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The search for a balance in meeting human needs within the limits of the environment is a perennial challenge in the history of humanity. (Shutterstock)

Is it possible to measure sustainable development?

Patrick Faubert, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Claude Villeneuve, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), and David Tremblay, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

Is it possible to measure sustainable development? Can we go beyond merely embracing virtuous principles and put the concept into use?
Artwork in the Djourab desert, Chad, gives a taste of how our oldest ancestors got around. Sabine Riffaut, Guillaume Daver, Franck Guy / Palevoprim / CNRS – Université de Poitiers / MPFT

Breakthrough shows humans were already standing on their own two feet 7 million years ago

Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Université de Poitiers; Andossa Likius, Université de N'Djamena (Tchad); Clarisse Nekoulnang Djetounako, Université de N'Djamena (Tchad); Franck Guy, Université de Poitiers; Guillaume Daver, Université de Poitiers; Laurent Pallas, Kyoto University; Mackaye Hassane Taisso, Université de N'Djamena (Tchad), and Patrick Vignaud, Université de Poitiers

New research shows our oldest ancestors were able to walk as well as evolve in trees.
Schools are facing accelerated COVID-19 pressures to integrate technology into children’s education, and how they do has far-reaching implications. (Shutterstock)

Machines can’t ‘personalize’ education, only people can

Michael Maser, Simon Fraser University

Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.

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  4. Educational technology
  5. Fossils
  6. Human morality
  7. Prehistory
  8. Public engagement
  9. Technology ethics

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