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When conservationists use war metaphors – as in the battle to halt bird hunting in Malta – they hurt their cause by closing down paths to negotiation.
Financial assets compliant with sharia are growing at a much faster pace than the conventional kind, yet North American banks are still stuck on the sidelines.
Would a reprint of Mein Kampf impact a digital generation reared on “Hi Hitler” spoofs?
Industry is on the front lines of responding to the effects of climate change and forward-looking businesses are trying to shape policy – before more stringent measures are imposed.
Scientists may have consigned fad therapies to the dustbin of pseudoscientific history, but that doesn’t mean the knowledge has filtered to the mainstream.
US colleges are failing to prepare students for life in a competitive, globalized economy.
Star Trek fans were especially drawn to Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock – who showed many that it “was okay to be a nerd, that even in the future not everyone fit in, or needed to.”
The thefts make big headlines but rarely hit the bottom line, creating a moral hazard risk that companies won’t invest enough to beef up their security.
A new ecology study doesn’t focus on how people degrade the environment. Instead, it untangles the way physical factors in a pristine ecosystem drive the biology of what lives there.
Things have deteriorated drastically in recent weeks, but passage of IMF-linked reforms offers hope that Ukraine’s economy will make it through its darkest days.
Ever tweet about being sick? Or look up your symptoms online? Researchers are using this information to monitor illnesses and attitudes about health in real time.
Notre Dame alumna reflects on the extraordinary life, work and the legacy that Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, leaves behind for Catholic institutions.
Not only can they improve public health and decrease treatment costs, but they can also address one of the root causes of addiction: loneliness.
The World Economic Forum’s new list of the Top Ten emerging technologies reminds us that the promise of innovation comes with responsibilities.
Scholars weigh in on the Israeli Prime Minister’s warning that current negotiations are “paving the way” to an Iranian bomb.
A drought in Syria that was exacerbated by climate change helped fuel the unrest that led to the country’s civil war.
If you want a desirable ambassadorship, becoming a Foreign Service Officer and earning the relevant degrees – in other words, accumulating experience – might not be the best plan of action.
A lifetime of study and preparation are no guarantee of success for PhDs when they hit the job market. Things can and should be improved.
It’s important to reconnect management researchers with practitioners so their scholarly work is shared beyond academia.
Meet the indoor shopping mall’s hipper, “New Urbanist” cousin.
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
Over 70% of scientists and engineers in the United States are white, but there are many challenges educators face.
Even when women and minorities earn STEM degrees, they don’t take the next step into gainful employment at the same rates as white men.
Americans have never rated climate change as an urgent political issue, but young voters and other “rising American electorate” groups could change that.