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Seven steps to success in scaling social programmes
Breanna Wright | July 1, 2024A new online resource outlines a seven-step process to help program managers and social innovators expand a program and deliver it at scale.
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Women in diplomacy
Elise Stephenson | July 1, 2024Australia has made remarkable strides in gender equality in diplomacy, achieving near parity in its Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. However, globally, women remain underrepresented in diplomacy, highlighting the need for continued efforts to address gender disparities and ensure equal representation worldwide.
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The dire debate
Adam Bartley | July 1, 2024Joe Biden looked old against an unrepentant Donald Trump in the first presidential debate of the 2024 US Presidential election. What can be gleaned from perhaps the worst Presidential debate in history?
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A magic pill or a mass experiment?
Natasha Yates | June 30, 2024The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it – sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies.
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Reverse the polarity
Mark Taylor | June 30, 2024British science fiction institution Doctor Who has undergone many changes over its 60+ years, but the latest incarnation of the time traveling enigma has split fandom down the middle.
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A handful of seashells
Amelia Anderson | June 30, 2024Along with the births, weddings and funerals, it’s the little moments that make up a life, the ones only you notice, the ones which stay with you a while.
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Speak free or die
Mark Taylor | June 29, 2024Free speech is not merely about the right to speak; it is about the right to think. It is about the fundamental human dignity that comes from being treated as a rational agent capable of processing information and forming one’s own conclusions. To deny this right is to deny our very humanity.
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Safe havens for wildlife
Open Forum | June 29, 2024In a groundbreaking new article, a coalition of conservationists and researchers have shown how we can protect Earth’s remaining biodiversity by conserving just a tiny percentage of the planet’s surface.
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Trade rules should encompass digital trade
John Denton | June 28, 2024The shift to digital technology calls for the movement of data and information across borders, with all stakeholders depending on seamless and uninterrupted information flows across companies and countries.
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Flat Earth society
Anders Furze | June 28, 2024Although every piece of evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are still some people who think our planet is flat, and they all have YouTube channels.
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Rolling back ransomware
Erza Aminanto | June 28, 2024Criminals around the world use malicious software to lock access to a victim’s data and demand a ransom for its recovery, so what can we do to protect ourselves?
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Beyond the hype
Ridoan Karim | June 27, 2024Is AI development is on an unstoppable exponential trajectory that we humans can’t control, or is the technology stagnating as its insatiable hunger for power and training data outstrips its commercial potential.
