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Communicating about climate change: What’s politics got to do with it?
In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics, explored how liberals…
Researchers identify brain circuit for spirituality
Using datasets from neurosurgical patients and those with brain lesions, investigators mapped lesion locations associated with spiritual and religious belief to a specific human brain circuit
Impact of COVID-19 on weddings reinforces need for marriage law reforms
Impact of COVID-19 on weddings reinforces need for marriage law reforms, experts say
New research shows link between politics, boredom and breaking public-health rules
People who are more prone to boredom and who are socially conservative are more likely to break public-health rules, according to new psychology research. While previous research demonstrated a connection between being highly prone to boredom and breaking social-distancing rules,…
Holberg Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum and Griselda Pollock
The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively
Humans are ready to take advantage of benevolent AI
Humans expect that AI is Benevolent and trustworthy. A new study reveals that at the same time humans are unwilling to cooperate and compromise with machines. They even exploit them. Picture yourself driving on a narrow road in the near…
Moral disgust has a ‘bad taste’
When we witness behaviours that violate shared moral norms, our brain inhibits the neurons that control our tongue movements – just like it happens when something tastes bad. An international research group led by the Universities of Bologna and Messina…
New archive to document controversial writer and broadcaster Don Cupitt
Former TV presenter reached popularity in the 80s for his divisive BBC series Sea of Faith
Future Pandemic? Consider Radically Altering Animal Agriculture Practices
FAU Bioethicist Offers Plausible Solutions to Mitigate Zoonotic Risk from Agriculture and Food Production for Public Health
How news coverage affects public trust in science
Negative stories without context can undermine confidence in science
Digital disclosure of Dutch East India Company archives by Huygens Institute
State-of-the-art scientific infrastructure enables better understanding of colonial history, the Dutch East India Company and the early-modern histories of countries and cultures of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago Worlds.
Palgrave announces release date for first-ever Iris Murdoch book series
New series on famed author’s life and work launches in September 2022
DFG to fund 17 new research training groups
Topics ranging from the quality of interaction in primary school teaching to novel quantum light sources and allergic diseases / A total of around €92 million for the first funding period
Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Mindfulness-based meditation programs have emerged as a promising treatment for conditions ranging from stress to sleeplessness to depression. In some cases, they’re even offered to people — schoolkids or employees, for example — who aren’t…
Study reveals the gateway to conscious awareness
Michigan Medicine researchers find out how some sensory information breaks through to conscious experience
Conspiracy theories characterise views in and about Europe
Conspiratorial narratives of internal disintegration and external threats affect views in the European Union and Europe to an increasing extent. Our trust in society is put to the test in crises such as COVID-19 when various groups are singled out…
Historian of science Gerald Holton wins the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton “for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science”
Racial diversity within a church is associated with higher average attendance over time
New study is a ‘startling contrast’ to past sesearch, Baylor University sociologist says
Increased precipitation and the watery miracles of Italian saints
A new study published in the journal Climatic Change examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium AD
The Holberg Prize names public philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as 2021 Laureate
(Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize–one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology–named American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as its 2021 Laureate. Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund…
Lonely? These odd rituals can help
Personal rituals around everyday tasks ease loneliness
Why COVID-19 vaccine distribution methods fall short and 3 ways to improve them
BINGHAMTON, NY – Several proposals have emerged on how to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, but they fall short in ensuring that the vaccine is distributed fairly. A team including Binghamton University professor Nicole Hassoun suggests three ways to more fairly…
Will we enjoy work more once routine tasks are automated? – Not necessarily, a study shows
Will we enjoy our work more once routine tasks are automated? – Not necessarily, suggests a recent study Research conducted at Åbo Akademi University suggests that when routine work tasks are being replaced with intelligent technologies, the result may be…
It’s morally wrong for rich nations to hoard COVID-19 vaccine
“Vaccine nationalism” fails to respect human rights
Researchers study how lifelong environmentalists want their remains handled after death
LAWRENCE — Traditional burial in a graveyard has environmental costs. Graves can take up valuable land, leak embalming chemicals and involve nonbiodegradable materials like concrete, as well as the plastic and steel that make up many caskets. But the other…
Study identifies ‘post-traumatic growth’ emerging from COVID-19 lockdowns
University of Bath project
NSF grant for philosophy database project
Lydia Patton has embarked on a mission that could spark new discoveries for generations of researchers. Since the mid-2000s, scholars have produced crucial research in the integrated history and philosophy of science discipline. But accessing those studies has proven difficult…
Scientific investigations of believed remains of two apostles
In Rome lies the Santi Apostoli church, cared for by Franciscan brothers for more than 500 years. For more than 1500 years, this site has held the believed remains of two of the earliest Christians and Jesu apostles: St. Philip…
The end of domestic wine in 17th century Japan
September 1632 document likely shows the order for the last batch of Japanese wine in the Edo period
Researchers deconstruct ancient Jewish parchment using multiple imaging techniques
Analyses of the materials in the scrolls helps put the object into an historical context and guides conservators in future restoration efforts
Newly discovered and unpublished collection presents philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy To Francis Skinner – The Wittgenstein-Skinner Manuscripts by editors and contributors: Arthur Gibson and Niamh O’Mahony
The psychology of causality
Psychologist illuminates one of humanity’s most fundamental concepts: cause and effect
Recommendations for coping with working and learning remotely and returning to the workplace
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, published by IOS Press, is committed to helping organizations manage the challenges they face during the COVID-19 pandemic by publishing robust, evidence-based research and commentary. All articles featured here and in the WORK COVID-19 Collection are freely available.
Religious discrimination particularly high for Jews and Muslims, study shows
HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2020) – Although people of all faiths report growing religious discrimination during the past few years, the phenomenon is most common among Jews and Muslims, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University and…
How you measure happiness depends on where you live
Original research from 63 countries shows different questions must be asked to gauge happiness in Asian, Western countries
Study of hope and optimism: New paper examines research in emerging fields
How does practicing hope and optimism benefit or harm us?
How religion can hamper economic progress
Study from Bocconi University on impact of antiscientific curricula of Catholic schools on accumulation of human capital in France during the 2nd Industrial Revolution could hold lessons on impact of religion on technological progress today
Engineering a way out of climate change: Genetically modified organisms could be the key
Scientists explain how genetically engineered organisms can help us diminish atmospheric carbon and tackle climate change
Multiracial congregations in US have nearly tripled, Baylor University study finds
But researchers say the study does not conclude that diverse congregations necessarily promote racial justice
Explaining the religious vote for Trump
New research by LSU sociologists indicate it wasn’t Christian nationalism that drove churchgoers’ Trump vote in 2016. Rather, surprisingly, Christian nationalism was important among non-churchgoers. Christian nationalism is thought to have been an important factor in the election of Donald…
New research to protect public from violent extremists
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Staffordshire University are joining forces on a ground-breaking research project which aims to shed new light on the intentions of violent extremists. The ‘Disguised compliance in terrorist offending’ project will provide frontline staff across…
Attention! Danger: what fear does to us
BfR Knowledge Dialogue discusses how to deal with uncertainty
Study: Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love their own side
‘When ideals and policies matter less than dominating foes, government becomes dysfunctional,’ researchers say
Pastoral care shown to support older people at risk from COVID-19
Volunteers from the Catholic Church in Brazil helped to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 among the elderly, a new study shows.
Pastoral care shown to support older people at risk from COVID-19
Volunteers from the Catholic Church in Brazil helped to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 among the elderly, a new study shows
The First Book of Breathing: A new assessment based on an edition of papyrus FMNH 31324
Existing in the afterlife – the Book of Breathing
Tradition of petrified birds in the Dome of the Rock
Solomon and the petrified birds
American historian Mills Kelly receives Gutenberg Teaching Award
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz presents its award for excellence in teaching worth EUR 10,000 online this year
The Pentecostal movement seeks a healthier form of community
Pentecostalism is the largest and fastest growing branch of Christianity in the world after the Catholic Church. Thanks to its focus on missionary work, Pentecostalism wields significant power particularly in areas where western secular culture has not gained dominant status,…