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A telling snapshot from the young life of John Cho. He is at college, majoring in English Literature when a drama company commandeers the campus theatre to mount a production of Woman Warrior, based on the best-selling memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston. There is, however, a caveat. In return for the use of the theatre the production company is required to cast a few college students. Enter Cho, who scores a small role. The die is cast.“It was the first time I met professional Asian actors,” Cho recalls. “Frankly, I didn’t…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of York have discovered why reducing particle pollution is actually increasing surface ozone pollution in some emerging economies, negatively impacting health, ecosystems and agriculture. …

BERLIN—The Group of Seven rich democracies ended their summit with an agreement to discuss a batch of new sanctions against Russia, but the gathering underlined the limits of using economic tools to punish Russia four months after its invasion of Ukraine.While weapons deliveries have made an immediate difference on the battlefield and Ukraine has been clamoring for more equipment to repel Moscow’s forces, sanctions have proven slow to take effect, some of them have backfired against the West, and new ones have so far been…

More people than ever are buying electric vehicles. There are about 2 million EVs on the road in the U.S., up six-fold since 2016, but the number of EVs is still a very small slice of the more than 280 million vehicles in operation. Some factors, such as upfront cost and battery range, are largely manufacturing and innovation challenges being handled inside companies. But another source of consumer resistance opens up a complex set of questions that will need to be addressed on a macro level – the availability of charging…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the days get colder, teachers not only face the usual seasonal battle of keeping classrooms at a comfortable temperature but also trying to reduce the COVID-19 virus count in the environment. How to reduce virus spread is important knowledge for teachers—just as it was a century ago when the 1918 flu pandemic hit.…

Credit: © APChanel, Shutterstock Connected and fully automated vehicles are set to revolutionize transportation as we know it. Thanks to 5G-enabled vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, which makes it possible for vehicles to communicate with one another and their surroundings, we can look forward to a future with safer roads and more efficient traffic. However, there is still work to be done at border crossings that…

Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images The director of the upcoming Pet Sematary prequel film, Lindsey Beer, is set to reboot the classic horror story Sleepy Hollow for Paramount. Beer is credited as a writer on a number of upcoming projects including the Star Trek sequel, a Hello Kitty movie, and the remake of Disney’s Bambi. The specific story details are still under wraps but the original gothic tale is about a headless horseman who terrorizes a small town. Tim Burton directed probably the most famous iteration…

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have experienced a rise up the Hollywood ladder that could understandably be described as being equal parts rapid and remarkable, especially when you consider they were almost complete unknowns as recently as a couple of years ago. Having experienced plenty of acclaim and success in their native Belgium, the close friends and collaborators made the jump to Hollywood in spectacular style with Bad Boys for Life, which went down as the…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Workplace bullying has always been a problem but recognition of this problem and how we must stand up to it and try to eradicate it from the workplace culture has only come to the fore in recent years. A conceptual review in the International Journal of Management Practice looks at the issues, the terminology, and the definitions with the aim of helping researchers fill the many gaps in the…