An education in music makes you a better employee. Are recruiters in tune?
Apr 15, 2024 10:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
See the word musician on a resume and you might not immediately think stellar employee or exceptional leader. Perhaps the word evokes the image of a rock star, in trouble for chucking a television out of a hotel room...
Apr 15, 2024 10:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
Byung-Chul Han is the enigmatic philosopher and author of The Burnout Society and Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. In his latest book The Crisis of Narration, he argues that despite the present...
Apr 15, 2024 10:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga Moana, to recognise whales as legal persons. Aotearoa New Zealand has already...
Why are blooper reels so funny?
Apr 15, 2024 10:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Blooper reels are very popular, with some videos on YouTube racking up tens of millions of views. Its a curious thing: why are videos of mistakes sometimes getting as much attention (or more!) as clips from the actual TV...
If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of
Apr 12, 2024 03:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the doctrine of...
Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS
Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Insights & Views
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas state visit to the White House has already resulted in one of the most ambitious boosts to the United States-Japan alliance. This alliance is now at the core of American strategy to...
Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Israeli army used a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to generate lists of tens of thousands of human targets for potential airstrikes in Gaza, according to a report published last week. The report comes from the...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
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