2,052 search results
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...research and adaptation team. He stressed the importance of participation of the indigenous people and communities that have shared their stories of popular tradition. When asked about the reception of the project, Gabriela shared with us the following: En general, las comunidades con las que nos hemos acercado lo han recibido con emoción, por ver en un video parte de su...
View video Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Video 5 mins
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...research fellows Jamal Hisham Hashim and José Siri write that humanity faces “substantial health risks from the degradation of the natural life support systems which are critical for human survival. It has become increasingly apparent that actions to mitigate environmental change have powerful co-benefits for health.” The author of the paper on heat stress, Tord...
View article Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Article 10 mins
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...Research into conditions within these detention centres has highlighted the poor conditions, with complaints of sexual abuse, fights, and inmates working for extremely low or no wages, and the despair and uncertainty felt by detainees. Even for young refugees whose age is not officially disputed, turning 18 can come as a difficult milestone. The rights they are afforded...
View article Displaced children of our time
Article 10 mins
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...research shows how dramas like Coronation Street can help make sense of abstract political debates, explains Robert Topinka...The study of politics is often the study of war, conflict, terrorism, and statecraft, of the exceptional rather than the everyday. But political identities and ideologies also take shape in the space of ordinary life, in daily routines and banal...
View article How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Article 5 mins
Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...research project, Mobilizing Millions: Engendering Protest Across the Globe. We want to understand why people participate in a march of this scale, at a critical historical juncture in our political landscape. Within weeks of discussion of the first march, there were already “sister” march pages national and internationally. While it is beyond the scope of this post...
View article Why did millions march against Trump?
Article 5 mins
How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...researcher Andreas Harsono has warned. Many governments in the region are already using the fake news phenomenon to label most media criticism as false, opening the way for state regulation of social media. Singapore is now studying the possibility of introducing a law to “force social media companies to remove misleading reports,” says Singapore law and home affairs...
View article How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Article 5 mins
Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...research and development (R&D) and less on capital expenditures. Average capital expenditures (as a percentage of assets) falls in half from 1975 to 2015. In contrast, R&D increases fivefold. Whereas in 1975 the average public corporation spent almost seven times more on capital expenditures than R&D, by 2015 R&D had surpassed capital expenditures. Since firms invested...
View article Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Article 5 mins
Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...research leader and campaigner for clean air at the non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Petcoke has far more sulphur content than coal while natural gas has none. But general service tax (GST), now being rolled out in the country as part of tax reforms, seems to favour petcoke over gas. Thus, while clean natural gas attracts a 30 per cent tax, coal is...
View article Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Article 5 mins