How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate terms
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How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms
Rather than literally translating English words, experts have focused on visually representing the underlying concepts for these terms.
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How the gender pay gap evolves into a gender pension gap
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How the gender pay gap evolves into a gender pension gap
Decades of lower pay and part-time work can leave women’s pensions worth a fraction of men’s at retirement.
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Cambodia: journalist arrest signals false dawn for democracy as the country slides into authoritarianism
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Cambodia: journalist arrest signals false dawn for democracy as the country slides into authoritarianism
Cambodian investigative journalist, Mech Dara, is facing up to two years in jail.
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Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate
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Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate
High-tech solutions aren’t always the best answers to modern problems.
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I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age
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I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age
Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.
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The Conversation Writers Prize, in partnership with The Curtis Brown Group and Faber
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The Conversation Prize for writers, in partnership with The Curtis Brown Group and Faber
Are you an academic keen to develop a writing career? Do you have a book idea that has the potential to be a nonfiction bestseller? The Conversatio...
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Oil pollution in North Sea is ‘grossly underestimated’, suggests new report
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Oil pollution in North Sea is ‘grossly underestimated’, suggests new report
Oil and gas companies operating in the North Sea are regularly breaching legal limits and releasing too much polluted wastewater, a new report claims.
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Ukraine recap: Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling becomes more ominous
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Ukraine recap: Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling becomes more ominous
A digest of some of the best of our recent coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.
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Ketamine: what you need to know about the UK’s growing drug problem
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Ketamine: what you need to know about the UK’s growing drug problem
More and more people are seeking medical help for problems related to ketamine use.
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The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts
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The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts
Who should pay for the state that Britain is in?
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