Written by David Chandross. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. This has been a terrible year for science and evidence-based decision making, which are the newest casualties of the growing wave of populism in North America where “postmodern…
Written by Arvind Gupta, University of Toronto, and AJ Tibando, Ryerson University. Photo credit (Unsplash). Originally published in The Conversation. Mid-career workers have solid business skills valuable to the tech industry. In the movie The Intern, a 70-year-old Robert De…
Written by Anthony Bonato, Ryerson University. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. The Ontario government “back to basics” approach to the curriculum will not best serve children who need a mixture of traditional and discovery learning methods. There’s…
Written by Deborah de Lange, Ryerson University. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn. Originally published in The Conversation. A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on July 8, 2013.…
Written by Yunxiang Gao, Ryerson University. Photo credit Warner Bros. Originally published in The Conversation. Crazy Rich Asians depicts cosmopolitan rich Asians with complex humanities. On the heels of the Afro-centric Black Panther (2018) comes Crazy Rich Asians, a sure…
Written by Nicole W. Forrester, Ryerson University. Photo credit AP Photo/David Goldman. Originally published in The Conversation. Specializing in a specific sport at an early age is not necessary to become an Olympic athlete. In fact, the opposite is true.…
Written by Deborah de Lange, Ryerson University. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Density is an idea sold to us by corporate developers who want to build on every last bit of green space. To fully enjoy our…
Written by Henry Navarro Delgado, Ryerson University. Photo credit THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov. Originally published in The Conversation. Underneath the façade of the Caribbean carnival, historical, cultural and political undercurrents run deep. A parade participant performs during the Grand Parade…
Written by Anthony Bonato and Lyndsay Roach, Ryerson University. Photo credit AP Photo/Evan Vucci. Originally published in The Conversation. President Donald Trump delivers a lot of information through Twitter. Here he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House,…
Written by Nicole W. Forrester. Photo credit Robert Paul/Blizzard Entertainment. Originally published in The Conversation. Jong Seok Kim, a player for the London Spitfires team in the Overwatch League, which gets primetime coverage on ESPN. Will e-sports soon be part…
Written by William Michael Carter. Photo credit Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Will facial recognition software make the world a safer place, as tech firms are claiming, or will it make the marginalized more vulnerable and monitored? My mother…
Written by David Chandross, Ryerson University. Photo credit Sergey Galyonkin, Epic Games Berlin via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. Originally published in The Conversation. Video games have inspired a revolution in university teaching. Pictured here is a scene from the popular…