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Time Spent Watching Television Does Not Replace Physical Activity for Finnish Men
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Time Spent Watching Television Does Not Replace Physical Activity for Finnish Men

A large proportion of highly active men watch more television than their low-active peers do. In contrast, highly active women watch less television than low-active women do. Previous studies have found prolonged television time to be more harmful to health than other domains of sedentariness. A recent longitudinal study with a ten-year follow-up examined how...

Women in Arab Countries Find Themselves Torn Between Opportunity and Tradition
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Women in Arab Countries Find Themselves Torn Between Opportunity and Tradition

Arab women, long relegated to the private sphere by law and social custom, are gaining new access to public life. All countries of the Arab Gulf now have workforce “nationalization policies” that aim to reduce dependency on migrant labor by getting more women into the workforce. Saudi Arabia set a goal of 30% female labor...

Oscar Snub of ‘Little Women’ Shows the Limits of Hollywood Feminism
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Oscar Snub of ‘Little Women’ Shows the Limits of Hollywood Feminism

The Oscars have long represented a way for the American film industry to celebrate and market its achievements. Even when there are surprising wins, like this year’s top awards sweep by South Korean film Parasite, the Oscars tell us more about the values of the industry or what it wants to say than what might...

Parasite: at Last the Oscars Jumps the ‘One-Inch’ Subtitles Barrier
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Parasite: at Last the Oscars Jumps the ‘One-Inch’ Subtitles Barrier

Parasite may be the first foreign-language film to win a Oscar for best picture, but now that line has been crossed, there’s every hope this might mark a shift in attitudes to what the film’s director Bong Joon-ho calls the “one inch tall barrier of subtitles”. A lot has been said recently about diversity and...

What Is the Place of the Performing Arts Fair in the Age of the Internet?
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What Is the Place of the Performing Arts Fair in the Age of the Internet?

Review: Platform Papers 62: Performing Arts Markets and their Conundrums, by Justin Macdonnell (Currency Press) The performing arts may be a public good that serve to enrich Australia’s cultural imagination, but they are also a product competing for audience share and government, corporate and private support. Established in 1994, the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM)...

There’s Been a Spike in Fake African Art. What’s Being Done to Fight It
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There’s Been a Spike in Fake African Art. What’s Being Done to Fight It

The art world has been dealing with fakes for more than 2 000 years, with perhaps the most notorious case being the forgeries of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s paintings by artist Han van Meegeren during the Second World War. Now African art is becoming a larger and larger target. Fakes are flooding the South African...

Red Coral Effectively Recovers in Mediterranean Protected Areas
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Red Coral Effectively Recovers in Mediterranean Protected Areas

Protection measures of the Marine Protected Areas have enable red coral colonies (Corallium rubrum) to recover partially in the Mediterranean Sea, reaching health levels similar to those of the 1980s in Catalonia and of the 1960s in the Ligurian Sea (Northwestern Italy). This according to a recent study carried out by researchers from the Institute...

Save the Giants, Save the Planet
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Save the Giants, Save the Planet

Habitat loss, hunting, logging and climate change have put many of the world’s most charismatic species at risk. A new study, led by the University of Arizona, has found that not only are larger plants and animals at higher risk of extinction, but their loss would fundamentally degrade life on earth. The study, published in...

New Global Biodiversity Study Provides Unified Map of Life on Land and in the Ocean
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New Global Biodiversity Study Provides Unified Map of Life on Land and in the Ocean

New research led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and partner organizations yielded the first comprehensive global biodiversity map documenting the distribution of life both on land and in the ocean. The study published today in PLOS ONE offers the most complete picture available of where life occurs on Earth and what the most critical environmental factors are...