A research group led by Professor Emeritus Takuji Hoshino of Okayama University of Science (OUS) has successfully developed a new...
Culture
Why You Seriously Need to Stop Trying to Be Funny at Work
How can you get ahead in your career and still enjoy the ride? One solution offered in business books, LinkedIn...
A Bari Weiss-Led CBS News Would Likely Look Different, but How the Public Feels About It Might Not Change
For weeks, there has been a great deal of reporting about an impending shake-up in the world of television news....
From Anime to Activism: How the ‘One Piece’ Pirate Flag Became the Global Emblem of Gen Z Resistance
From Paris and Rome to Jakarta, Indonesia, and New York, a curious banner has appeared in protest squares. With hollow...
Forget Materialism, a Simple Life Is Happier
In an age where billionaires and conspicuous consumption are increasingly on display, new Otago-led research shows a simple life really...
Plantation Tourism, Memory and the Uneasy Economics of Heritage in the American South
The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful...
Why Leisure Matters for a Good Life, According to Aristotle
In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an...
How Bachata Rose from Dominican Republic’s Brothels and Shantytowns to Become a Global Sensation
What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of the Dominican Republic in the 1960s has become...
