Tag: Amazon
Five ways Black Friday shopping will be different in 2020
Amna Khan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday November 27 marks a key date in the UK’s retail calendar as consumers head online to take advantage of...
People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the...
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor...
Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of...
Joshua T. Beck, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Companies and CEOs are increasingly wading into...
Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting...
Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University; Austin Wadle, Duke University, and Jasmine Parham, Duke University
Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones....
What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job...
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Washington state’s big bet on ‘free college’
William Zumeta, University of Washington
Washington state doesn’t have a problem finding educated people to work in its booming high-tech economy – it’s just most...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
