By Ivan Savin, Associate Professor of Quantitative Analytics, ESCP Business School
Lewis King, Postdoctoral research fellow in Ecological economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
A new study reveals European public opinion goes against widely-held academic views on economic growth being counter-productive to environmental sustainability.
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By Nieves Fernández Rodríguez, Profesora y coordinadora de la Cátedra de Migraciones y Derechos Humanos, Universidad Nebrija
“Nieves, there’s been an earthquake in Venezuela.” This was how Gabriela, a Venezuelan friend of mine, interrupted our phone conversation when the news came in. She was in Berlin, and as a new mother she had not been sleeping much. Her tiredness quickly evaporated.
Within minutes, the Venezuelan diaspora groups in Colombia that I work with began to fill with messages of anguish and doubt. Thousands of kilometres away, in Madrid, Aleja woke up and read the first headlines on her phone. She thought it was just another tremor, which is not uncommon in Venezuela. But she soon grasped the…
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By Grace Khunou, Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa
The Polygamist is a Netflix series that has soared up the streaming platform’s charts and triggered a global conversation about men who cheat in relationships.
It tracks the fatal ruptures in what seems like a successful upper class family, the Gomoras. Although the story plays out in South Africa, the production is a more…
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By Sally S.J. Brown, Research officer, Leeds Beckett University
Yoga helps with health and wellbeing and is recommended to NHS patients in the UK, but new research shows people who could benefit most find it hardest to access.
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By Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
Britain’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) marks a significant shift in military priorities. Over four years, an additional £15 billion will take spending up to £298 billion overall.
This includes £63 billion to fund nuclear deterrence and £8 billion for future combat aircraft. But its most attention-grabbing headline concerns the maritime domain.
Plans for the Type 83 destroyer to replace ageing Type 45s have been shelved. Instead, at least six Common…
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By John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
A huge amount of money flows into campaigns in the United States. For 20 years, the Supreme Court has been loosening rules for who can contribute and how much. It just loosened the rules again.
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By Samantha Lawler, Associate Professor, Astronomy, University of Regina
Aaron Boley, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Sarah Thiele, Graduate Student, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Skye Heiland, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?
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By R. Grant Gilmore III, Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
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By Michael Bruening, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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By Iqbal Akhtar, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Executive Director of The East-West Foundation, Florida International University
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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