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Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (theconversation.com)

The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

Ditching the young entrepreneur myth: research shows over-50s are the more radical innovators (theconversation.com)

Based on data on 2,900 founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017, we found that for every ten more years of age increases a founder’s likelihood to introduce a market novelty by up to 30 percent. Thus, those late-career entrepreneurs who are highly innovation-oriented and managerially experienced are more than three...

Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies (theconversation.com)

Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies::Math is more than memorizing times tables and doing homework problems. It is woven into more aspects of your life than you might think.

Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government's initial response when disasters strike islands (theconversation.com)

An expert on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria explains why it’s hard for the US to deliver disaster aid in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Conspiracy theories: how social media can help them spread and even spark violence (theconversation.com)

Conspiracy theories: how social media can help them spread and even spark violence::Conspiracy theories may be baseless, but they can have a range of harmful real-world consequences, including spreading lies, undermining trust in media and government and inciting violence.

'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots (theconversation.com)

‘Limitless’ energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots::New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't (theconversation.com)

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.

Cambodia: five decades on from the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen proves himself the ultimate survivor with his plan to hand power to his son (theconversation.com)

As he prepares to hand over power to his son after 38 years in power, veteran Cambodian leader Hun Sen, has come a long way since his early days as a Khmer Rouge fighter.

Decades of encouraging recycling in the US have crowded out messaging on reducing the amount of plastics and non-recyclable wastes, with many consumers confused about what can actually be recycled ... (theconversation.com)

New research shows that Americans may have absorbed public messaging about the importance of recycling too well.

Researchers find evidence of a 2,000-year-old curry, the oldest ever found in Southeast Asia (theconversation.com)

In a paper published today in Science Advances, we and our colleagues detail our findings of what seems to be evidence of Southeast Asia’s oldest known curry. It’s also the oldest evidence of curry ever found outside India.

[The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find (theconversation.com)

[The Conversation] - Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t (theconversation.com)

[The Conversation] - Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system (theconversation.com)

[The Conversation] - Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible – a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead (theconversation.com)

As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body? (theconversation.com)

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Exercise may or may not help you lose weight and keep it off – here’s the evidence for both sides of the debate (theconversation.com)

A 1-minute gun safety video helped preteen children be more careful around real guns – new research (theconversation.com)

What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil (theconversation.com)

Returning to the Moon can benefit commercial, military and political sectors – a space policy expert explains (theconversation.com)

Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated material is still surprising scientists (theconversation.com)

Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US -- Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult (theconversation.com)