Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Award for Iranian Women’s Rights Protester Highlights Fight Against Declining...
By Leïla Choukroune
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi...
A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work?
Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...
Does Generative AI Generate Jobs?
By Jacques Bughin
The evolution of AI and its quick adoption by organisations has predisposed many workers to the fear of losing their jobs to...
How Sport Became the New Religion – a 200-Year Story of Society’s ‘Great Conversion’
By Hugh MacLeod
“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the...
Google Turns 25: The Search Engine Revolutionised How We Access Information, but Will It...
By Mark Sanderson, Julian Thomas, Kieran Hegarty, and Lisa M. Given
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday....
Why Imprisoning Repeat Shoplifters Rarely Breaks the Cycle of Offending – And What May...
By Frederick Cram
The UK government is taking a harsher approach to tackle criminal activity which is blighting local neighbourhoods. And recently, government ministers have been talking...
Paris Olympics: With 365 Days to Go, Will This Mega-Event Clinch a Sustainability Gold...
By Jannsen Santana
Mega-events such as the Coachella Music Festival, the pilgrimages to Mecca and the World Cup have become increasingly prominent in contemporary times, yet we often neglect to...
Indian Women’s Struggle Against Sexual Violence has had Little Support from the Men in...
By Severyna Magill
Two recent instances of vicious sexual violence against ethnic minority women in the Indian state of Manipur involving gang rape and murder have highlighted...
Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail
By Adrian Furnham
In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it really...
City Liveability Rankings Tell a Biased Story – Our Research in Dhaka Explains Why
By Shreyashi Dasgupta and Annemiek Prins
Like many fast-growing megacities in Asia and Africa, Dhaka, in Bangladesh, is often stigmatised as one of the most unliveable cities...
Chips Everywhere and with Everything
By Elizabeth Stephens
Until recently, Taiwan’s central position in the global supply chain of advanced semiconductors was not seen as an issue. But today, in...
Expanding Gay Sex Pardons to Women Won’t Help Most Prosecuted Lesbians
By Caroline Derry
More than a decade after launching a scheme to disregard and pardon convictions for historic “gay sex” offences, the government has now announced the...
How a 400 Million Year Old Fossil Changes Our Understanding of Mathematical Patterns in...
By Sandy Hetherington and Holly-Anne Turner
If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of...
Are Rich People More Intelligent? Here’s What the Science Says
By Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet
From White Lotus to Succession, there’s high demand for television dramas about the super rich. The characters on these shows are typically...
Plastic Recycling Is Failing – Here’s How the World Must Respond
By Cressida, Keiron and Stephanie
Recycling was once considered the obvious solution to the excessive amount of new (or virgin) plastic produced each year. This...
How A Weaponized Dollar Is Internationalizing the Yuan
By Dan Steinbock
The multipolarization of the global reserve currency system is accelerating. Ironically, Western sanctions against Russia have intensified the move away from the...
We Need to Discuss What Jobs Robots Should Do, Before the Decision Is Made...
By Thusha Rajendran
The social separation imposed by the pandemic led us to rely on technology to an extent we might never have imagined –...
Jacinda Ardern Says Goodbye to Parliament: How Her Politics of Kindness Fell on Unkind...
By Grant Duncan
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as prime minister in January was a courageous and pragmatic decision for herself, her family and her party. Although many said...
NFT: Beyond the Hype, There is the Future
By Terence Tse, Andrea Maria Cosentino and Mark Esposito
Non-fungible tokens – much has been said and written about them, but what is the truth?...
Thinking of Breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the Right Way to do it
By Daniel Angus and Timothy Graham
After a few chaotic weeks it’s clear Elon Musk is intent on taking Twitter in a direction that’s at odds with...
The Future of Flight in a Net-Zero-Carbon World: 9 Scenarios, Lots of Sustainable Biofuel
By Candelaria Bergero and Steve Davis
Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. It’s an ambitious goal that will require...
Global Economy 2023: How Governments Could Make the Energy Crisis Worse This Year
By Adi Imsirovic
This is the second instalment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023, which started with this article on global...
World Cup 2022: Who Won the Prize for ‘Soft Power’?
By Simon Chadwick and Paul Widdop
After four weeks, 64 games and more than a decade of controversy, Argentina has won the Fifa men’s World Cup in Qatar....
Five Options for Restoring Global Biodiversity After the UN Agreement
By Henrik Svedäng
To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada,...
Online Safety: What Young People Really Think About Social Media, Big Tech Regulation and...
By Emily Setty
Don’t say ‘just don’t go online’ because adults wouldn’t do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed...
Geo-Tracking Apps: How Are Parent-Child Relations Bearing Up?
By Yann Bruna
Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple’s FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring. But...
Global Population Hits 8 Billion, but Per-Capita Consumption Is Still the Main Problem
By Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Paul Sutton, Robert Costanza
The world population has just hit a new record: 8 billion. As is often the case, there...
Psychological Effects of the Pandemic on Women
By Lea Laue and Michael Palocz-Andresen
Measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic largely brought public life to a standstill from mid-March 2020 around the world....
The Power of Big Tech Platforms Has Gone Too Far
By Andreas Kornelakis
The shift in the regulatory context globally compels tech giants to become more responsible
There is a global shift in policies to curb...
Working in the Metaverse: What Virtual Office Life Could Look Like
By Sam Gilbert
In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many...
Ukraine Recap: Russia Targets Civilians as the World Argues about How to End the...
By Jonathan Este
Ever since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops across the border into Ukraine, the role of the UN as global problem solver has...
Regulating Content Won’t Make the Internet Safer – We Have to Change the Business...
By Julia Hörnle
An upheaval of the law governing what can be published online is taking place in the shape of the online safety bill. The bill,...
Transforming to Hybrid Work: The Importance of Cloud-Based Solutions
By David De Cremer
With the arrival of the pandemic, a new way of working also arrived: working remotely. Companies were forced to keep their...
What The War In Ukraine Means For Business
By Paul Bracken
The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence
By Dan Prud'homme
We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
Adapting In An Ever-Changing Business World: When Culture Meets Biology To Survive
By David De Cremer
The world today is changing all the time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were reminded that events and...
The Despair of American Youths under an Overly ‘Critical Society’
By Chan Kung
A recent tragic incident in the United States has stunned the world. This incident, is not merely “domestic terrorism”, but its root...
Inflation: The Supermarket Business Model is too Fragile to Shield Customers from Rising Food...
By Lisa Jack
Food prices, like almost everything else, are rising fast. There have recently been warnings of “apocalyptic” costs, and a declaration that the “era...
Ukraine War: Evidence of Atrocities in Kyiv’s Suburbs Strengthens Case for a Harder Line...
By Dr Anastasiia Kudlenko
When Ukraine learned on April 2 that the whole Kyiv region had been liberated from Russian troops, there was barely any...
Ukraine War: What Are The Risks That Russia Will Turn To Its Nuclear Arsenal?
By Mark Webber and Nicole Fasola
Is Russia now led by someone who would contemplate using nuclear weapons without any great concern? Over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin...
Admiring Your Enemy to Lead Your Company to Victory
By David De Cremer
An often heard comment in the business world is that companies over-appreciate cognitive skills and as a result, their functioning is...
British Imperialism, Religion, and the Politics of ‘Divide and Rule’ in the Indian-Subcontinent
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Recently India’s Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi again brought the issues of India’s partition and tried to blame it on...
REVIVALISTICS: Why Should We Invest Time and Money in Reclaiming ‘Dead’ Languages?
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
This article introduces revivalistics, the new science behind language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. It explores the various benefits of language revival.
Revivalistics
Revivalistics...
The Metaverse: Three Legal Issues We Need to Address
By Pin Lean Lau
The “metaverse” seems to be the latest buzzword in tech. In general terms, the metaverse can be viewed as a form...
How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities
By Natalie Spievack and Cameron Okeke
Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities...
Turning Back Migrant Boats: What Does the International Law of the Sea Say?
By Hayley Roberts
The Home Office has unveiled plans to use “turnback” tactics in the English Channel, with the border force compelling small boats carrying migrants to...
Here are Some of the Political Events that Will Dominate Headlines in 2022
By Thomas Klassen
Last year started out hopeful with the emergence of COVID-19 vaccines, but quickly proved to be a challenging year for governments and...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Carbon-Free Transportation Saves Money
By Dr. Daniel Sperling
President Biden and the European Union are proposing to spend trillions of dollars to decarbonize our economy – with a special...
How to Help Artists and Cultural Industries Recover from the COVID-19 Disaster
By Louis-Etienne Dubois, David Gauntlett, and Ramona Pringle
To say that 2020 has been rough for the cultural and creative industries is an understatement. More...
Asian Pop Culture May be Trending, But so is Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination
By Katherine Lee
From K-beauty to K-pop, Squid Game and Shang Chi, Asian pop culture is trending worldwide.
Nancy Wang Yuen, a sociologist and author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors...
Two Hundred Years Of Talking About Climate Change
By Joseph Mazur
Back in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student at MIT, there were a few weeks of cafeteria conversations among earth...
Requiem for the Post-9/11 Wars, and those to Come
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For days, international media have been promoting the 20-year anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. That day, I...
The US withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war: 4 questions about this...
By Mark R. Jacobson
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, served in Afghanistan as a reserve officer...
The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete...
By Dr. Michelle O’Shea, Dr. Daryl Adair, Hazel Maxwell, and Dr. Megan Stronach
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from...
Tokyo Olympics: no spectators is bad for business, but hosting could still bring long-term...
By Mike Duigan
Japanese Olympics minister Tamayo Marukawa has confirmed that, due to COVID, no spectators will be allowed to attend Tokyo 2020. This comes after initial announcements in...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Every generation wants to improve on the previous generation; however, this generation risks...
How Cryptocurrency Can Help Non-profits and Investors Thrive in the ‘New Normal’
By Thomas Cauley
A decade ago nonprofit leaders were talking about the ways donors could change the world through social media. Today we’re talking about cryptocurrency.
The...
COVID-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a...
By Ian Goldin
Despite the tragic deaths, suffering and sadness that it has caused, the pandemic could go down in history as the event that rescued...
As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt
By Katharine M. Donato, Amanda Carrico, and Jonathan M. Gilligan
Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise...
Nigeria’s Twitter ban could backfire, hurting the economy and democracy
By Jeff Conroy-Krutz
Nigeria’s decision to suspend Twitter indefinitely could backfire for the government and cost the country economically in terms of new investments into...
What moments of uncertainty mean for war – and peace – between global rivals
By Douglas B. Atkinson
The coronavirus pandemic has inflamed existing tensions between China and the US. China blamed the US for spreading the virus across international...
Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
By Dr Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
Ethiopia’s blockchain deal is a watershed moment – for the technology, and for Africa
By Iwa Salami
At the launch of bitcoin in 2009 the size of the potential of the underlying technology, the blockchain, was not fully appreciated.
What has not...
Is this the end of trickle-down economics?
By Graham Vanbergen
The global pandemic has changed everything, highlighting the failures of economic policy that has dominated the Western world for the last 50...
Happiness Is A Place Between Too Little And Too Much
By Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen
School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”. Alongside Sweden; Finland is one of...
Flawed human information processing, magic pipers and our conscience
By Bernard Yeung
Fierce competition between dominant countries leads to accusatory narratives, creating intense but dysfunctional crowd emotions. Flawed human behaviour allows a big gap...
Are Inflation Alarm Bells Ringing True?
By Graham Vanbergen
There are numerous reports in the US, EU and UK about the spectre of rising inflation, with world renowned economists disagreeing...
Bitcoin: why a Wave of Huge Companies like Tesla Rushing to Invest could Derail...
By Gavin Brown
After Tesla announced it has invested US$1.5 billion in bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment for its electric vehicles...
Vaccine Nationalism Is a Multilateral, Neocolonial Failure
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In the coming months, vaccine nationalism is likely to compound COVID-19 economic damage and penalize more lives. It reflects the utter...
Myanmar: memes and mantras of a new generation of democracy protesters
By Richard Dolan
What do the internet memes Doge and Cheems, the Hollywood film franchise The Hunger Games, and a sachet of instant tea have in common? They...
ICC debacles – and the Philippines
By Dr Dan Steinbock
After the Philippine withdrawal from the ICC, the battlelines against the Duterte government are politicized – and messy.
In the first half...
Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated
By Dr Iwa Salami
As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, Bitcoin has seen a steady rise in its price. The...
Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive
By Daniel McNeil
Over the past few months, I’ve been editing a book about soulful beliefs, practices and feelings that overflow from their religious and...
The Dark Forces behind American Insurrectionists
By Dr Dan Steinbock
On January 6, 2021, a mob of white supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol, presumably to overturn Trump's defeat. Their final goal...
Make Drones Sound Less Annoying by Factoring in Humans at the Design Stage
By Dr Antonio J Torija Martinez
These days almost everyone has either flown a drone or listened to the nasty whining sound they produce. Although...
The Most Comprehensive Predictions Guide to 2021
By Graham Vanbergen
The year 2020 will inevitably be etched into our memories no matter how forgettable we want it to be. It was a...
How to cook Christmas dinner in the most environmentally friendly way possible
By Dr Ximena Schmidt, Dr Christian Reynolds and Sarah Bridle
By now, most of us are aware that much of the food we eat, in...
Why Another Lockdown Might be Needed in February 2021
By Dr Peter Sivey and Dr James Gaughan
England recently emerged from a four-week lockdown into a series of tiered restrictions, and there is good...
How Green is your Christmas Tree?
By Professor Ian D. Rotherham
There’s no way around the fact that Christmas has a large carbon footprint, from the travelling we do to the presents...
3 Reasons for Information Exhaustion – and What to Do About It
By Mark Satta
An endless flow of information is coming at us constantly: It might be an article a friend shared on Facebook with a...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
Pandemic Debt and the Battle over MMT
By Graham Vanbergen
Some governments around the world are making a strategic economic gamble to solve the problem of managing unsustainable debt. In a world...
COVID-19 Vaccines are Coming – How will we Know they Work and are Safe?
By Adam Kleczkowski
Pfizer and BioNTech have just released interim results of their COVID-19 vaccine trial. Although it is not the only vaccine in the late stages of...
As the World Watches US Election, the Appeal of America is Diminished
By Liam Kennedy
A US presidential election always draws intense worldwide interest, in part due to the spectacle, but also because the leadership of the...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina
To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships
1. Change> Transform Your Approach to Transformation
This technical note explores some...
The Rise of the Chinese Economy and Growing Concerns in the United States
By Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
The article discusses recent global economic changes and will largely focus on two of the worlds’ largest economies, namely China and...
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme...
By Susanne Jaspars
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the...
Coronavirus culture: the questions social scientists are asking about our new day-to-day life
By Alan Bradshaw
Scientific analysis of COVID-19 is dominated by medical and pharmaceutical questions of vaccines and risk minimisation. But meanwhile, social scientists must track the emerging social...
The New Global COVID-19 Threat: Misguided Policies, Virulent Strains, New Waves, and Lost Years
By Dan Steinbock
As the COVID-19 epicenter has moved from the Americas to India and poorer economies and G20 countries remain severely affected, the...
Technology to Fracture Global Trade and Relations
By Graham Vanbergen
The article "Data Overtakes Oil as Leading (Geopolitical) Global Commodity" published three years ago became the subject of much debate and deliberation....
Venezuela – A Tribute for Her Endless Pursuit of Democracy
By Peter Koenig
Venezuela is again the shining light of Democracy – pushing ahead with the 6 December 2020 National Assembly (NA) elections – despite...
9 reasons you can be optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be widely...
By William Petri
As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021.
I...
Who is Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for vice president?
By Bryan Cranston
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to...
How the shadow of slavery still hangs over global finance
By Philip Roscoe
When the infamous Zong trial began in 1783, it laid bare the toxic relationship between finance and slavery. It was an unusual and distressing...
Belarus – A Color Revolution of a Different Shade?
By Peter Koenig
Belarus in turmoil, after an election where the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko – 25 years already in power (in office since 1994)...
The Structural Changes in a Post-Pandemic Global Finance
By Chan Kung and Wei Hongxu
In many ways, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the world. Under the presence of increased global trade...
Conspiracy Theory – What Is It?
By Peter Koenig
Being blamed for disseminating “conspiracy theories” and therefore being a conspiracy theorist, is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true...
Approaching Global Shock Waves
By Graham Vanbergen
The Covid-19 pandemic has reached every one of us and is a history-defining moment. It will act as a brake on unsustainable...
The Challenges and Importance of Institutions Building in the Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
There has been on-going debate about the utility of the ‘free market’ system versus ‘government intervention’ in promoting development policies and...
