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DFA confirms third Filipino fatality in Maui wildfires

MANILA – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday confirmed another Filipino fatality in the devastating wildfires that broke out on the island of Maui,...

PBBM backs streamlined visa application for tourists, students

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has backed the Private Sector Advisory Council’s (PSAC) recommendation to streamline the visa application process for tourists and international...

Why are ‘photo dumps’ so popular? A digital communications expert explains

It’s summer 2009. You’ve been to a “campout” with your school friends in someone’s back garden and taken a bunch of out-of-focus pictures on your digital...

The order in which you acquire diseases could affect your life expectancy – new research

More than 25% of adults in the UK have two or more long-term health conditions. This increases to 65% for people older than 65 years, and...

Geoengineering sounds like a quick climate fix, but without more research and guardrails, it’s a costly gamble − with potentially harmful results

When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the...

Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my colleagues...

Israel’s democracy protests: What happens next?

The massive pro-democracy protests that shook Israel since January 2023, when its right-wing government introduced so-called “judicial reforms,” have quieted down for a while. The country’s...

Presidential pauses? What those ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ really tell us about candidates for the White House

What the pope’s visit to Mongolia says about his priorities and how he is changing the Catholic Church

Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Mongolia, which is home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, has elicited curiosity among Catholics and non-Catholics alike. This will be the...

Learn and relearn French outside of Quebec

(Version française disponible ici) As a wayward Franco-Ontarian, I am perhaps a perfect example of the successes and failures of French-language education in Canada outside of Quebec....