Lifestyle: US beef industry woos 2.4 million teachers in drive to paint eating meat as socially and environmentally cool
The beef industry “knows it has a trust issue,” says Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami. The industry is attempting to influence public opinion by starting with children, says Jan Dutkiewicz at the Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies.
How housing shortage has forced Canada into capping foreign students admissions
The new proposals will also set limits on post-graduate work permits issued to foreign students, which will likely encourage them to return to their home countries. The permits were previously seen as an easy path to securing permanent residency. People pursuing master’s or post-doctorate programmes will be eligible for a three-year work permit.
South African playwright and creator of Sarafina! Mbongeni Ngema, 68, killed in a car crash
Ngema was killed in a head-on accident while returning from a funeral in a rural town in Eastern Cape Province, the family said in a statement on Wednesday. The celebrated playwright was a passenger in the vehicle.
Transdisciplinarity: Integrating certified and non-certified experts, stakeholders and practitioners in one spectrum of thinking and action
Specifically, to be certified is to be officially recognised as possessing certain qualifications or meeting certain standards. The standards met might be for a diploma, a first degree, a second degree or a third degree in any disciplinary, crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or extradisciplinary undertaking in education.
Making of a spy: Weisberg dumped the CIA, went to therapy and now makes incredible television
At a time when most scripted television specialises in moral preening – trafficking in sentimentality, pandering to liberal do-gooderism, leaving us feeling better about ourselves and the world – Weisberg’s shows put you through a merciless psychological and spiritual wringer. They’re willing to leave you floundering
How world’s 13 super-rich men are usurping God with their searing economic, health and political terror
Calling themselves the Good Club, their aim was to “set the agenda for the future of global health,” Bruner wrote. Building on the Club of Rome think tank founded in 1968 by Rockefeller-linked scientists and intellectuals, the Good Club members devised the “Giving Pledge,” an initiative designed to steer billions toward their priority of slowing population growth.
Screen Actors Guild: Provision that okays AI digital replicas and synthetic performers promotes redundancy in film industry
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America, in contrast, overwhelmingly agreed to have their members accept the agreements they hammered out with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
Thanksgiving Day in America: If you like me and do nice things for me, I’ll like you and do nice things for you
In animals and in humans, these aren’t always one-to-one transactions. Sometimes, an ape that gets groomed by another will later back that partner up in a fight, Suchak said, showing that reciprocity might not be about keeping exact scores, but forming broader emotional ties.
Timekeepers no more: Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking evangelism hours
The Governing Body now accepts that even in the final countdown to Armageddon, nonbelievers might still accept the truth and be saved. That reverses a previous understanding that, once an apocalyptic Great Tribulation gets underway, it would be too late.
Pope Francis may have endorsed same-gender unions in response to five conservative cardinals
The five cardinals, all of them conservative prelates from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, had challenged Francis to affirm church teaching on gays, women’s ordination, the authority of the pope and other issues in their letter.
