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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research has discovered that Muslims' so-called "sociocultural attitudes" cannot explain their poor labor market outcomes in the British labor market. …

Margot Robbie will star as Barbie in an upcoming movie from Mattel and Warner Bros.Mattel | Warner Bros.Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz isn't looking to use upcoming theatrical releases just to sell toys. He wants them to stand on their own. Speaking with CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the Evolve Global Summit on Wednesday, Kreiz spoke in depth about the upcoming Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. He called the feature film a "cultural event.""Barbie is very much more than a toy," he said. "And more than a doll. Barbie…

Comedian Rosie Holt came to prominence during lockdown with her online political parodies of Conservative MPs. She grew up in Somerset and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; in 2013 she won the Sitcom Trials: So You Think You Write Funny? award, and she has performed as part of double act with Christian Talbot. She presents the satirical podcast NonCensored. Her new character comedy show Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour is at the Edinburgh festival fringe in August at the Pleasance Courtyard.1. FilmThe…

Catalonia is aiming to build a digital economy space through its metaverse. Catalonia, a northeastern region of Spain is building its own metaverse, as it looks to propel the region to a more digitally aware location. As reported by Cointelegraph who got an exclusive interview with the Catalonian director-general of innovation Daniel Macro, the Catalonian government has been working on this initiative for quite some time. Marco’s comments came during the European Blockchain Convention (EBC) 2022. Marco said the…

The Colombian army released images of one of the world's most valuable shipwrecks, the location of which was unknown for nearly three centuries.Spain's San Jose galleon was loaded with a vast cargo of treasure when it was sunk by British navy ships in 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession.  The ship, a 64-gun galleon with around 600 people on board, is believed to have been carrying at least 200 tons of treasure, including gold coins, silver coins, and emeralds, worth an estimated up to $17 billion at today's…

DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne grew up in Sunderland and started her career as lead singer in the Britpop band Kenickie. In 1998, she moved into broadcasting, with stints on MTV, Channel 4 and Xfm, where she was the first woman to host the station’s breakfast show. She now presents the BBC 6 Music breakfast show and has hosted Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs since 2018. From 22 to 26 June, she will host coverage of the Glastonbury festival on 6 Music and BBC TV. She is married with two sons and lives in London.1.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SCI Honorary Researcher Tally Katz-Gerro co-published a new journal article with Oriel Sullivan in the Journal of Consumer Culture that adds to the literature on cultural stratification by revisiting cultural voraciousness, nearly two decades after it was first introduced as a measure of cultural participation designed to capture inequalities in the pace and variety of cultural activities.…

Century-old plant exudate samples in amber jars. Researchers mapped the chemistries of these samples using high-energy photons. Scientists can analyze other historical artifact chemistries by applying this technique in the future. Credit: Flinders University, South Australia, Kaurna Country For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have created some of the world's most striking artworks. Today their work…

Figure 1: Factors behind cultural preferences (percent) The figure shows the extent to which genetic inheritance, socialization in the family, or factors outside the family explains variance in cultural preferences. While the exact numbers contain some statistical uncertainty, the overall finding is that the social imprint in the family has the least significance. Credit: University of Copenhagen Do you like opera and…