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  • 9 Jan 2020
    Christian Borch

    Crowd Behaviour in Financial Markets, from the Hong Kong Protests to Algorithmic Trading

    In late 2019, Hong Kong erupted with unrest sparked by a deeply unpopular bill to allow the extradition of its citizens to mainland China. Since protests began in March, thousands of people have been arrested and hospitalised, the police department faces widespread accusations of brutality, and government approval ratings have fallen to their lowest since […]

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  • 6 Nov 2019
    Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér

    Making sense of sustainability transformations across societies.

    When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the recent Climate Action Summit in New York urged countries to “show the way towards a full transformation of economies in line with sustainable development goals”, this reflected the growing international science and policy attention to the need for fundamental, systemic, non-linear societal transformations to achieve sustainability, in response […]

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  • 30 Oct 2019

    The job of being hospitable in Global India

    The passion to serve! Endowing and praising indigenous youth with the quality of service, with a predisposition to hospitality and care – is it truly appreciation of a culture, its people and a way of life? In global India, marketing soft skills has become synonymous with training indigenous migrants to work in the hospitality industry. The […]

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  • 29 Oct 2019
    Carol Frieze, Jeria L. Quesenberry

    Gender Gaps in Computing: Myth vs Fact

    Authors, Carol Frieze and Jeria L. Quesenberry debunk five common myths on the Gender Gap in Computing

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  • 6 Aug 2019
    Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz

    Who runs the joint? Gangs and social order in prisons

    To most people, life in prison is a mystery. In a new study, we examine many aspects of prison life, with a special focus on the role of gangs. We interviewed 802 inmates in prison in Texas, half of whom were gang members. With 150,000 inmates, Texas is the largest state prison system in the […]

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  • 25 Jul 2019
    George Lawson

    Revolutions in the contemporary world

    There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world – and they are both wrong.  On the one hand, revolutions are everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and Khartoum; in the rhetoric of groups like Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter; and in the potential of new technologies […]

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  • 7 Jun 2019
    William H. Wiist

    Nuclear Weapons: Still a Threat to Public Health, and Growing

    Lead editor and an author of 'Preventing War and Promoting Peace', William H. Wiist, outlines his argument on why nuclear weapons are a growing threat to public health and suggests roles for health professionals in advocating reduction of nuclear weapons.

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  • 2 May 2019
    Susan Stokes, S. Erdem Aytaç

    “Why Bother?”: An Introduction

    Changes in the levels of political participation can alter the course of history. If turnout had been higher among young British voters in the 2016 European Union membership referendum, the United Kingdom might have decided to remain in the EU. If a wave of protests had not taken off in Kiev in the winter of […]

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