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Guide to the classics: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden has always been controversial

John Steinbeck is now most famous as author of The Grapes of Wrath (1938), a novel about agricultural workers displaced from Oklahoma during the Great Depression. But he regarded East of Eden (1952), a saga depicting the lives of two Californian families, as his favourite and most significant work.

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An Alberta school chat listed girls to assault. The response shows Canada still has a rape culture problem

Gender-based violence researchers, feminists and activists use the term “rape culture” to describe a society where violence against women, girls and gender-diverse people is normalized, victims are blamed and perpetrators are routinely excused.

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Isolation as a form of discipline: how should schools manage poor student behaviour?

Last week a group of parents heavily criticised prestigious Victorian private school Geelong Grammar for using isolation as a form of discipline during a year-long boarding school program. The disciplinary action was taken after a group of Year 9s snuck away to a nearby pub at night. As a result,…

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People can learn to spot AI faces – but the clues are no longer obvious

Deepfake faces generated via artificial intelligence (AI) have become so realistic that they routinely fool people, with some research suggesting there may be US$40 billion worth of deepfake-related fraud annually by 2027.

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MDMA and psilocybin therapy rules have been relaxed. Here’s what might happen next

Psilocybin (the active ingredient of magic mushrooms) and MDMA (the active ingredient in ecstasy) are psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs that can change how a person sees things and feels.

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New study of 2 million online posts shows persistent anti-Jew and anti-Muslim hate in Australia

Australia has spent much of the past two years responding to anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate as separate problems. But our latest research suggests they have something important in common.

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Could this be Australia’s warmest winter ever?

Many parts of Australia have already broken early winter maximum and minimum temperature records.

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Adversity can follow NZ kids to the classroom. Can schools make a difference?

By their eighth birthday, an estimated nine in ten New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity.

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Canada gave Ukrainians safety, but building a future was harder

The Canadian response to Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s large-scale invasion has been praised as one of the country’s most generous humanitarian responses in recent history. Through the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program, known as CUAET, nearly 300,000 Ukrainians came to Canada with temporary permission to live, work and study.

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Canada is getting old — and that’s our biggest advantage for 2067

Canada will cross the threshold into a “superaged” society this year, with at least one in five people over 65.

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Fireworks, heat and drought put this July 4th at high risk for wildfires

Across the United States, the sky will be erupting with fireworks on July 4, 2026, and the days around it as America celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence. Many cities will be hosting spectacular fireworks shows.

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Shattered dreams on Canada Day: Broken immigration promises are based on false narratives

With Canada Day almost upon us, some new Canadians will celebrate in nationwide citizenship ceremonies — but countless migrants are facing the reality that they may never reach that milestone.

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When companies face hostile takeover threats, they turn to ESG — and the whole community benefits

When a company faces the prospect of a hostile takeover, its board may reach for traditional anti-takeover defences. “Poison pills,” for instance, allow existing shareholders to buy additional shares at a discount, diluting a would-be acquirer’s stake and making the target more expensive to absorb.

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Does traffic drive street crime? Our study investigated

Picture a busy road running through a residential neighbourhood. The noise, the fumes, the danger to cyclists and pedestrians – all familiar concerns. But here is one you might not have considered: that traffic may also be making your street more prone to vandalism, burglary and violence.

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Supporting women in early labour is important for safe maternity care

The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust report has identified serious failings in care at one of England’s largest maternity services, with lessons for maternity units nationally. Among its findings was a repeated problem at the very start of labour: women and families struggled to access timely assessment and felt dismissed…

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Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking

Trigger warning: this article includes references to infant death and institutional abuse

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Colombia’s new president ‘El Tigre’ promises an iron fist – but that may not solve the violence he has inherited

Colombia’s president-elect, Abelardo De La Espriella, widely known as “El Tigre”, will inherit a country deeply affected by insecurity.

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Kenyans living in towns are farmers too: what this means for rural landscapes

More and more of Kenya’s farmlands are coming under the control of people who live and work in urban centres. Over the past two decades, the proportion they control has grown to nearly a third of Kenya’s total agricultural land.

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Could AI create a new form of inequality in South Africa?

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), and especially large language models deployed as chatbots and digital assistants, are now part of everyday digital life.

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The 20km ripple effect: how mines can trigger distant deforestation in Africa

The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper and cobalt. These are needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Sub-Saharan Africa hosts about 30% of the world’s mineral reserves, including huge quantities of critical minerals: 92%…

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Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?

In May 2026, in his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas – signed on the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum – Pope Leo XIV warned the world about the dangers of the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), categorically calling machine learning “a form of statistical adaptation based on data…

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The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home

Think about the last time you used your phone to find your way somewhere. What would happen if, halfway through the journey, the route instructions vanished or your phone battery died? You might find yourself starting to panic. But once you notice something familiar or are able to ask someone…

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‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires

After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland.

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Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space

In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds of weightlessness, just like an astronaut.

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Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship

In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy marks the passing of her late mother by fathoming her on the page for the first time. “I wrote versions of her in my books”, Roy explains, “but I never wrote her.”

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