Who counts as a hero in the 21st century?
How is heroism adapting to an age of nonstop news, hyper-partisanship and intense political scrutiny?
Research I recently conducted with my colleague Krista Jenkins focuses on the evolving profile and significance of U.S. heroism over the past century.
After examining decades of survey...
Protest turned violent on the Berkeley and Middlebury campuses; students shouted down speakers at MacMaster University and UCLA and blocked entry to a talk at Claremont McKenna: These are among the many recent incidents...
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On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round of the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen thundered against her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, declaring, “Nothing in Monsieur Macron’s plan, nor anything in his behavior indicates the least evidence of love for France.”
She went on to invoke his supposed...
Read more: Macron and LePen are battling for France’s heart and soul in election runoff
What can your data tell us?www.shutterstock.comVerily – the life sciences research arm of Google parent company Alphabet – wants to track the health of 10,000 people.
On April 19, the group announced that it was starting to recruit for Project Baseline, in partnership with Duke and Stanford. Over the course of four years, Project...
Read more: Alphabet's new plan to track 10,000 people could take wearables to the next level
Would you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
Would you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...
An alternate choice for unlocking a smartphone.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-NDWould you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “🐱💦🎆🎌,” for example, or...