U.S. High Net Worth Individual Wealth Grew by More Than a Trillion Dollars in 2014

Dec 02, 2015 07:30 am UTC| Life

Growth of the High Net Worth Individual (HNWI)1population and wealth in the United States reached record levels in 2014 maintaining its status as the largest HNWI market globally, according to the U.S. Wealth Report 2015...

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...