Tag: lifeandnews
From 60s counterculture to big business: the politics of festivals
By Roxanne Yeganegy, Leeds Beckett University
Today, British music festivals are big business. So you’d be forgiven for assuming that they’d morphed into mere simulations...
Why companies have little incentive to invest in cybersecurity
By Benjamin Dean, Columbia University
Editor’s note: US President Barack Obama is seeking US$14 billion to tackle it. The UK wants to build a start-up...
Metabolomics: wine and cheese, curing disease … no doping please
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute and Rae-Anne Hardie, Garvan Institute
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research.
A series...
Pi Day is silly, but π itself is fascinating and universal
By Daniel Ullman, George Washington University
Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi...
Dunkin’ Donuts ditches titanium dioxide – but is it actually harmful?
By Andrew Maynard, University of Michigan
In response to pressure from the advocacy group As You Sow, Dunkin’ Brands has announced that it will be...
Surviving street prostitution: two new films on harrowing realities for women...
By Karen Boyle, University of Stirling
Fresh from its success at Sundance, where the British filmmaker Kim Longinotto picked up the World Cinema Documentary Directing...
The compound behind all those stories about red wine being good...
By Mohit Kumar Jolly, Rice University
If you’re a teetotaller, your friends have likely tried to convince you to taste red wine by swearing on...
This simple proposal could reduce risk taking at big banks
By Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford
It has long been a goal of investors and corporate governance experts to make sure our business leaders aren’t...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
