Floating cities: the future or a washed-up idea?
Humans have a long history of living on water. Our water homes span the fishing villages in Southeast Asia, Peru and Bolivia to modern floating homes in Vancouver and Amsterdam
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UCCS secretly took photos of hundreds of students in facial recognition study
The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is under fire after secretly taking more than 1,700 photos of students without their knowledge.
Nancy Pelosi clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook
Facebook has said it won’t remove a doctored video that makes Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi appear incoherent. One upload of the clip has been viewed more than 2.5 million times - and remains visible.
Employers ‘to drive retraining demand’
Australian report suggests that business economics, not workers’ survival, will drive lifelong learning boom
Active learning relies on experience more than space
Penn State’s Kyle Bowen says experience takes priority over space as students and instructors embark on more active approaches to learning
GAME OVER: RAs call the COPS on students playing video game
Resident assistants called the police on a group of University of Maryland students playing the video game “Quiplash.”
5 things we learned about urban transformation
Positive change happens in cities, but it’s often lost in a sea of bad news about air pollution, rising costs of living, traffic jams and inequality.
Human staff will always be needed, Amazon insists
Amazon’s warehouses will always need human staff, the firm’s chief robotics technologist has told the BBC.
What the freshmen are reading
Many common reading assignments this year focus on issues of diversity, free speech and immigration.
Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
