Elizabeth Rowe likes the convenience of unlocking her phone without typing in a passcode—but not enough to use the phone’s face identification. As a legal scholar who studies facial recognition technology, she knows that few restrictions govern what’s done with the data it captures. “It’s the Wild West,” says Rowe, a professor at the University […]
Maps Depict and Shape History, Power, Identity
The stories maps tell—and particularly the way they can show how some troubling aspects of the colonial past continue to affect our present—are primarily what interest Kyle Wanberg, a clinical associate professor in global liberal studies and author of the new book Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2020). “There is a haunting […]
Laughing Is Good for Your Mind and Your Body – Here’s What the Research Shows
Amusement and pleasant surprises – and the laughter they can trigger – add texture to the fabric of daily life.
Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response to funny events, actually takes a lot of work, because it activates many areas of the brain: areas that control motor, emotional, cognitive and social processing.
Nasdaq Wants to Require Companies to Have Women, Minority and LGBTQ+ Board Members
The Nasdaq stock exchange is making a push for diversity in the mostly male, mostly White boardrooms of the nearly 3,300 companies it lists. In a proposal submitted to the SEC, Nasdaq wants boards to have at least two diverse members.
3 Things Drive Our Social Media ‘Non-Click’ Decisions
A new study explores why people make a “non-click” choice, a decision to not respond to some social media posts, even when they spend time as “lurkers” of the content. For the study, published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, researchers observed 38 participants as they scrolled through their Facebook news feeds and found that the […]