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Can COVID misinformation cost lives? 🔊

Can COVID misinformation cost lives? 🔊

Aug 31, 2020 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology

Misinformation is rampant about COVID-19, and in some cases, it has caused death, blindness, emergency health issues, widespread stigma, and social ostracization. Holly Seale and Md. Saiful Islam were part of a team that studied the rumors, conspiracies, and...
What is behind the political unrest in Belarus? 🔊

What is behind the political unrest in Belarus? 🔊

Aug 31, 2020 | Politics & Society

On August 9, 2020, Belarussian voters went to the polls in a presidential election. Long-time president Alexander Lukashenko who has governed the nation since 1994 and who is often called Europe’s last dictator claimed victory. Lukashenko announced he had won the...
Is the cyberattack on NZX a wakeup call for New Zealand?

Is the cyberattack on NZX a wakeup call for New Zealand?

Aug 27, 2020 | Politics & Society

By Logan Carmichael Cyberattacks are taking place with increasing frequency, and with increasing capability to do widespread damage. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) halted trading as a result of Distributed Denial of Service...
Should we be worried about COVID-19 conspiracy theories?

Should we be worried about COVID-19 conspiracy theories?

Aug 27, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society

By M Dentith Polls indicate that the public broadly supports the coalition government’s COVID-19 pandemic response, and public condemnation of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 is easy to find. When the Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, and the Director-General of...
What are our rights when people commit wrongs? An examination about punishment as a right

What are our rights when people commit wrongs? An examination about punishment as a right

Aug 26, 2020 | Politics & Society, Referee

By Sam Meyerhoff “Were punishment made a right, there are two possible ways to formulate it: either as a right to be punished for the choices we make, or a right to punish those who wrong us.” Earlier this year, the Equal Justice Project had the honour of...
Substance or descriptive representation: What Does Kamala Harris’s VP candidacy really represent?

Substance or descriptive representation: What Does Kamala Harris’s VP candidacy really represent?

Aug 26, 2020 | Politics & Society, Referee

By Oggy Nweke “As a Black woman, Senator Harris’s presence within the United States Senate helps address the gulf between the 15% percent African-American demographic within society and the four single African-American senators in the current Congress.”...
How did climate change make the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely?

How did climate change make the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely?

Aug 20, 2020 | Science & Technology

By Lauren Vargo Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers in New Zealand melted the most in at least four decades: 2011 and 2018. Both years...
How can water help us adapt to survive as the climate changes? ▶

How can water help us adapt to survive as the climate changes? ▶

Aug 20, 2020 | Science & Technology

The natural sciences that allow us to understand the environment are at the heart of developing strategies to adapt to, survive, and thrive as climate changes. Water is at the heart of many of the most complex problems in climate sciences: understanding the behavior...
Why does New Zealand need to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak?

Why does New Zealand need to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak?

Aug 19, 2020 | Science & Technology

By David Welch Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are now 17 cases of...
How does social media influence political campaigning and communication? 🔊

How does social media influence political campaigning and communication? 🔊

Aug 18, 2020 | Politics & Society

Social media has become a key feature in politics and communication and will likely play a significant role in the 2020 US election. The Trump administration has threatened sanctions against social media sites TikTok and WeChat, a move which...
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