presents.”

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Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracán taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves

The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not polytheists who worshipped distinct gods but pantheists who believed that various gods were just manifestations of that force.

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