Ranta Images/Shutterstock Shweta Singh, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick During lockdown, my 65-year-old mother did something that actually shocked me. She started going on to TikTok so she could watch and follow her favourite “Dancing Dadi” – which means grandmother in Hindi. I was genuinely taken aback to discover that my mother
A half-century of reproduction rights upended by the Supreme Court. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down
Facts give the lie to Russia’s claim to be defending itself against an expansionist NATO. Moscow has always been the biggest threat to its neighbours, to freedom and to the whole of humanity. The regime of Vladimir Putin spends more than $300 million annually on disseminating its propaganda and disinformation in various languages
In Europe there were 17.5 suicides per 10,000 people in pretrial detention, while the proportion was 8.54 deaths in the rest of the prison population. “There is much sorrow in prison, disguised as hostility. The sorrow is plainly visible even in the most angry faces.” This message was posted on John McAfee’s personal
Diversità ed inclusione: dopo la trasformazione digitale e le politiche di lavoro agile, il terzo fattore di successo che ancora fatica a farsi strada nel mondo aziendale. 1. Introduzione Credo fosse il 2015 quando per la prima volta mi trovai a discutere di trasformazione digitale in un contesto di impresa. L’idea alla base
Diversity & Inclusion: after digital transformation and smart-working policies, the third key success pillar that companies fail to embrace 1. Introduction It was 2015 when I first heard companies discussing digital transformation and how this would have changed their business, with the idea that productivity, efficiency, and sales as a result could leap
What does “autotelic” mean? Literally it means “end in itself,” but what is the real meaning, if we bring it back to our lives? In the context of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s “Flow theory,” someone with an autotelic self tends to appreciate life, derives a pleasure in the absence of extrinsic finality, that is, they
Cosa significa “autotelico”? Letteralmente significa “fine a se stesso”, ma qual è il significato reale, riportato alla nostra vita? Nell’ambito della “teoria del flusso (Flow)” di Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, la persona con un sé autotelico tende ad apprezzare la vita, trae un piacere in assenza di finalità estrinseche, cioè senza preoccuparsi delle ricompense esterne,
On a bright spring afternoon, a group of workers from BlocPower descend the steps behind a four-story apartment building, down into the cramped, musty basement, where the only light is a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. The workers — three of them trainees in a climate-focused workforce development program run by the
La passione per i viaggi suscita la voglia di condividerne le emozioni, le immagini, i racconti di quelle esperienze vissute che li rendono indimenticabili. Ospite di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, è Pietro Regazzoni, ricercatore e scrittore. Il suo libro “Quando passa il treno. La Transmongolica da Mosca