The personal credit scores of top-level corporate executives can help explain their decision making in the corporate environment, at least when it involves evaluating risk, a new study suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University conducted an experiment with a national sample of high-level executives and found that those with subprime credit scores tended to...
Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia after around 50 thousand years ago. However, fossil evidence shows that there were numerous failed dispersals before this time that left no detectable traces in living people. In a paper published in Nature this week, new evidence for the...
The Comfortable Trap Imagine wandering through a mall—or worse, a supermarket—and seeing row upon row of people strolling about as though they’d just rolled out of bed. So snug, so stretchy, and oh so revealing (of the decidedly unglamorous parental choice to skip pants today). Once the province of gym bunnies, leggings have, in a...
A new study published in the Strategic Management Journal finds that international firms that strategically withdraw from certain markets may be better positioned to grow and compete more effectively in others. The research highlights how focusing on core markets—rather than spreading resources too thin—can strengthen long-term performance. The study, conducted by Chunhu Jeon (Morgan State University), Jonathan...
Whether you have a rebellious personality or not, most people imagine they are better at overcoming pressure to violate their own principles than they really are, finds a new study. Researchers found that most individuals think they would be more likely than the average person to disobey an immoral or unlawful order from an authority...
Get rid of states? Legal scholar Stephen Legomsky, who taught for 34 years at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, has just published a book, “Reimagining the American Union,” that proposes a radical idea: Abolish state government. The Conversation’s politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit – a former statehouse reporter herself –...
The South American country has been in the headlines lately, but let’s not forget its captivating topography, which unfortunately, contributes to its challenges. With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia’s government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca, the drug’s main ingredient – All photographs...
In our May analysis, The Silent Epidemic: America’s Growing Anxiety Crisis, we explored how uncertainty and despair—born of economic insecurity, social isolation, and widening inequality—have fueled a striking surge in anxiety across the United States. Yet this mental-health crisis is not confined by borders. Across the globe, societies wrestling with depression, poverty, and disillusionment are...
Ahead of a major solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the artist welcomes Art Basel to her unusual studio on the shores of Lake Atitlán Vivian Suter paints in the dark, and only outdoors. Nearly every day, she exits her home on a lush parcel of land in Panajachel, Guatemala, in the late afternoon....
With unique perspectives and innovative practices, this eclectic selection highlights the richness and variety of the country’s contemporary art scene You may know about Jean Tinguely, Alberto Giacometti, or Meret Oppenheim – monumental figures of art history who were either born or spent their lives in Switzerland. But what about the many artists that contribute...
