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17-Jun-2025

Doctoral dissertation: The literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries reveal resistance to social norms and constraints

Estonian Research Council
Reports and Proceedings

Kristjan Haljak, who defended his doctoral thesis at the Tallinn University’s School of Humanities, argued that both the Estonian writer Jaan Oks and the French writer Comte de Lautréamont share a revolutionary and rebellious approach to creativity, as well as a struggle for the radical freedom of both body and soul.

17-Jun-2025

Doctoral thesis: Disabled people are still seen as ‘the other’ in contemporary Russian culture

Estonian Research Council
Reports and Proceedings

The cultural space is a reflection of societal values. Alina Poklad, a PhD candidate at Tallinn University's School of Humanities, researched how people with disabilities are portrayed in contemporary Russian culture and how this is reflected in public discourse.

17-Jun-2025

Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members have unearthed 693 stone artefacts dating from the last Ice Age to the recent past. Found in an ancient Blue Mountains cave known as Dargan Shelter, this new evidence provides definitive proof of repeated occupation in this once frozen, high-altitude landscape. The research, funded by the Australian Museum Foundation, is published in Nature Human Behaviour today.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour
Funder: Declaration: This research was funded by the Australian Museum Foundation. The authors declare no competing interests. Open access funding provided by the University of Sydney.

17-Jun-2025

Disconnected from math, students call for real-world relevance in RAND’s first-ever youth survey

RAND Corporation
Reports and Proceedings

According to the first-ever survey fielded to RAND’s new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high school grades reported losing interest in math about half or more of the time, and 75% of youths reported losing interest for at least some class time.

16-Jun-2025

Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change, new book warns

University of Cambridge
Book Announcement

To save democracy and solve the world's biggest challenges, we need to get better at spotting and exposing people who exploit human cooperation for personal gain, argues Cambridge social scientist Dr Jonathan Goodman.

16-Jun-2025

Train teachers on how to get parents involved in children’s learning, say researchers

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over half of primary and secondary school teachers in England have not been trained in how to support parents’ involvement in children’s learning and education at home and at school.

Journal: Educational Review
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

16-Jun-2025

In search of a way to improve humans’ faulty memories and bad habits

University of California - Berkeley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Evidence-based psychological treatments, which include various forms of counseling, trauma interventions and cognitive behavioral therapy, are rooted in science and used widely to treat an array of mental health challenges. But as UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Allison Harvey describes in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy, these treatments often fall short because of humans’ flawed memories and difficulties creating new, healthier habits. Her research explores how subtle treatment changes could significantly improve patient outcomes — both mentally and physically.

Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy