#Video: How COVID-19 is affecting support for mail-in voting

“#Video: How COVID-19 is affecting support for mail-in voting” Credit: CC0 Public Domain How will opinions change as cases across the country fluctuate—particularly in states, such as Arizona or Florida, where cases are rising sharply? . That’s the question, says David Lazer, university distinguished professor of political science and computer and information sciences at Northeastern….

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#Running in Tarahumara culture

“#Running in Tarahumara culture” Image showing Rarámuri runners. Credit: Lieberman, Daniel E. “Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture,” just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June 2020): 356-379) studies the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico. For over a century, the Tarahumara have been famous for their long distance running traditions and abilities, with many…

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#Academics call for ‘Five Capitals’ approach to global resilience

“#Academics call for ‘Five Capitals’ approach to global resilience” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Writing in the leading academic journal, Nature, Cranfield academics are calling for global resilience to be shaped around the ‘Five Capitals’—natural, human, social, built and financial. The academics believe that too often silos exist within Government and within organizations and businesses that…

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#We live in an age of ‘fake news,’ but Australian children are not learning enough about media literacy

“#We live in an age of ‘fake news,’ but Australian children are not learning enough about media literacy” Credit: www.shutterstock.com Today we release the findings from our new research into how young Australians consume and think about news media. Following a summer of bushfires and during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have told us they…

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#New research examines links between religion and parental support from non-family members

“#New research examines links between religion and parental support from non-family members” Dr John Shaver, University of Otago Credit: University of Otago “Be fruitful and multiply” says the Bible, and worldwide religious people tend to have more children than their secular counterparts. New research suggests that this “multiplying” may be the result of the higher…

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#Men more likely than women to be seen as brilliant

“#Men more likely than women to be seen as brilliant” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Men are more likely than are women to be seen as “brilliant,” finds a new study measuring global perceptions linked to gender. The work concludes that these stereotyped views are an instance of implicit bias, revealing automatic associations that people cannot,…

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#Co-offenders provide key to crime patterns

“#Co-offenders provide key to crime patterns” Flinders University law Professor David Bright from the Centre of Criminology Research. Credit: Flinders University A large volume of criminal offending involves two or more individuals acting collaboratively—yet detailed analysis of co-offending is lacking to obtain more detailed and accurate pictures of criminal networks and broad crime patterns. Much…

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