A survey of 5,500 Brazilian and Italian school students aged 14-16 pointed to nationality, social perceptions of science and household income as more influential than religion. The findings are published in PLOS ONE (photo: Taylor Flowe/Unsplash) Religion influences secondary school students’ understanding and acceptance of evolutionary theory, but social and cultural factors such as nationality,...
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How Hiring More Women IT Experts Improves Cybersecurity Risk Management
Despite the contributions women have made to the information and technology field, they continue to be underrepresented. Ada Lovelace, for example, was the world’s first computer programmer. Grace Murray Hopper developed the first compiler. And Hedy Lamarr co-invented the modern spread-spectrum communication technology, which is found in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS technology. Today, the leading...
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FTX Founder Charged in Scheme to Defraud Crypto Investors
The U.S. government charged Samuel Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, with a host of financial crimes on Tuesday, alleging he intentionally deceived customers and investors to enrich himself and others, while playing a central role in the company’s multibillion-dollar collapse. Federal prosecutors said Bankman-Fried devised “a scheme and artifice to defraud” FTX’s...
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Former FTX CEO Defrauded Crypto Investors, Sec Alleges
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency platform FTX, orchestrated a years-long fraud by diverting investors’ funds to his private hedge fund and using them to make venture investments, lavish real estate purchases and large political donations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Tuesday in a complaint. Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday in the Bahamas, where...
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Study Reveals the Animals We See as ‘Friends,’ ‘Food,’ and Those ‘Worth Fighting For’
A new study published in the CABI journal Human-Animal Interactions has cast more light on the species of nonhuman animals that we see as ‘friends,’ ‘food,’ and those ‘worth fighting for.’ The research attempted to assess people’s social perceptions about various nonhuman animals including ‘food animals’ which have often been classified as being less sentient and historically...
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Using Art and Song to Help Bring the World’s Largest Mangrove Swamp Back from the Brink
Located in the low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, the Sundarbans straddle the border between India and Bangladesh and cover more than 1 million hectares, making them the world’s largest single contiguous mangrove swamp. A Ramsar site added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1987, they are home to a wide range of...
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Climate Crisis in Africa Exposes Real Cause of Hunger – Colonial Food Systems That Leave People More Vulnerable
In the waning hours of the year’s biggest climate change conference – COP27 – we learned of a deal to create a loss and damage fund. This is essentially a source of finance to compensate poor countries for the pain they are incurring because of climate change. An often-cited example of such suffering is the...
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Lanvin’s IPO: Can the Chinese Group Make a Name for Itself in Luxury?
Lanvin Group has another party betting on its success. In the wake of Meritz Securities Co. committing $50 million in a private placement ahead of Lanvin Group’s NYSE listing this month, the Shanghai-based fashion group announced on Monday that Handsome Corp. – which has been the exclusive distributor of the Lanvin brand in South Korea since 2007 – will...
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From Tiffany & Co. to Daniel Roth: A Hard Luxury Push is Underway at LVMH
At LVMH, fashion and leather goods are the name of the game. While soft luxury is the clear bread winner for the group – driving almost 50 percent of its $71.5 billion in revenue in 2021, the luxury giant (and similarly-situated companies) is placing increased emphasis on hard luxury, angling to bolster its Watches and Jewelry division,...
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Your Dog’s Behavior Is a Product of Their Genes
From the excitable sheep dog to the aloof Shiba Inu, and all breeds in between, dogs have unique and diverse behavioral traits. By analyzing DNA samples from over 200 dog breeds along with nearly 50,000 pet-owner surveys, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have pinpointed many of the genes associated with the behaviors of...
