Each year the stakes grow higher in the fight to save the environment and combat global warming. Now more than ever, we’re aware of the damaging effects that our current dependence on fossil fuels holds for our collective futures. One…
Franz Boas (1858-1942) is remembered today primarily as an ethnographer of Indigenous Americans and as the ‘Father of American Anthropology’. His enduring legacy, however, is that he turned anthropology to confront the question of race and, through his writing and…
Corporate Social Responsibility Examples: Purpose Is Important A quiet — and sometimes not-so-quiet — revolution is taking place in the corporate world. It centers around corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a concept that’s being discussed more and more often in…
By Claire White, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge, USA and author of An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion. One of the challenges facing Americans today is establishing religious tolerance. Where do we begin? One…
When it works, Lean management provides such an important competitive advantage that it has spread far beyond the factory floor to include service industries, government agencies, healthcare, and more. The problem is that it doesn’t always work. The reason is…
Written by Michael C. Abrams, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Maryland-College Park and author of The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual now in its second edition. Architects study a site or a building through observation, reflection, and creative…
2025 is set out to be a huge year for sports, with the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup, Rugby World Cup, and ICC Cricket World Cup, to name a few. Thousands of dedicated supporters will be travelling far and wide…