The British mathematician Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computing, asked himself in 1950 the question: can machines think? Right away he also wondered: can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do? We now ask ourselves: is ChatGPT the answer to Turing? At the moment, many mathematicians have already detected that, in our discipline, the chatbot “fails more […] … learn more→

What part should the company take in the vocational training of young people? The question is not new, nor are the demands for a match between the courses offered and the needs of companies. There are many relationships between schools and companies. Putting it into perspective makes it possible to identify the great diversity of experiences over […] … learn more→

The number of parents giving money on demand in lieu of pay has been on the rise of late. Is this a good option? The key is not so much in giving or not giving pay, but in how it is given. Learn money management Giving our children some money each week is an excellent opportunity for them to […] … learn more→

The importance of protecting our society’s health and well-being became starkly apparent during the pandemic. People’s physical and mental health were severely impacted by the sudden changes forced by the emergent global crisis. Although nations reacted quickly at the onset, coming back from the pandemic has been difficult. Overlapping crises including the renewed urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement […] … learn more→

Title of course: “Sociology of Guns” What prompted the idea for the course? I grew up in the liberal culture of the San Francisco Bay Area and never touched a firearm until I was 42 years old, living in North Carolina and teaching sociology at Wake Forest University. For the past 10-plus years I have been […] … learn more→

Western sciences have little grasped the issue of ignorance despite the fact that, in the words of Karl Popper , “our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance is necessarily infinite”, with important consequences for our lives. . This is observed by Robert N. Proctor in the introduction to a collective work on agnotology published in 2008. This […] … learn more→

The current funding crisis in New Zealand universities has not happened in a vacuum. It is a byproduct of the neoliberal “reforms” introduced here in the 1980s and which have affected every aspect of university work. Nor is this confined to New Zealand. The stress on corporate capitalism, adoption of business practices, and prioritisation of economic goals […] … learn more→

Parents today spend more time with their children than ever before. Yet, at the same time, they worry more than previous generations about doing enough – believing a lack of engagement may harm their child’s future success and wellbeing. This can have negative impacts. Increased social pressures on mothers to be engaged with their children, compared to fathers, […] … learn more→

As tourists head to airports this summer, American travelers are likely to see groups of young people in matching T-shirts awaiting flights to Latin America or further afield. Their T-shirts sport biblical verses or phrases like “Here I am, send me” or “Called to serve,” and the teens may gather for prayer before boarding. These […] … learn more→

It is not uncommon to find, more and more, texts adapted with fonts specially designed to help people with dyslexia in reading . These are the fonts known in English as dyslexia friendly : Dyslexie, EasyReading(TM), OpenDyslexic, Read Regular(TM) and Sylexiad, among others. These sources have two main characteristics: Graphical features of the appearance of the letters to avoid confusion between […] … learn more→