Tag Archives: Creative Commons

07Jul/23

How holidaying in developing countries affects local inequality

July 7, 2023TravelAlex, Alexander Tziamalis, Barbados, Creative Commons, Distribution of wealth, Dominican Republic, Economic growth, Economic inequality, Effects of economic inequality, Egalitarianism, Gross domestic product, Income distribution, Income inequality in the United States, India, Poverty, Redistribution of income and wealth, Tanzania, Tourism, United Kingdom, United States, Yuan Wangadmin

A few years ago, one of us (Alex) went for a vacation to the Dominican Republic. The motivation was similar to millions of other tourists every year: escape the daily routine, enjoy the sun and beaches, and gather some strength to face another cold winter.

Unfortunately, a few things weren’t very conducive to a happy break. The staff at the mammoth hotel were making as little as US$1 (£0.79) for a 12-hour shift. Worse, most of them lived in a shanty town nearby. They had no sewers and no reliable electricity.

The hotel also exploited its power over local farmers to procure food exceedingly cheaply. Schools were overcrowded and many children dropped out to work in businesses like these hotels and farms, perpetuating the cycle.

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30Jun/23

I’m one of the UK’s official climate change advisers – our new report says the country is no longer a world leader

June 30, 2023EnvironmentCarbon neutrality, China, Climate change, Climate Change Committee, Climate change in the United Kingdom, Climate change policy, Creative Commons, Deben, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Glasgow, Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey, Joe Dunckley, John Gummer, Kevin Shipp, Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero, Piers Forster, SHUTTERSTOCK, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

Piers Forster, University of Leeds

The UK’s Climate Change Committee – the official independent advisory body of which I am interim chair – has spent the past three months poring over thousands of pages of government strategy documents to inform its latest annual progress report to parliament. And our confidence in the UK meeting its climate goals is now markedly less than it was in our previous assessment a year ago. Key opportunities have been missed.

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27Jun/23

How streaming platforms make you more likely to watch certain programmes – new research

June 27, 2023EntertainmentBarb, Creative Commons, disney, Internet broadcasting, ITV, ITVX, Mike van Esler, Neil Thurman, Netflix, New media, Streaming television, Three S, United Kingdom, Video on demand servicesadmin

Neil Thurman, City, University of London

With the vast array of options of what to watch online, have you ever wondered why you picked that new comedy or that old documentary? Would you have chosen to watch them if they were on terrestrial TV? How much were you nudged to choose them by subtle prompts from the online streaming platforms?

Last year, when a new British streaming TV platform, ITVX, launched, it promised to be “led” by viewers who could “choose [from] thousands of hours of content.” Disney+ has made a similar promise: “Watch the way you want.”

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26Jun/23

Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too

June 26, 2023Conflict and WarAleksey Dyumin, Alexander Lukashenko, Andrey Rudenko, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Russia, Beijing, Belarus, China, Creative Commons, Don, Georgiy Kasianov, Heroes of the Russian Federation, Jean Monnet, Kazakhstan, Lenin, Moscow, Mykhailo Podolyak, Oleksiy Danilov, Putin, Qin Gang, Recep Tayyip, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian mercenaries, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sergei Shoigu, Sergey Shoigu, Sergey Surovikin, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, Stefan Wolff, Tetyana Malyarenko, Turkey, Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhinadmin

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

Blink and you could have missed it. Within 36 hours, the challenge mounted against the Kremlin by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary private military company the Wagner Group, was over. On Friday June 23 2023, Prigozhin ordered 25,000 of his troops on to a “march for justice”, which duly set out to confront the Russian president in Moscow. The following afternoon he called it off.

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22Jun/23

How scammers use psychology to create some of the most convincing internet cons – and what to watch out for

June 22, 2023InternetAdvance-fee scam, Confidence tricks, Creative Commons, Crime, Deception, Fraud, Human behavior, Internet fraud, PAYPAL, Romance scam, Scams, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social engineering, Spamming, Stacey Wood, Technical support scam, United States, Yaniv Hanochadmin

Stacey Wood, Scripps College and Yaniv Hanoch, University of Southampton

Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their targets, regardless of how intelligent they are.

So it’s important to keep up with the latest scams and understand how they work.

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19Jun/23

US regulators continue crypto crackdown – but here’s why the latest charges are different

June 19, 2023FinanceAndrew Urquhart, Binance, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cayman Islands, Changpeng Zhao, Coinbase, Coinbase Global Inc, Creative Commons, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency bubble, Cryptocurrency exchange, Economy, Finance, Gary Gensler, Howey, Initial coin offering, Money, Ripple, Ripple Labs, Shutterstock Global, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

Andrew Urquhart, University of Reading

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the cryptocurrency platform Coinbase shortly after launching a lawsuit against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.

This isn’t the first time Binance and Coinbase have caught the SEC’s attention – it’s not even the first time this year. But the latest charges are much more serious, including accusations that the exchanges are operating without the correct registration.

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19Jun/23

How a 400 million year old fossil changes our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature

June 19, 2023ScienceAnne Turner, Asteroxylon, Branches of biology, Branches of botany, Charles Darwin, Creative Commons, Evolutionary history of plants, Fibonacci numbers, Germany, Leaf, Leaves, Leonardo da Vinci, Luisa-Marie, Patterns in nature, Phyllotaxis, Plant morphology, Plants, Sandy Hetherington, Scotland, Spirals, United Kingdomadmin

Sandy Hetherington, The University of Edinburgh and Holly-Anne Turner, University College Cork

If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of a pineapple or the scales of a pinecone, then you have unknowingly witnessed brilliant examples of mathematical patterns in nature.

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17Jun/23

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

June 17, 2023Human InterestAndoque, Colombia, Creative Commons, Cristin, Eliran Arazi, Faustino Fiagama, Gadiel Levi, Human behavior, Indigenous languages of the Americas, Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Iris Andoke, Iris Andoke Macuna, Iris Andoque, Iris Andoque Macuna, Language, Lesly, Macuna, Nestor Andoque, Paris, Psychological resilience, Raquel Andoke, Raquel Andoque, Survival skills, Tien, Traditional knowledge, Witotoadmin

Eliran Arazi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an anthropologist who has spent more than a year living among the Andoque people in the region, conducting ethnographic fieldwork, I cannot simply label this as a miraculous event.

At least, not a miracle in the conventional sense of the word. Rather, the survival and discovery of these children can be attributed to the profound knowledge of the intricate forest and the adaptive skills passed down through generations by Indigenous people.

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07Jun/23

Apple Vision Pro headset: what does it do and will it deliver?

June 7, 2023InnovationApple, Apple Inc., Augmented reality, Craig Federighi, Creative Commons, Emerging technologies, Human–computer interaction, JOE MABANGLO, META, Microsoft, Mixed reality, New media, Panagiotis Ritsos, Peter Butcher, Reality, Technology, Tim Cook, United States, User interface techniques, Virtual reality, Wearable computer, Wearable technologyadmin

Panagiotis Ritsos, Bangor University and Peter Butcher, Bangor University

Apple recently unveiled its Vision Pro headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference in California. With it, Apple is venturing into a market of head-mounted devices (HMDs) – which are usually just displays, but in this case is more of a complete computer attached to your head – as well as the worlds of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR).

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05Jun/23

Voices of Preston’s Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: ‘Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!’

June 5, 2023SocialAlan Rice, Albums, Australia, Avenham, Barbados, Belfast, Bermuda, Bridgette Toussaint, Canada, Cherry McDonald, Clinton Smith, Creative Commons, David Coke, Dominica, Frank, Gladstone Afflick Preston, Greenidge, House Slippers, Ireland, Jack Hepworth, Jalgos, Jamaica, Joe, Kevin, Lancashire, London, Ribbleton Lane, Rome, Sylius Toussaint, The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, United Kingdom, United States, Vincent Skerrittadmin

Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire and Jack Hepworth, University of Oxford

From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily lives of people from the Caribbean who made their home here.

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