Transdisciplinarity: Integrating certified and non-certified experts, stakeholders and practitioners in one spectrum of thinking and action

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.

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Making of a spy: Weisberg dumped the CIA, went to therapy and now makes incredible television

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

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How world’s 13 super-rich men are usurping God with their searing economic, health and political terror

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.

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Screen Actors Guild: Provision that okays AI digital replicas and synthetic performers promotes redundancy in film industry

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).

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Thanksgiving Day in America: If you like me and do nice things for me, I’ll like you and do nice things for you

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.

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Timekeepers no more: Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking evangelism hours

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.

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Pope Francis may have endorsed same-gender unions in response to five conservative cardinals

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.

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Comedian Russell Brand denies he sexually assaulted women as reported in UK news outlets

Comedian Russell Brand denies he sexually assaulted women as reported in UK news outlets

Brand also suggested that the reports were part of a coordinated attack designed to discredit him because of his views. Brand has been criticised for expressing scepticism about Covid-19 vaccines and interviewing contentious podcasters like Joe Rogan.

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Rap icon Tupac Shakur murder: Las Vegas homicide detectives circle Compton Crip gang leader

Rap icon Tupac Shakur murder: Las Vegas homicide detectives circle Compton Crip gang leader

Keefe claimed in his memoir Tupac appeared to be reaching for a weapon before the execution, but his side fired first, essentially killing the rapper.

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It’s now official: Taylor Swift has more No.1 albums than any woman in history

It’s now official: Taylor Swift has more No.1 albums than any woman in history

Previously, Barbra Streisand held the record, with 11 No.1 albums. Swift ties Drake’s record of 12 No. 1 records, but sits just behind Jay-Z, who has 14 No.1 albums to his name and the Beatles, who have 19.

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