Are you a doom scroller or a Twitter addict? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others' posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content? Psychologists believe ...
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2023
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Despite research showing associations between anabolic steroid use and criminal offending, the possibility of a similar association between legal performance-enhancing substance use, such as creatine, and criminal offending ...
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2021
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Online shopping and digital payment options have made shopping easier and more enjoyable—money can be spent almost unnoticeably. These factors predispose people to impulse purchases. A lack of budgeting and cost control ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your algorithms: Google is creating a $25 million fund for artificial intelligence research around the world, to address social and economic problems.
Business
Oct 31, 2018
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When it comes to accumulating and assessing research evidence, meta-analyses are considered the gold standard as they allow researchers to analyze results from many studies on the same question. It is sometimes the case, ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 14, 2019
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Deprived communities and the most vulnerable in society are bearing the brunt of hardship in the pandemic.
Economics & Business
Oct 15, 2020
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Are environmental and social problems such as global warming and poverty the result of inadequate governmental regulations or does the burden fall on our failure as consumers to make better consumption choices? According ...
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2014
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When the crown jewel of industrial civilization—the automobile—was introduced in London, it was met with resistance. Wouldn't burning fossil fuels pollute the air? "Yes, it would," admitted its proponents, "but think ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2019
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Buying green is getting more and more popular, but is it enough to solve the sustainability problem? Lewis Akenji from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland puts it bluntly:
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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The knife attack on a dance class of children in Southport has left the country horrified. We do not yet know much about what happened, but a male aged 17 has been charged with the murder of three girls and 10 counts of attempted ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2024
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