No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain.
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Already becoming a darling of Wall Street, blockchain technology’s biggest real benefits could come to the world’s poorest people. Here’s how.
Do school uniforms repress culture and identity?
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By providing a blanket approach to uniform policies, schools risk repressing cultural identity and diversity.
People’s sense of self is partly determined by the groups to which they belong: “I’m a smoker”.
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Cigarette brands present images of slender, stylish women and strong, independent men. Plain packaging breaks this positive brand identity for some smokers.
How you package the information matters.
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Are we in a race against climate change? Or is it a war? How does thinking of the past or the future affect your support for the science? Researchers are learning how metaphors and context matter.
Hanging by a thread?
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Psychologists rank job insecurity as one of the most stressful things about work – new research uncovers why.
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With the number of multiracial Americans growing, there’s a fierce debate in the black community over who’s black – and who isn’t.
Because of years of persecution many Rohingya children have never known Myanmar, which is claimed by the community as their country.
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Rohingya songs and drawings are a form of resistance against the persecutions they face in Myanmar and in Bangladesh.
Unmasking identities online.
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You might think you’re anonymous when you’re browsing the web. But a new study shows that browsing history can often be tied to your real-world identity.
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As the torrent of carefully created social media posts to sites such as Facebook grows, who is to say which is the ‘real’ you.
Place-making: a seasonal beach in Campus Martius Park, Detroit 2014.
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Big ideas and big dollars have been invested in making ‘memorable’ places. Paradoxically, as similar solutions are adapted in diverse settings worldwide, this can lead to an uneasy new placelessness.
Young people can help reshape academic research, bringing new focus to different issues that matter to them.
Ian Homer
Researchers and policy makers alike are missing out on a vital resource – young people themselves.
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Baking offers some interesting insights into the state of the modern world.
Blockchain doesn’t magically make entries on a distributed ledger trustworthy.
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The blockchain just doesn’t do what most people seem to think it does.
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Feelings about the EU come down to a sense of identity and the more you age, the more English you feel.
What does it mean to be an American?
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Just who do we think we are? A social psychologist from Cal Poly Pomona explains why our national identity will define the election, and our future.
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Sure, it’s got a flag and some bank notes – but the EU will need to do better if it’s to compete with its members’ strong, national design heritage.
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Do you see the world as made up of nations? Are you a citizen of a city or a region? These questions could help you on June 23.
Britain has more in common with the people of Europe than politics.
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Music has helped Europeans develop a better understanding of British culture than Brits will ever have of Europe.
A new person?
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A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it’s not clear who the new person would be.
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Dressing like a Black Panther at the Super Bowl was always going to raise a few eyebrows – and that was the point.