Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are the first to show chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human. Working with colleagues from ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2013
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In 2018, California wildfires caused economic losses of nearly $150 billion, or about 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire United States that year, and a considerable fraction of those costs affected people ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2020
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Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday.
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2023
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Daniel Graff is director of the University of Notre Dame's Higgins Labor Program and holds a joint appointment in the Department of History. He is an expert on contemporary labor issues, labor and economic history, and issues ...
Economics & Business
Nov 2, 2022
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If radical action to reduce emissions isn't taken in the next decade or so, many of today's schoolchildren could live in a world that's 3℃ or 4℃ hotter by the time they enter their later years. Their working lives would ...
Education
Feb 25, 2020
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As MIT works to advance solutions for global challenges in the realms of innovation, education, planetary environment, and human health, MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) has tapped key scholars ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2016
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The issue of intellectual property rights in the music industry remains a hot topic, and the debate seems to intensify every time technological advances are made. A new doctoral thesis from the School of Business, Economics ...
Economics & Business
Jun 4, 2013
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Two years ago, Dr. Gonzalo Venegas decided to bring his medical practice into the Information Age.
Business
Jun 10, 2011
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Twentieth century Swedish labor market policy was not solely shaped by inter-class cooperation, but also by tough conflicts. Industrial rationalization and investments in new technology were met with protests from workers. ...
Economics & Business
Jul 10, 2024
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In a satirical look at canoeing in Canada, Ojibway comedian and author Drew Hayden Taylor once joked that "every time a non-native person whitewater canoes down the Madawaska River, or goes kayaking off Tobermory, they should ...
Political science
Jun 18, 2024
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