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Jan 8, 2025 | 
socialsciencespace.com | Joe Sweeney |Jenna Collins |Christopher A Pollard
January 8, 2025 5 In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines the overlooked gender bias in CPR training equipment.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Christopher A Pollard
Book Review: Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty, translated by Willard Wood (Scribe)Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: Is the social inequality we observe every day natural? Drawing on historical economic data from around the world, Piketty describes a tendency from the late 18th century toward greater political and socioeconomic equality.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Christopher A Pollard |Sessional Academic
By Christopher Pollard, Sessional Academic in Sociology and Philosophy, Deakin University
Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural? Drawing on historical economic data from around the world, Piketty describes a tendency since the late 18th century toward greater political and socioeconomic equality.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Christopher A Pollard
10 hours agoA bullet failed to silence her, now Malala Yousafzai is lending her voice to the women of Afghanistan. In just a few years since the Taliban retook control of the country, women's rights have been eroded to the point where even singing is banned. Malala has a personal history with the Taliban across …
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Christopher A Pollard |Melissa Coade |Tom Ravlic |Daniel Holmes
A quarter of public servants say they are using artificial intelligence (AI) at work. Of more than 1,800 respondents to The Mandarin’s Frank and Fearless survey, 26.67% said they were using AI in their current role. State-based respondents were slightly more likely to be using AI than those at the Commonwealth level, at 28.79% compared to 24.96%. Frank and Fearless respondents were most likely to say they were neither excited nor concerned about using generative AI, at 32.19%.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Christopher A Pollard |Scott Hamilton |Stuart Kells |Tom Ravlic
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Christopher A Pollard |Tom Ravlic |Julian Bajkowski |Shannon Jenkins
Governments are expected to deliver digital solutions that provide greater efficiencies and better customer experiences while working with systems and approaches that might not be fit for purpose. How do public service leaders embark on modernisation while managing risk and dealing with growing data demands, tightening budgets and workforce shortages?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Christopher A Pollard
“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom?
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Christopher A Pollard |Sessional Academic
By Christopher Pollard, Sessional Academic in Sociology and Philosophy, Deakin University
“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom?
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Christopher A Pollard
8 hours agoRepublican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said Sunday he did not regret spreading baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and that amplifying the claims drew media attention to his and former President Donald Trump's criticisms of U.S. border …
