You may think you scroll too much, but psychologists caution against calling it an addiction.
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As the word “ceasefire” gains currency in Congress, some lawmakers are coupling their calls for peace in Gaza with conditions that cannot be met.
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Have you recently written an honours thesis for your Bachelor’s degree? Or another similar in-depth study? If so, did you enjoy the research and writing process? Did it turn out well in the end?
If so, you might consider capping it off by applying for this year’s JAPE Young Scholars’ Award.
Each year the editors of the Journal of Australian Political Economy consider applications from students who are interested in converting their research and writing into an article for publication in an academic journal. The successful applicant gets $2,000 and personal advice and guidance about producing an article of publishable standard. The article can be considered for inclusion in a future issue of JAPE.
Applications normally close at the end of November each year. This year, however, the deadline has been extended to December 10th.
As ITV pays £1.5 million to platform the politician on 'I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!', a Byline Times investigation reveals how he charged £75 to use what appears to be a serious racial slur in a personalised video message
If you’re thinking of giving to charity this holiday season, please consider Cartoonist Rights, an organization dedicated to protecting cartoonists from threats all around the world. Here is their site with more info: https://cartoonistsrights.org/home/
The indictment for the brazen murder-for-hire plot brings more heat onto India for its alleged transnational assassination program.
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“I think this is a ridiculous position to put us in,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of the negotiations.
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Always, but always, plot your data. Remember that data quality is at least as important as data quantity. Always ask yourself, “Do these results make economic/common sense”? Check whether your “statistically significant” results are also “numerically/economically significant”. Be sure that you know exactly what assumptions are used/needed to obtain the results relating to the properties of any estimator or […]
Well, not so if they are Palestinian children that Israelis keep killing time and time again. It is part of what Israelis calls ‘mowing the grass’. I wrote the following nine years ago. At last counting there were 1,230 Palestinians killed in Gaza as a result of 3,000 or more air and artillery strikes. 56 Continue reading »
The Australian Secret Intelligence Service was established in 1950 to conduct spying overseas and morally repulsive covert operations. It had a slow start, but in the 1970s it sent three staff to Chile to help the CIA overthrow the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende. To its credit, ASIS opposed the deployment in which Continue reading »
. Dieses Interview ist wirklich hörenswert. Yours truly schätze Dirk Ehnts’ eher pragmatische Haltung gegenüber MMT und der Frage des Umgangs mit Staatsschulden. Er warnt davor, die MMT-Theorie als eine Art Allheilmittel zu betrachten. Er betont die Notwendigkeit, die Anwendung der MMT-Prinzipien an die spezifischen Gegebenheiten eines Landes anzupassen. Zudem weist er darauf hin, dass […]
Here's a sneak preview for BBC's David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring Doctor Who 60th anniversary episode "Wild Blue Yonder."
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
Campaigners say press standards have barely improved with newspapers still allowed to mark their own homework