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Month: May 2021

Children & Family

“Mamma, Do You Love Me?” – A New Poetry Book by Dominique Forbes

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“MAMMA, DO YOU LOVE ME?” – Life through the eyes of a child who sees no grey is a poetry book that consists of 100 + poems, has been tested and proven! ABOUT THE BOOK […]

Children & Family

Expanding the definition of family to reflect our realities

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The second Monday in February is Family Day in parts of Canada. Started in Alberta in 1990, four additional provinces celebrate Family Day: British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick. (Other provinces have holidays reflecting their […]

Home & Decor

Renovating your home could ruin your relationship … but it doesn’t have to

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Many Canadians have turned to home renovations to find space — both literally and metaphorically — after a year of working, learning, exercising and doing just about everything else from home. As we head into spring and […]

Home & Decor

What adds value to your house? How to decide between renovating and selling

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The government’s HomeBuilder scheme allows certain home owners to apply for a tax-free grant of A$25,000 if they are spending between $150,000 and $750,000 renovating a home or building a new home. Eligibility criteria are strict. The scheme has […]

Home & Decor

Have you tested your home for cancer-causing radon gas?

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Back in 2013, in my first winter in my newly renovated Calgary home, I spent $45 on a radon testing kit. This was a logical move. I am an assistant professor in the Cumming School […]

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How intimate partner violence affects children’s health

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Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, but often it doesn’t work out that way. Children are exposed to all the stresses and strains that affect the families and communities in which they grow […]

Children & Family

Children own around 3 digital devices on average, and few can spend a day without them

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More than nine out of ten parents think digital media and technologies are a negative distraction in their lives. And 83% think their children are also negatively distracted by digital devices. These are some of […]

Children & Family

Family meals are good for the grown-ups, too, not just the kids

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For all the parents feeling exhausted by the cooking, cleaning and planning of a million meals during the pandemic, there’s some good news. Commensality, or the sharing of food with others, is beneficial for your […]

Top Stories

  • German firms trapped between US and China, study finds

    Germany’s largest companies are deeply entangled with rival businesses in China and the US, and unable to escape either superpower, according to new research published by the University of Sussex and King’s College London. The [...]
  • How systems science helps keep my flower delivery costs low

    When you go out to run errands on the weekend, you’re on a “tour” as defined by human mobility researchers. Same if you book a guided tour of a famous city or take a trip [...]
  • The Wired Belts are the new Rust Belts: Report ranks which jobs are most vulnerable

    Digital Planet, the research center at the forefront of researching the AI transformation at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, today released the American AI Jobs Risk Index. It is a first-of-its-kind data-driven framework that [...]

Highlights

  • Inside the high-stakes decisions of the NFL draft
  • Study highlights role of risk attitudes in crop insurance outcomes
  • German firms trapped between US and China, study finds
WHAT’S NEW
  • Successful minority employees can create a false sense of diversity
  • New research reveals high option trading fees and barriers to competition
  • AI avatars promise UK growth if laws can put people first
  • Study finds overconfident CEOs are 10-15% less likely to delegate deal work
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • Does a company’s political power affect its success in obtaining federal contracts?
  • Talking about politics at work may support employee well-being, study finds
  • Roll-call votes may understate polarization in Congress, study finds
  • The ‘private solution trap’: Why richer countries may favor adaptation over public solutions, and who pays
Last Thoughts:
  • If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
  • Tourism work builds 100 transferable skills, study shows

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