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La publicidad artesanal de Vietnam, un recuerdo que está en peligro de extinción

  • Written by Cristina Nualart, Researcher of Contemporary Art and Art of Vietnam, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Panel pintado a mano que anunciaba un centro deportivo. Foto: C. NualartAuthor provided

Desde inicios del siglo XX, las urbes de Vietnam se han desarrollado prodigiosamente. Saigón se convirtió en Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, una localidad colonial, luego comunista, que ahora es una metrópolis dinámica y vibrante.

Pero quedan...

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La publicidad artesanal de Vietnam, un recuerdo de está en peligro de extinción

  • Written by Cristina Nualart, Researcher of Contemporary Art and Art of Vietnam, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Panel pintado a mano que anunciaba un centro deportivo. Foto: C. NualartAuthor provided

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Desde inicios del siglo XX, las urbes de Vietnam se han desarrollado prodigiosamente. Saigón se convirtió en Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, una localidad colonial, luego comunista, que ahora es una metrópolis dinámica y vibrante.

P...

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Limits on Chinese graduate student visas may protect US intellectual property but drive away talent

  • Written by Jack Marr, Clinical Associate Professor of International Business, Boise State University
The Trump administration may limit visas for Chinese students in hopes to curtail intellectual property theft. Onur Buyuktezgel/www.shutterstock.com

Some Chinese students studying STEM-related fields may not be staying in the U.S. as long as they’d planned. The Trump administration announced on May 29 that it may limit some graduate...

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22 percent of men without college don't have jobs. Here's why they're being left behind

  • Written by Erin Wolcott, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
The job market is still tough for many Americans.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

The unemployment rate has plunged to about the lowest level in half a century. Yet at least one group of Americans is being left behind: men who didn’t go to college.

Just 78 percent of men aged 25-54 who never went to college were employed in 2016, the latest year for...

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22% of men without college don't have jobs. Here's why they're being left behind

  • Written by Erin Wolcott, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
The job market is still tough for many Americans.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

The unemployment rate has plunged to about the lowest level in half a century. Yet at least one group of Americans is being left behind: men who didn’t go to college.

Just 78 percent of men aged 25-54 who never went to college were employed in 2016, the latest year for...

Read more: 22% of men without college don't have jobs. Here's why they're being left behind

How the American Bible Society became evangelical

  • Written by John Fea, Professor of American History, Messiah College
Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth chats with Eric North, secretary of the American Bible Society, during a visit to the organization’s headquarters in New York City on Oct. 28, 1954.AP Photo/John Lindsay

The American Bible Society, an organization that for over 200 years has been on a mission of distributing Bibles, has produced a...

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Satellite imagery is revolutionizing the world. But should we always trust what we see?

  • Written by Melinda Laituri, Professor of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
Sea ice off of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.NASA

In 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 captured what has become one of the most iconic images of the Earth: the Blue Marble. Biochemist Gregory Petsko described the image as “perfectly representing the human condition of living on an island in the universe.” Many researchers now...

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Spending time alone in nature is good for your mental and emotional health

  • Written by Brad Daniel, Professor of Outdoor Education, Montreat College
Hiking the Savage River Loop in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.Lian Law/NPS

Today Americans live in a world that thrives on being busy, productive and overscheduled. Further, they have developed the technological means to be constantly connected to others and to vast options for information and entertainment through social media. For...

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Not just a place to live: From homelessness to citizenship

  • Written by Michael Rowe, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University

Twenty years ago, Jim lived under a highway bridge in New Haven, Connecticut. He was in his 50s and had once been in the Army.

After an honorable discharge, he bounced from one job to another, drank too much, became estranged from his family and finally ended up homeless. A New Haven mental health outreach team found him one morning sleeping under...

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When will Google defend democracy?

  • Written by Ronald Robertson, Ph.D. Student in Network Science, Northeastern University
How does searching affect voting?Blablo101/Shutterstock.com

As the 2018 midterm elections approach in the U.S., Google’s power to influence undecided voters remains overshadowed by Facebook’s personal data crisis.

Facebook has “taken it on the chin” for its role in the 2016 presidential election, and organizations like the pol...

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