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The study suggests that local inequality is associated with increased generosity among rich people in both places, which is contrary to findings at more aggregated geographical levels, pointing to contrasting implications of inequality at different spatial levels. Credit: Alexander Grey, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Rich individuals living in communities with greater levels of economic inequality…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Before the pandemic, online grocery shopping was typically something younger and more affluent people living in cities indulged in. When COVID hit, though, the market exploded. In the first week of the first UK lockdown, demand for Ocado home deliveries was reportedly ten times higher than it had…

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is running for president of the United States on a record of anti-diversity, pro-censorship, white nationalist measures. He has targeted education, LGBTQ rights and access to health care, and should he prevail, his anti-science candidacy stands to harm millions of Americans. DeSantis has banned books in school libraries, restricted teachers’ classroom discussions about diversity, prohibited high school classes that focus on Black history and people, politicized college curricula,…

Academic science was not built for marginalized people. People of color (especially Black and Indigenous scientists), people of marginalized genders (including women, nonbinary and transgender folks), queer scientists, disabled people, and those coming from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background have historically been excluded from research by those with power and privilege. This particularly applies to scientists who occupy the intersection of two or more of these identities—like me. I am a queer and non-binary…

Daron Acemoglu, left, and Simon Johnson are the authors of the new book, “Power and Progress: Our 1000-year Struggle over Technology & Prosperity.” Credit: Acemoglu photo by Jared Charney. Johnson photo by MIT Sloan The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a time of profound…

A study by the University of Southampton and Oxford, analyzing over 200,000 working-age adults, has found that individuals in the most socioeconomically deprived areas are 46% more likely to suffer from long COVID than those in the least deprived regions.A recent study conducted by the Universities of Southampton and Oxford reveals a strong correlation between the incidence of long COVID and the level of area-specific deprivation. It found that individuals from the most deprived regions are 46 percent more likely to…

Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock)Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechOn November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGPT, making the latest generation of AI technologies widely available. In the few months since then, we have seen Italy ban ChatGTP over privacy concerns, leading technology luminaries calling for a pause on AI systems development, and even prominent researchers saying we should be prepared to launch airstrikes on data centres associated with rogue AI.The rapid deployment of AI and its potential…

Credit: Shutterstock On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGTP, making the latest generation of AI technologies widely available. In the few months since then, we have seen Italy ban ChatGTP over privacy concerns, leading technology luminaries calling for a pause on AI systems development, and even prominent researchers saying we should be prepared to launch airstrikes on data centres associated with rogue…

Although younger couples tend to share household labour more equitably, women still take on the bulk of home and family responsibilities. Credit: Shutterstock The switch to remote work because of the COVID-19 pandemic required dual-career couples to adapt to a new way of life. As work and domestic responsibilities blurred, couples attempted to balance work and family life at home. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Afro-Latino population in the U.S. has grown at nearly twice the rate of non-Black Latinos since the beginning of the century, and new UCLA research reveals complex social inequalities faced by Afro-Latinos—people who are both ethnically Latino and racially Black. Despite having higher educational attainment than non-Black Latinos, Afro-Latinos face worse outcomes in key areas including…