Workplace tensions: How and when bystanders can make a difference
Oct 27, 2023 15:06 pm UTC| Life
In todays climate of global political tensions and polarization, workplaces are filled with conflicting viewpoints. When employees hold political identities and perspectives that do not align with their co-workers, they...
Five witchcraft myths debunked by an expert
Oct 27, 2023 15:04 pm UTC| Life
About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe. They were accused of...
To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
Oct 27, 2023 15:01 pm UTC| Life
Title of course: Alcohol in American Literature What prompted the idea for the course? I got the idea for the course when I was writing a chapter on the temperance movement in American literature for my doctoral...
Oct 27, 2023 15:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Life
In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals. As of 2022, big investment firms owned nearly...
Pumpkin waste: three ways to stop your leftover lantern becoming a Halloween horror story
Oct 27, 2023 14:59 pm UTC| Life
This Halloween, around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins will go to waste in the UK alone. Thats because, of the 30 million purchased each year, about half go entirely uneaten. Thats 27 million worth of edible food. The global...
How the world might look if animals had legal rights
Oct 27, 2023 14:58 pm UTC| Life Law
Lets picture what our societies might look like if animals were granted rights against being killed, made to suffer or exploited for human gain. When activists argue for animal rights, they ask us to imagine a different...
Energy bills: how households could feel the cold this winter
Oct 27, 2023 14:57 pm UTC| Life
As winter starts to bite, you may be starting to worry again about how much you will have to pay for your gas and electricity over the coming months. Of course, energy isnt the only rising cost in the current inflation-led...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects