By Meghan Moe Beitiks, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Concordia University
Montréal-area performances have seen artists explore our human connections to light and ecological forces, and reflect on grief related to climate change.
(Full Story)
|
By Andras Molnar, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
George Loewenstein, Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
(Full Story)
|
By Chris Boyer, Professor and Department Head, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
Aaron Smith, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee
Eunchun Park, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas
The federal government is injecting millions of dollars into efforts to combat feral hogs – and it’s considering spending even more in the coming years. The problem has grown for decades, but our research has found that a recently revived federal effort offers the potential for bringing the hogs under control.
Feral swine roam in 35 states,…
(Full Story)
|
By Janette Bulkan, Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management; Director of the Oil and Gas Governance Network, University of British Columbia
The MV Barima — an 87-year-old ferry owned and operated by the state of Guyana — recently sank off the country’s coast on its way from the country’s capital of Georgetown to Port Kaituma, a journey of about 18 to 24 hours.
Port Kaituma is a gateway to what’s known as the North West District that borders Venezuela, where outsider…
(Full Story)
|
By Lauren Warner-Treloar, AHRC-Techne PhD Candidate, Art and Design History, Kingston University
Since 2013, Vladimir Putin has argued that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”. It’s an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity, part of an assault that has been ongoing for centuries.
Since the full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia has regularly…
(Full Story)
|
By Kevin J. Munro, Ewing Professor of Audiology, University of Manchester
Adele Goman, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leeds
Gabrielle Saunders, Professor of Audiology, University of Manchester
A new survey of UK adults finds most of us track our health at home, but not everyone is equally likely to benefit.
(Full Story)
|
By Alix Violet Freckelton, Research Fellow - Sun, Stars, and Exoplanets, University of Birmingham
Jodie Foster tearing up a dirt road, yelling stellar coordinates into a walkie-talkie à la the 1997 sci-fi film Contact. Control rooms alive with a cacophony of “enhance that signal”. Real-time discovery. That’s what I pictured when my PhD supervisor told me I’d be going observing at a telescope.
Cut to 2am on top of a mountain in La Palma last April, at an altitude that makes you forget you’re in the Canary Islands. It was utterly freezing, and I had dressed for the sunny archipelago in thin layers. I almost dropped my mug trying to close the telescope…
(Full Story)
|
By Vera Trappmann, Professor in Comparative Employment Relations, University of Leeds
Andrea Taylor, Associate Professor in Risk Communication, University of Leeds
Kexin Geng, Research Fellow, School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, University of Leeds
Climate change leading to extreme weather events is making life uncomfortable for many UK workers. A new survey reveals the depth of the problem.
(Full Story)
|
By Omid Memarian
“In an age when images of war circulate constantly without producing understanding or action, I am interested in the screen that makes you stop.”
(Full Story)
|
By Caroline Fisher, Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication, University of Canberra
Sora Park, Director, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
While setting up new revenue streams for struggling newsrooms is a welcome move, the laws themselves are far from perfect.
(Full Story)
|