To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
Oct 27, 2023 15:01 pm UTC| Life
Title of course: Alcohol in American Literature What prompted the idea for the course? I got the idea for the course when I was writing a chapter on the temperance movement in American literature for my doctoral...
Oct 27, 2023 15:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Life
In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals. As of 2022, big investment firms owned nearly...
Pumpkin waste: three ways to stop your leftover lantern becoming a Halloween horror story
Oct 27, 2023 14:59 pm UTC| Life
This Halloween, around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins will go to waste in the UK alone. Thats because, of the 30 million purchased each year, about half go entirely uneaten. Thats 27 million worth of edible food. The global...
How the world might look if animals had legal rights
Oct 27, 2023 14:58 pm UTC| Life Law
Lets picture what our societies might look like if animals were granted rights against being killed, made to suffer or exploited for human gain. When activists argue for animal rights, they ask us to imagine a different...
Energy bills: how households could feel the cold this winter
Oct 27, 2023 14:57 pm UTC| Life
As winter starts to bite, you may be starting to worry again about how much you will have to pay for your gas and electricity over the coming months. Of course, energy isnt the only rising cost in the current inflation-led...
Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here's how
Oct 27, 2023 14:54 pm UTC| Life
Up to 3.7 million Australian households have been hit by food insecurity this year many for the first time. Of these households, four in five say the reason is the rising cost of living, as interest rate rises and many...
How organizations can address toxic workplace cultures to tackle sexual harassment
Oct 27, 2023 14:52 pm UTC| Life
Sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Canadian workplaces, and organizations are not doing enough to address it. A 2022 report by the Canadian Labour Congress indicates nearly one in two workers have experienced...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects