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Speaking at a TED conference in Vancouver last Thursday, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, announced ...

SPEAKING at a TED conference in Vancouver last Thursday, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, announced ...

"Devious Licks" challenge has prompted some North American school districts to warn their students and criminal charges have been laid in some cases.

At a time when public health officials are touting the importance of proper hand hygiene amid the CO...

But while UBI is desirable in principle, it’s not a magic solution to the intricate and perennial problems of poverty and income inequality. Furthermore, its implementation in Canada is not financially, administratively, politically or constitutionally feasible. Within emerging literature on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and earning levels, UBI has been elevated to the status of a panacea that could ease all the social and economic ills that societies are encounter...

In  Algorithmic Desire, Matthew Flisfeder shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The preeminent medium of our time, social media’s digital platform and algorithmic logic shape our experience of democracy, enjoyment, and desire. Weaving between critical theory and analyses of popular culture, Flisfeder uses examples from  The King’s Speech,  Black Mirror,  The Circle, and  Arrival to argue that social media ...