South Koreans turn funeral wreaths and K-pop light sticks into political protest tools
SEOUL (AP) — South Koreans are repurposing flower wreaths and K-pop light sticks as political protest tools amid the nation’s ...
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Navigating deepfakes and synthetic media: This course helps students demystify artificial intelligence technologies
Besides academic journal articles, we draw extensively from articles and videos published by The New York Times, The Washington Post and other major news outlets to analyze misinformation stories.
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Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... Technology students came up with nearly 20 years ago. More than 764,000 articles that cite ...
What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: 4 essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism
When a leader’s supporters are more loyal to the person than their political party, that creates what is called a “personalist party,” as scholars of political science Erica Frantz at Michigan State ...
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
Even when bogus papers are spotted – usually by amateur sleuths on their own time – academic journals are often slow to retract the papers, allowing the articles to taint what many consider sacrosanct ...
ONCE UPON OUR TIMES: Mainly bad news reported in Black’s Gap and Mount Union in 1900
In my last letter I noted the illness of an only daughter of Thomas Bohn. This illness terminated in her death Saturday ...
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Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... After contacting 1,700 public and private archives in Germany and worldwide to find more, ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University (THE CONVERSATION) When I first landed an ...
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Hochul proposes massive state investment in downtown Albany, State Museum
In a preview of the plan obtained by the Times Union, the governor’s office says ... did not mention Hochul’s blueprint at a Monday news conference about public safety.
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Even when the bogus papers are spotted – usually by amateur sleuths on their own time – academic journals are often slow to retract the papers, allowing the articles to taint what many consider ...
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I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... sifting through more than 54,000 documents located on the National Archive’s website.
Times when the Union Budget was leaked before being tabled
Although, India has maintained a clean track record of confidentiality with the budget, there were two times when the budget ...