Archive for June 2024

One of the other watchwords of the protest was “scholasticide” — the destruction of education and knowledge. This is obviously a huge problem right now in Gaza, where schools and universities are being obliterated by the Israeli state, and students and teachers are being killed day after day. Some of the most eloquent speakers at the protest connected, with minimal hyperbole or rhetoric, that destruction to what’s happening in New York City public schools and universities, where budget cuts, austerity, and the persecution of pro-Palestine teachers are degrading the state of education in this city.

A research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, German used data from the UN World Population Prospects 2022 report (the most recent year available). Researchers were able to make probabilistic predictions of what the families of the future will look like.

Throughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka portrays the gruelling consequences of overwork on desperate people…. Commemorating 100 years since Kafka’s death, many are revisiting his stories. A focus on how disabled bodies relate to the workplace brings a new appreciation of his fiction, as well as both his professional and personal life.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare will assist in establishing a child welfare research and training center at the University of Namibia (UNAM).

Lawmaker Connie Lam, a registered social worker by profession, asked if the amendment would trigger a “wave of resignations” in the sector. Sun dismissed the concern…. Two veteran social workers earlier described the amendment as “political interference” in the sector’s professional autonomy – a claim which Sun also denied.

MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA approval, safety protocols could render them extremely expensive.