During the 2016 American presidential election, how people identified themselves played a major part in determining which candidate they voted for. Now, with people so entrenched in their political identities, women are finding conversations about the nation's government stressful.

People are nervous about emerging technologies, yet 63% of people don’t realise they already using AI every day. Canvas8 spoke with Alex Salkever, co-author ofThe Driver in the Driverless Carand VP of communications at Mozilla, to understand how we can rethink AI's presence in our lives.

The looming threat of climate change and the after-effects of natural disasters have borne a new-found mental health condition called ‘ecoanxiety’, which is increasingly taking its toll on people's psychological states as the effects of a warming planet are realised.

If Faisal Islam, Ralph Keyes and theNew York Timesare to be believed, the Trump candidacy and the vote for Brexit show we've entered a post-truth era – a world where emotion and populism win out over facts and experts. But is it true? And do emotional appeals really trump facts and figures?