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the pros and cons of insurance companies embracing artificial intelligence

  • Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & SocioTechnical Studies, Griffith University
the pros and cons of insurance companies embracing artificial intelligenceThe enabling technology for insurers to use AI is the 'ecosystem' of sensors known as the internet of things.Shutterstock

It’s a new day not very far in the future. You wake up; your wristwatch has recorded how long you’ve slept, and monitored your heartbeat and breathing. You drive to work; car sensors track your speed and braking. You...

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Adolescence can be awkward. Here's how parents can help their child make and maintain good friendships

  • Written by: Michael Chambers, Lecturer, School of Education (Qld), Australian Catholic University
Adolescence can be awkward. Here's how parents can help their child make and maintain good friendshipsParental role-modelling, encouragement and seeking support from the school can help make the awkward bits of making friends as a teen easier.www.shutterstock.com

Secondary school can be a lonely place for adolescents who don’t have a best friend or a group of trusted friends. Young people will be more skilled in the art of making genuine...

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Here's why doctors are backing pill testing at music festivals across Australia

  • Written by: Martyn Lloyd Jones, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Here's why doctors are backing pill testing at music festivals across AustraliaPill testing is a rare opportunity to speak to drug users about their drug use. from www.shutterstock.com

For many years experts in the field of drug policy in Australia have known existing policies are failing. Crude messages (calls for total abstinence: “just say no to drugs”) and even cruder enforcement strategies (harsher penalties,...

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why ethical eating often stops at the restaurant door

  • Written by: Rachel A. Ankeny, Professor of History and Associate Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
why ethical eating often stops at the restaurant doorCan eating steak in a restaurant (or reindeer tongue, for that matter) ever be considered an ethical form of eating? It depends who you ask.Shutterstock

This article is part of a series focusing on the politics of food – what we eat, how our views of food are changing and why it matters from a cultural and political standpoint.


Nowadays,...

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