DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
When? May 6, 2021 Where? Online What about? Digital Transformation Introduction by Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the USKyriakos Pierrakakis,...
Year: 2021
Why this trial was different: Experts react to guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin
Alexis KarteronAssociate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark Scholars analyze the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek...
CBD, marijuana and hemp: What is the difference among these cannabis products, and which are legal?
Brandon McFaddenAssistant Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of DelawareNew York recently became the 15th U.S. state to legalize cannabis...
BODY LANGUAGE: IS WHEN YOUR BODY BETRAYS WHAT YOU’RE SAYING
by Ruthie DiTucci . There is nothing more telling than a bad poker player that fiddles with his nose when...
4 weird things that happen when you videoconference
Norm FriesenProfessor of Educational Technology, Boise State University As the COVID-19 pandemic forces many U.S. colleges and universities to move their...
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person’s own moral misgivings about sex
Joshua B. GrubbsAssistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State UniversityA 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different...
OUR PLANET OUR FUTURE: Nobel Prize Summit April 26-28, 2021
The Academic Science Sessions will be streamed live at 14:30-16:30 EDT 27 April and 14:00-16:00 EDT 28 April. They are...
The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality
Jennifer McClearenAssistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin The mixed martial arts pay-per-view event UFC 261 features two bouts...
BERNIE MADOFF, PONZI KING: DEAD
By Ruthie DiTucci Scott Cohn, a CNBC reporter and American Greed executive producer Chuck Schaeffer went “behind bars” to look...
Polyamorous relationships under severe strain during the pandemic
Riki ThompsonAssociate Professor, Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington A few years ago I started conducting interviews with over...
Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG file?
Aaron HertzmannAffiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington As an academic researcher, developer of artistic technology and amateur artist, I...
Blockchain could play an important role in future agriculture and food security
Written by Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Carling Bieg, Evan Fraser, Sarah MarquisGlobal food supply chains proved brittle during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading...
How nonfungible tokens work and where they get their value – a cryptocurrency expert explains NFTs
By Dragan BoscovicResearch Professor of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University NFTs have already made significant inroads...
Prince Philip dies: old-school European aristocrat and dedicated royal consort
By Sean LangSenior lecturer in History at the Anglia Ruskin UniversityThe death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh marks...
10 YEARS OF INNOCENT IMPRISONMENT
By Thomas Hackl Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks and has apparently served almost ten years of innocent arrest....
AUSTRALIA TOSSES CRIMINALS
Since the closure of the international border in March 2020 and the significantly reduced capacity of commercial flights, the Australian...
FINLAND’S HOUSING FIRST PROGRAM
Article provided by Scoop.me... In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the...