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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

The Conversation

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

The Conversation

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

The Conversation

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?

The Conversation

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 […]

Children & Family

How intimate partner violence affects children’s health

The Conversation

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

The Conversation

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

The Conversation

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

  • AI uptake across Italian firms remains patchy, study suggests, despite generative AI buzz

    Research in the International Journal of Business Information Systems suggests that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is remarkably uneven across Italian firms. While some may have made a deliberate choice not to use AI, [...]
  • AI study reveals England’s productivity divide is far more complex than North-South

    Researchers at the University of Manchester have used artificial intelligence to uncover a complex picture behind England’s long-running productivity puzzle, challenging the idea that the country’s economic performance can be explained by a simple North-South [...]
  • Study suggests platforms invite third-party analytics to raise seller prices

    As artificial intelligence and data-driven analytics rapidly transform online retail, a surprising dynamic is emerging: some e-commerce platforms deliberately allow third-party analytics tools to scrape or access marketplace data, even though doing so could weaken [...]

Highlights

  • Research questions legitimacy of promoting harmful products
  • Accelerator programs have more work to do when it comes to supporting women entrepreneurs, research finds
  • AI uptake across Italian firms remains patchy, study suggests, despite generative AI buzz
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  • With history standards prone to politicization, ‘minimalism’ approach would benefit U.S. teachers, scholar argues
  • Foreign direct investment is no silver bullet for growth, research shows
  • Q&A: Why hasn’t the US military used force to secure the Strait of Hormuz?
  • Does a company’s political power affect its success in obtaining federal contracts?
Last Thoughts:
  • Why believing ‘practice makes perfect’ may matter more than grit for students’ grades
  • If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic

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