The Conversation's articles BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK FINANCE The Global Financial Markets During The Ukraine Crisis Key Takeaways: It’s two weeks since the world woke up to the dreadful news of a Russian attack to Ukraine. Other peaks correspond to January 26, which was the date of Nato’s written response to the Russians, and the start of the invasion on February 24. According to our calculations from data that dates back […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY Megacities In The Digital Age Key Takeaways: Digitization and crowdsourcing will actually undermine the very foundations of the megacity economy, which is typically built on some combination of manufacturing, commerce, retail and professional services. Shopping malls, for example, which once thrived in megacities, are now suffering from the advent of e-commerce. Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY POLITICS SOCIOLOGY The Meat Paradox Key Takeaways: Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Feeding the world’s appetite for meat costs the lives of billions of animals a year, and animal welfare is a concern on farms worldwide, with pigs, cowsand chickens often subject to overcrowding, open wounds and disease. In what is no doubt […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY How Anna Delvey & The Tinder Swindler Exploit A Core Feature Of Human Nature Key Takeaways: The subject of a new Netflix series, “Inventing Anna,” Sorokin, who told people her name was Anna Delvey, conned over $250,000 out of wealthy acquaintances and high-end Manhattan businesses between 2013 and 2017. What’s fascinating about these studies is that most participants are cynical about ever seeing their money again – let alone […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK Understanding The World Economy In 2022 Will 2022 be the year where the world economy recovers from the pandemic? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips as the festive break comes to an end. One complicating factor is that most of the latest major forecasts were published in the weeks before the omicron variant swept the world. At that time, the mood was […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked ART & DESIGN CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK How Theatre Has Changed Through The Ages Face masks, plexiglass dividers, proof of vaccine and photo IDand strict seating assignments: This might not sound like your ideal night out at the theatre. But as performance venues across the country begin raising the curtain once more, such regulations will likely become part of the “new normal.” While many of these rules may appear unprecedented, COVID-19 protocols […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY How The Pandemic Changed Digital Journalism In the last decade, smartphones and mobile technology have altered newsrooms, transforming news gathering, live broadcasting and content distribution. Trained on an iPhone 4s at the University of Sheffield in 2011, I was one of the first mobile journalists in the UK. Over the course of my career broadcasting live, from war zones in Iraq to tornados […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked ART & DESIGN CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY Life Lessons From Moby Dick As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. 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So are we doomed to be unhappy, despite these advances in psychology? According to an influential article published in Review of General Psychology in 2005, 50% of people’s happiness […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked ART & DESIGN EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY 4 Reasons Why Museums Aren’t Cashing In On NFTs Yet The eye-popping sale price of US$69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets that exist on a blockchain and are maintained on networked computers soon followed. At the same time, art museums have faced substantial financial shortfalls accelerated by a decline […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY What Is The Metaverse & Why It Matters? The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations – or avatars – of themselves. Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and the web. The metaverse is a concept from science fiction that many […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK FINANCE The Global Financial Markets During The Ukraine Crisis Key Takeaways: It’s two weeks since the world woke up to the dreadful news of a Russian attack to Ukraine. Other peaks correspond to January 26, which was the date of Nato’s written response to the Russians, and the start of the invasion on February 24. According to our calculations from data that dates back […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY Megacities In The Digital Age Key Takeaways: Digitization and crowdsourcing will actually undermine the very foundations of the megacity economy, which is typically built on some combination of manufacturing, commerce, retail and professional services. Shopping malls, for example, which once thrived in megacities, are now suffering from the advent of e-commerce. Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY POLITICS SOCIOLOGY The Meat Paradox Key Takeaways: Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Feeding the world’s appetite for meat costs the lives of billions of animals a year, and animal welfare is a concern on farms worldwide, with pigs, cowsand chickens often subject to overcrowding, open wounds and disease. In what is no doubt […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY How Anna Delvey & The Tinder Swindler Exploit A Core Feature Of Human Nature Key Takeaways: The subject of a new Netflix series, “Inventing Anna,” Sorokin, who told people her name was Anna Delvey, conned over $250,000 out of wealthy acquaintances and high-end Manhattan businesses between 2013 and 2017. What’s fascinating about these studies is that most participants are cynical about ever seeing their money again – let alone […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK Understanding The World Economy In 2022 Will 2022 be the year where the world economy recovers from the pandemic? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips as the festive break comes to an end. One complicating factor is that most of the latest major forecasts were published in the weeks before the omicron variant swept the world. At that time, the mood was […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK How Theatre Has Changed Through The Ages Face masks, plexiglass dividers, proof of vaccine and photo IDand strict seating assignments: This might not sound like your ideal night out at the theatre. But as performance venues across the country begin raising the curtain once more, such regulations will likely become part of the “new normal.” While many of these rules may appear unprecedented, COVID-19 protocols […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY How The Pandemic Changed Digital Journalism In the last decade, smartphones and mobile technology have altered newsrooms, transforming news gathering, live broadcasting and content distribution. Trained on an iPhone 4s at the University of Sheffield in 2011, I was one of the first mobile journalists in the UK. Over the course of my career broadcasting live, from war zones in Iraq to tornados […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN CULTURE EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY Life Lessons From Moby Dick As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot of help to be found in the 1800s, from the appreciation of wildness in Henry David Thoreau’s famous “Walden,” to the rise of ecology, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY Are People Lying More Since The Rise Of Social Media & Smart Phones Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie? You might text your friend a white lie to get out of going to dinner, exaggerate your height on a dating profile to appear more attractive or invent an excuse to your boss over email to save face. Social psychologists and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY Why Some People Find It Hard To Be Happy? The self-help industry is booming, fuelled by research on positive psychology – the scientific study of what makes people flourish. At the same time, the rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm continue to soar worldwide. So are we doomed to be unhappy, despite these advances in psychology? According to an influential article published in Review of General Psychology in 2005, 50% of people’s happiness […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY 4 Reasons Why Museums Aren’t Cashing In On NFTs Yet The eye-popping sale price of US$69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets that exist on a blockchain and are maintained on networked computers soon followed. At the same time, art museums have faced substantial financial shortfalls accelerated by a decline […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY What Is The Metaverse & Why It Matters? The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations – or avatars – of themselves. Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and the web. The metaverse is a concept from science fiction that many […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
