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My Tech #1: "we risk forgetting that sailing route optimisation is just a model"

May 2, 2024 |  Tara Niamh Tošić

Today we meet Felix Oberle, professional sailor and mechanical engineer. This young sailor from Aarau will tell us about sailing route optimization…

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Popular Votes and Algorithms in Switzerland: Intransparent Priorisation of Political Information

March 7, 2024 |  Mykola Makhortykh , Aleksandra Urman , Maryna Sydorova , Hannah Schoch

The influence of AI-driven systems, such as search engines like Google or chatbots like GPT, is well known by now. However, the detailed nature of…

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«Politics and media try to force you to pick a side, it’s black or white, us vs. them»

January 30, 2024 | 

Madeleine Pape is a sociologist of gender at the University of Lausanne. In the interview, she discusses sex as a policy object, the public…

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Focus on victims of sexualised violence: The «KONZIL / COINVITAL» protocol for holistic care and support for victims

January 23, 2024 |  Rahel Schmidt , Jan Isler , Janina Inauen , Leon Guggenheim , Fabienne Odermatt

The Franxini Innovation Hub project «Victims of sexualised violence in focus» aims to systematically improve the care of victims of sexualised…

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What’s the deal with protein?

May 20, 2023 | 

Most people know they should eat enough protein, but might not be able to explain why that is. In the first article of our Future of Protein series,…

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How (and why) biomedical research fails to address diseases of poverty

March 23, 2023 | 

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