We need to talk about how Islamic State interprets Islam
Dec 01, 2015 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Since capturing swathes of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has embarked on a cyber-offensive to spread its message through social media. A great effort has been made to block and remove the content, to understand how this...
Want to do something good for your health? Try being generous
Nov 30, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Life Health
Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether its thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave...
Purging daily demons: what's behind the popularity of exorcisms?
Nov 30, 2015 16:14 pm UTC| Life
At Texas State University, I teach an honors course called Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism. Its not a gut course. My students produce research papers on topics that range from the role of sleep paralysis in reports of...
Asking whether porn causes sexual violence is the wrong question
Nov 30, 2015 15:56 pm UTC| Life
The idea that pornography causes or is at least linked to sexual violence is often simply accepted without question. We hear the association in court cases, political debate and media coverage of crimes, where the...
Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age
Nov 30, 2015 03:47 am UTC| Life Technology
Domestic violence is now widely recognised as a national crisis. However, there are significant gaps in responses to the intimate violence enabled by social media platforms like Facebook. Cyberstalking, non-consensual...
The world is more educated than it's ever been – how?
Nov 27, 2015 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
More people are going to school and university than ever before. Thats the largely positive picture of the state of education across the world published recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
Cinemas Refuse To Screen Church of England Ad
Nov 25, 2015 11:13 am UTC| Business Life
The UKs three leading cinema chains the Odeon, Cineworld and Vue have refused to screen a 60-second advert by the Church of England that features the Lords Prayer, over fears that some people could be offended by it, The...
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