The South African government has implemented numerous economic policies to boost employment since the democratic transition in 1994. But between 1995 and 2022 the growth in employment—from 9.5 million in 1995 to 15.8 million ...
Economics & Business
Jan 17, 2023
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Matthias Sutter has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn since mid-2017. He is one of the most prominent research-focused behavioral economists in the German-speaking world. He ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2023
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"Volunteers" tasked with enforcing the Chinese Communist Party's zero-COVID policies have suffered from stress and anxiety, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Dec 20, 2022
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As the tourism industry emerges from pandemic shutdowns and border closures, so too is "voluntourism," the sometimes controversial combination of overseas volunteer work and more traditional tourist experiences.
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2022
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Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to help in their quest. Now they hope to significantly scale up their volunteer ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2022
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaged these two overlapping spiral galaxies named SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, which lie more than a billion light-years from Earth. Despite appearing to collide in this image, the alignment ...
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2022
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An Irrawaddy dolphin calf who was rescued and nursed day and night for weeks by veterinarians and volunteers after his rescue from a tidal pool on Thailand's shore has died despite all their efforts, officials who were providing ...
Ecology
Sep 7, 2022
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For humans, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were a stressful time, marked by fear, isolation, canceled plans and uncertainty. But for birds that inhabit developed areas of the Pacific Northwest, the reduction in noise ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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For years, researchers have known that our physical and mental well-being improves when we freely give our time to help others. And when we do so through company-sponsored programs, performance-related outcomes like job satisfaction ...
Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2022
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Public involvement is an important component of many invasive species programs. Volunteers perform early detection of invasive species, track their spread, and also play active roles in their capture, control and removal. ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2022
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