Plus: International students add $40 billion to the US economy, a new study says.
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China-Gulf ▪ AI ads ▪ Free speech
Plus: The Mexican government formalized the creation of a university of indigenous languages.
Record high ▪ Ads and SEO ▪ The Humanities
Plus: Most users have FOMO and say they would leave social media if their friends did too.
Climate anxiety ▪ Hallucinations ▪ Substack
Plus: Political rivalry between the West and China is complicating international education.
THE ranking ▪ Google’s revenue ▪ ChatGPT
Plus: Local government decrees up to 85% discount for Latin American students at public universities in Madrid.
150,000 hours ▪ Nobel disease ▪ $400
Plus: Higher education and international student recruitment may be affected by the rise of nationalist governments.
Indigenous ▪ TikTok ▪ Vaccination
Plus: Global ad spending could reach $1 trillion for the first time in 2023, according to WARC.
Cold War ▪ Diversity Factor ▪ Polarization
Plus: US and UK universities educated senior leaders of 1/4 of the world’s countries
Wikipedia ▪ Enslavement ▪ 11.5 billion hours
Plus: The United Nations demands an increase in global spending on education and science
Affirmative action ▪ Microcredentials ▪ Zzzuckerberg
Plus: Douglas Hofstadter reflects on what ChatGPT (wrongly) suggests was his motivation to write “Gödel, Escher, Bach”.