The University of Toronto in Canada raised its graduate-student stipends last November.Credit: James Wagner/Getty Stipends for biology and physics graduate students at Canadian universities fall well short of a living wage, an analysis reports. “All of the minimum stipends we found were below the poverty line after tuition, except for the physics department at the […]
6. “No business takes responsibility anymore. You just always get the runaround. If you have a problem, there is, in many cases, nobody who will fix it…” “… This month, I was overcharged $700 on my phone bill. I called customer service, and after waiting an hour on hold, they said I needed to go to […]
Your editorial ‘Science communication will benefit from research integrity standards’ highlights the challenge of communicating uncertainty in science to the public (Nature 6358; 2024). But it overlooks a more fundamental issue: science communication itself has a communication problem. Competing Interests The author declares no competing interests.
Credit: David Attie/Getty In 2003, Wendy Dossett chaired an international symposium at a UK university. “I don’t remember chairing it. I know that I did, but I don’t remember anything that happened,” she says. At the time, she did not think that she had an alcohol problem. “I thought I could not possibly be an […]
Voting for the National Society of Film Critics is now complete and films like “Nickel Boys” and “A Real Pain” took home top honors. NSFC was founded in 1966 and is comprised of over 60 critics hailing from outlets nationally. These journalists mark their annual voting selections for categories such as best picture, director, actor, […]
Wildfires around the world are overwhelming fire services and becoming humanitarian disasters. Rather than short-term ‘save and rescue’ efforts focusing on just the flames, there should be more widespread recognition that fire is a natural process that is essential and unavoidable. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests.
A building well-known to fans of classic rock was destroyed Thursday, when a massive fire tore through the downtown Los Angeles building made famous by The Doors album Morrison Hotel. The four-story structure at South Hope Street had been vacant for 15 years, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a written statement, but had […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As we enter the holiday season, many young people are no doubt beginning to consider their future options. With a range of paths to pursue, a high rate of youth unemployment in Canada and a higher education sector facing unprecedented challenges it may seem logical to wonder if university is worth […]
Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past, or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ‘conscious awareness of ignorance’1 — be it of the weather tomorrow, the next Premier League champions, the climate in 2100 […]
As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot like science fiction. A book that people often point to is Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (2020). The novel opens in 2025, with a deadly heatwave in India — a topic that […]
