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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...