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11Dec

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Cryptocurrency Is Changing The Way Colleges Do Business With Students And Donors

Until about 2020, universities used cryptocurrencies only to pay ransoms to criminals attacking their networks. A fast payment to criminals helped victim universities restore their networks quickly. With increasing public adoption of cryptocurrencies, especially among young consumers, universities are exploring them, too. As of early 2022, 20% of U.S. consumers had used cryptocurrencies. According to an April 2022 report, 28% of 13- to 39-year-olds had purchased at least one type of cryptocurrency. Among consumers in this age group, 13% had purchased and 38% were interested in a particular offshoot of cryptocurrencies called non-fungible tokens. Cryptocurrencies have lost market value from a peak of about US$3 trillion in November 2021 to $804 billion in November 2022. And their uses are...

Podcast Of The Week: What It Takes To Win Fast In An Ever-Changing And Highly Competitive Industry: Exploring The Hawke Method With Hawke Media Founder Erik Huberman

29Sep

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DIGITAL MARKETING

Podcast Of The Week: What It Takes To Win Fast In An Ever-Changing And Highly Competitive Industry: Exploring The Hawke Method With Hawke Media Founder Erik Huberman

Interview with Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO, Hawke Media Episode 078- What it takes to win fast in an ever-changing and highly competitive industry: Exploring The Hawke Method with Hawke Media Founder Erik Huberman Start Your Outgrow Trial Outgrow is an interactive marketing platform that lets marketers and digital agencies create quizzes, calculators and assessments to boost their marketing efforts. Our tools help companies generate new leads, increase their social footprint and engage their customers. We've seen numerous examples of Outgrow customers getting up to 50% conversions using calculators and quizzes! Saksham Sharda Creative Director, Outgrow Erik Huberman Founder and CEO, Hawke Media Erik is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, a highly ...

Changing Science Education To Improve Science Literacy

12Jul

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EDUCATION, SCIENCE

Changing Science Education To Improve Science Literacy

To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented understanding of fundamental scientific concepts. The teaching method reinforces memorization of isolated facts, proceeding from one textbook chapter to the next without necessarily making connections between them, instead of learning how to use the information and connect those facts meaningfully. The ability to make these connections is important beyond the classroom as well, because it’s the basis of science literacy: the ability to use scientific knowledge ...

Corporate Takeovers Are Fundamentally Changing Podcasting – Here’s How

18May

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BUSINESS

Corporate Takeovers Are Fundamentally Changing Podcasting – Here’s How

At first glance, it may seem as though Big Tech can’t figure out how to make money off its foray into podcasting. In early May 2022, Meta announced that it was abruptly ending Facebook’s podcast integration less a year after it launched. Facebook had offered podcasters the ability to upload their shows to the social media site. Meanwhile, Spotify’s own expensive gamble on podcast integration within its music streaming service hasn’t resulted in the surge of new listeners that it had hoped. And what about the emergence of social audio platforms like Clubhouse that promised to re-imagine podcasting as live audio chatrooms hosted by celebrities and public figures? After its meteoric rise in 2021 during the height of the global pandemic, Clubhouse has seen major declines in app installs, in...

Changing How People See The World – Netflix’s Big Bet On Foreign Content And International Viewers Could Upend The Global Mediascape

7Apr

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CULTURE, VIDEO REELS

Changing How People See The World – Netflix’s Big Bet On Foreign Content And International Viewers Could Upend The Global Mediascape

As a kid growing up in Italy, I remember watching the American TV series “Happy Days,” which chronicled the 1950s-era Midwestern adventures of the Fonz, Richie Cunningham and other local teenagers. The show, combined with other American entertainment widely available in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, shaped my perception of the United States long before I ever set foot in the country. Today, I call the U.S. home, and I have developed my own understanding of its complexities. I am able to see “Happy Days” as a nostalgic revival of an ideal, conflict-free American small town. “Happy Days” was a product of Hollywood, which is arguably still the epicenter of the global entertainment industry. So recent news that the streaming service Netflix is opening an Italian office and will begin massive...

Changing What It Means To Be Human – AI Is Killing Choice And Chance

3Apr

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AI, TECHNOLOGY

Changing What It Means To Be Human – AI Is Killing Choice And Chance

The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations – from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated – reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence is a new and powerful tool, and it, too, is altering humanity. Writing and, later, the printing press made it possible to carefully record history and easily disseminate knowledge, but it eliminated centuries-old traditions of oral storytelling. Ubiquitous digital and phone cameras have changed how people experience and perceive events. Widely available GPS systems have meant that drivers rarely ge...

Are These Game-Changing COVID-19 Vaccines Safe? They Were Developed In Record Time

20Nov

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IN OTHER NEWS

Are These Game-Changing COVID-19 Vaccines Safe? They Were Developed In Record Time

There are now two COVID-19 vaccines that, at least according to preliminary reports, appear to be 94.5% and 95% effective. Both were developed in a record-breaking 11 months or so. I am an infectious diseases specialist and professor at the University of Virginia. I care for patients with COVID-19 and am conducting the local site for a phase 3 clinical trial of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail as a tool to prevent household transmission of COVID-19. I’m also conducting research on how dysregulation of the immune system during SARS-CoV-2 infection causes lung damage. Despite the vaccines’ relatively rapid development, the normal safety testing protocols are still in place. How long does most vaccine development take? Vaccines typically take at least a decade to develop, test and manufacture....

Chess is taking over the online video game world – and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

4Sep

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GAMING

Chess is taking over the online video game world – and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess grandmaster, Hikaru Nakamura, along with a number of celebrities of the video game world, is leading a renaissance in the ancient game. While viewers eagerly await Nakamura’s streams to begin, they are treated to a slideshow of memes involving Nakamura’s face superimposed into scenes from pop culture. First a reference to a well-known Japanese animation, next a famous upside-down kiss with Spiderman and finally, Nakamura’s characteristic grin is edited onto the Mona Lisa herself. From Aug. 21 to Sept. 6, Twitch and Chess.com are hosting a tournament, called Pogchamps, where some of the most pop...

Hit ’em where it hurts – how economic threats are a potent tool for changing people’s minds about the Confederate flag

17Aug

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POLITICS

Hit ’em where it hurts – how economic threats are a potent tool for changing people’s minds about the Confederate flag

Activists nationwide have resumed demanding the removal of statues and symbols that are considered racially offensive – such as of slave owners, Confederate leaders and the Confederate flag. The requests – and related boycotts and threats of other economic protests – have been part of the national controversy about racism in American life and have sparked questions about how to recognize traumatic elements of U.S. history. Typically, the debate about the role of Confederate imagery in public life is seen as a political, social or racial issue. But in recent research, we discovered that economic concerns could be effective in shifting Southerners’ attitudes about Confederate symbols. Public officials and individual citizens alike are more likely to oppose the presence of Confederate symb...

In changing urban neighborhoods, new food offerings can set the table for gentrification

2Apr

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Journalism, VIDEO REELS

In changing urban neighborhoods, new food offerings can set the table for gentrification

When new residents and businesses move into low-income neighborhoods, they often deny that they are displacing current residents. In a striking exception, a coffee shop in Denver’s rapidly changing Five Points area posted a sign in 2017 that read “ink! Coffee. Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014” on one side, and “Nothing says gentrification like being able to order a cortado” on the other side. The sign struck nerves and spurred protests because it illustrated something about urban residents’ experiences of gentrification – changes that occur in moderately priced neighborhoods when more upscale residents and businesses move in. Gentrification fundamentally revolves around who gets to – or has to – live in particular places. But the economics of housing changes cannot be sepa...