Tag: Global Perspectives
You can’t characterize human nature if studies overlook 85 percent of...
Daniel Hruschka, Arizona State University
Over the last century, behavioral researchers have revealed the biases and prejudices that shape how people see the world and...
Three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women’s fashion
Liz Bucar, Northeastern University
Major art museums have realized there is much to learn from clothing that is both religiously coded and fashion forward.
Earlier this...
How to deal with the next financial crisis – take some...
Iosif Kovras, City, University of London
It has been ten years since the global recession hit – and the perfect opportunity to rethink and reassess...
2018 Nobel Prize for physics goes to tools made from light...
Todd Adams, Florida State University
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Turkey’s currency collapse shows just how vulnerable its economy is to...
Can Erbil, Boston College and Umit Ozlale, Özyeğin University
If you happen to be a tourist in Turkey right now, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, things...
Genoa bridge collapse: maintaining these structures is a constant battle against...
Marios Chryssanthopoulos, University of Surrey
As rescue workers look for survivors in the concrete rubble that used to be part of the Morandi bridge in...
Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there...
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Once again, the summer of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere has brought us an epidemic of major...
Apple’s $1 trillion value doesn’t mean it’s the ‘biggest’ company
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest...
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...
