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3Apr

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AI, TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

A Killer App For The Metaverse? Fill It With AI Avatars Of Ourselves – So We Don’t Need To Go There

Big numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry. It heavily arms the Xbox giant for its vision of the metaverse, in which gaming is the marketing adrenaline of this much-touted online future that is to be experienced immersively through virtual reality (VR) headsets or augmented-reality (AR) glasses. The stock market knocked US$10 billion off Playstation maker Sony’s valuation on the news. The metaverse was also a big noise at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, branded “tech’s hottest trend” by Variety magazine. Product launches included Samsung’s new VR world My House, offering virtual home makeovers; a...

Religion And Geography Add To Voters’ Diversity – There’s No One ‘Latino Vote’

2Apr

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POLITICS

Religion And Geography Add To Voters’ Diversity – There’s No One ‘Latino Vote’

Nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States today are Latino, and “the Latino vote” has attracted significant news coverage as their political voice grows stronger. Yet considering all 62 million Latinos as a group isn’t necessarily all that helpful in understanding attitudes or voting patterns, as some scholars and journalists have pointed out. The U.S. Latino population is extremely diverse. As scholars who study immigration in the fields of sociology and religious ethics, we are especially interested in the growing religious diversity and often overlooked geographical diversity among Latino populations. These aspects of Latino identity are just beginning to be recognized more clearly in media reports. Yet they are as informative as gender, race and other characteristics for understandin...

Life Coaching And Success Coaching – Is There A Difference?

15Oct

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SOCIETY

Life Coaching And Success Coaching – Is There A Difference?

Can one be a life coach and also be a success? Are there different strategies and skills that success the coaches use that are not employed in a life coaching practice? Life Coaching and Success Coaching Differ Because of Emphasis Life and success coaches certainly experience much overlap in the skills, knowledge, and tools they use with their clients. The differences between them are few. However, their focus and emphasis may be different with respect to some of their work. What do Goals Mean for a Life Coach and a Success Coach? Coaches usually have clients that seek specific, external goals. For example, an academic success coach might be helping a student learn better study and time management habits that will directly result in a better grade point average, higher SAT scores, or i...

Offices Are Too Hot Or Too Cold – Is There A Better Way To Control Room Temperature?

4Apr

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Journalism

Offices Are Too Hot Or Too Cold – Is There A Better Way To Control Room Temperature?

In any office, home or other shared space, there’s almost always someone who’s too cold, someone who’s too hot – and someone who doesn’t know what the fuss around the thermostat is all about. Someone’s too hot and someone’s too cold. Collage by The Conversation, combining images by Monika Wisniewska and Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND Most often, building owners and operators find out how their heating and cooling systems are doing by asking occupants if they’re comfortable or whether they want to be cooler or warmer. However, everyone has a different ideal temperature at any given time, based on all sorts of factors, including their age and gender, their physical activity level, what they’re wearing and even how much stress they’re feeling at the moment. This is a complex prob...

The Legal Age For Purchasing Assault Weapons Does Not Make Sense There Are Historical And Psychological Reasons Why

4Apr

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IMPACT

The Legal Age For Purchasing Assault Weapons Does Not Make Sense There Are Historical And Psychological Reasons Why

The Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings in May 2022 had at least two things in common: The shooters were 18 years old, and they had both legally purchased their own assault rifles. The shooters’ young age was not an aberration. The average age of school shooters is 18, when tracking incidents since 1966. The relatively young age of most mass shooters has ignited conversations about the minimum legal age for purchasing firearms. When it comes to gun laws, there is clearly a legal debate about how to define adulthood. But there is also a complex history of how societies determine adulthood, as I’ve examined in my work on the age of marriage and sexual consent. Considering someone an adult once they turn 18 is a relatively recent trend, and it’s not clear that it can stand up to public scru...

There Are Ways To Change Racial And Ethnic Diversity Lacking Among Nonprofit Leaders

2Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

There Are Ways To Change Racial And Ethnic Diversity Lacking Among Nonprofit Leaders

About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90% in 2016. Similarly, roughly 78% of nonprofit board members were white in 2019, down from 84% in 2016, according to Board Source, a nonprofit that tracks this information. In a country where Black and Latino individuals and other people of color make up about 40% of the population, this lack of diversity among nonprofit leaders could interfere with both the work that nonprofits do and their influence in the communities they serve, for several reasons. Constraints caused when diversity is lacking According to Board Source’s most recent data, just 6% of nonprofit board chairs identified as Black, 5% as Latino and 2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Only 5% of nonprofit CEOs were Black, 3% Hispanic and 2% Asian or Pacifi...

There Are Laws, Incentives And Mindset Changes In Place That Could Reduce The Medical Errors That Keep Killing Patients

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

There Are Laws, Incentives And Mindset Changes In Place That Could Reduce The Medical Errors That Keep Killing Patients

Michael J. Saks, Arizona State University Dr. Christopher Duntsch was a spine surgeon so reckless, incompetent or impaired that he’s now in a Texas prison. Better known as “Dr. Death,” Duntsch severed nerves, vocal cords and arteries that should not have been touched. He left patient after patient maimed, paralyzed or dead. Moreover, his story exposes the inability or reluctance of the medical community to stop him. Eventually, the Texas Medical Board did revoke his license. But three fellow surgeons, certain that Duntsch would simply move to another state and resume his career of carnage, implored the Dallas County district attorney to prosecute him. In 2017, a jury took just four hours to convict. Although sentenced to life in prison, Duntsch is up for parole in 2045, when he will be 7...

Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources For Students Returning To School With Anxiety, Grief And Gaps In Social Skills?

23Aug

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EDUCATION

Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources For Students Returning To School With Anxiety, Grief And Gaps In Social Skills?

Education Sandra M. Chafouleas, University of Connecticut and Amy Briesch, Northeastern University Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among children and adolescents during the pandemic. One reason is that children’s well-being is tightly connected to family and community conditions such as stress and financial worries. Particularly for children living in poverty, there are practical obstacles, like transportation and scheduling, to accessing mental health services. That’s one reason school mental health professionals – who include psychologists, counselors and social workers – are so essential. As many kids resume instruc...

TikTok Is The Latest Battleground – There’s A Long History Of Dances Being Pilfered For Profit

23Jul

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CULTURE, VIDEO REELS

TikTok Is The Latest Battleground – There’s A Long History Of Dances Being Pilfered For Profit

Jill Vasbinder, University of Maryland, Baltimore County In January 2020, 14-year-old Jalaiah Harmon created what would become one of the biggest viral dance sensations on TikTok. But few users knew that Harmon, who is Black, invented the dance, which she dubbed the Renegade – at least not until a month later, when The New York Times drew attention to her case. That’s because a TikTok user had copied the dance, and it was that TikToker’s rendition that went viral. Because Harmon didn’t get credit, she wasn’t able to reap the benefits of more views and followers, which, in turn, could have led to collaborations and sponsorships. Harmon is only the latest in a long list of women and people of color whose choreography and dance work have been pilfered for profit – a story that dates back ...

There Are Some Promising Solutions, But Huge Numbers Of The Formerly Incarcerated Are Unemployed

22Jan

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

There Are Some Promising Solutions, But Huge Numbers Of The Formerly Incarcerated Are Unemployed

People who have been incarcerated face major challenges finding work after their release. About 45% of formerly incarcerated Americans were unemployed one year after leaving prison, according to a multiyear study the Brookings Institution released in 2018. CC BY-NC-ND This is far higher than U.S. joblessness levels, even during the coronavirus pandemic. The overall U.S. rate spiked to 14.7% in April 2020, receding to 6.7% by December – nearly twice where it stood at the end of 2019. Three factors essential to a successful transition from prison are employment, housing and transportation, and no one can afford stable housing or reliable transportation without employment. I’m researching two innovative ways to combat unemployment among the formerly incarcerated. One approach relies on so...