By Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
The agreement could mark a turning point for public policies on social media precisely because it addresses the architecture of the platforms themselves.
(Full Story)
|
By J.C. Bradbury, Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University
Research has repeatedly found that stadiums generate little economic benefit, while subsidy referendums often fail when put before voters. Yet team owners continue to receive billions in tax dollars.
(Full Story)
|
By Kevin B. Johnson, Professor of Pediatrics, Biomedical Informatics and Science Communication, University of Pennsylvania
The case against social media has gotten so well rehearsed that most people can easily merge it into ordinary conversation: It makes people lonely. It sorts them into camps. It hands them a room full of people who already agree with them and calls that a community.
I’ve given this speech myself, with feeling, having read my phone notifications in the host’s powder room 11 minutes earlier.
I am a pediatrician, health communicator and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania,…
(Full Story)
|
By Francine Berman, Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Honorary Research Professor, UMass Amherst
What do the water system in Flint, Michigan, the electrical grid in Puerto Rico and your search engine have in common? They are all critical infrastructure – systems essential to everyday life.
People expect critical infrastructure to be reliable, to minimize risk and to promote public well-being. When it fails – such as when lead seepage poisoned Flint’s water supply in 2014, or when nearly all of Puerto…
(Full Story)
|
By Kaylee Marrero, Ph.D. Student and Transdisiplinary Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences Fellow, Florida International University
Matthew DeGennaro, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
If you’ve ever had to prepare a meal for a picky eater, you know it’s not easy. They may not like certain flavors or textures, and there are often foods you have to avoid altogether.
And it turns out, humans aren’t the only species with picky eaters – mosquitoes can also be finicky.
We are biology researchers who study mosquito behavior, and we recently discovered that mosquitoes…
(Full Story)
|
By Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, University of Iowa
Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.
(Full Story)
|
By Jean Lantz Reisz, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, 1.3 million individuals from 17 countries were living and working in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
TPS is a humanitarian form of protection from deportation for people who cannot return to their home countries because of an armed conflict, environmental disaster or other extraordinary circumstances.
…
(Full Story)
|
By Tito Boeri, Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
Giacomo Anastasia, PhD Candidate in Economics, Columbia University
Oleksandr Zholud, Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Expert in Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis, Kyiv School of Economics
The war has made it more difficult for firms in Ukraine to find workers and for job seekers to find work – but the impact has not been catastrophic.
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladić in the courtroom in The Hague, Netherlands, June 8, 2021. © 2021 Jerry Lampen/AP Photo Survivors’ groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina have condemned the announcement that the Serbian government plans to bury the convicted genocidaire Ratko Mladić with “highest military and state honors.” Mladić, the Bosnian Serb army chief during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s, died on August 27 in custody in The Hague following his 2017 conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)…
(Full Story)
|
By Amanda Keddie, Professor of Education, Deakin University
Nationals leader Matt Canavan says boys are ‘sick and tired of the feminisation’ of Australia’s curriculum. An education professor explains how it works.
(Full Story)
|