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| Encourage wealthy and well-connected to use their influence to tackle climate change Posted: 30 Sep 2021 08:11 AM PDT A paper article identifies five ways that people of high socioeconomic status have a disproportionate impact on global greenhouse gas emissions - and therefore an outsized responsibility to facilitate progress in climate change mitigation. |
| How a committed minority can change society Posted: 30 Sep 2021 07:14 AM PDT How do social conventions change? Robotic engineers and marketing scientists joined forces to study this phenomenon, combining online experiments and statistical analysis into a mathematical model that shows how a committed minority can influence the majority to overturn long-standing practices. |
| Getting beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers Posted: 30 Sep 2021 07:14 AM PDT People benefit from deep and meaningful conversations that help us forge connections with one another, but we often stick to small talk with strangers because we underestimate how much others are interested in our lives and wrongly believe that deeper conversations will be more awkward and less enjoyable than they actually are, according to new research. |
| Groundwater markets could promote solutions to the West’s water woes Posted: 29 Sep 2021 09:58 AM PDT Amid historic drought and changing rainfall patterns, a groundwater market in the California desert could serve as a template for the future of water management. |
| Maya rulers put their personal stamp on monumental complexes Posted: 21 Sep 2021 10:43 AM PDT Early Maya cities featured monumental complexes, which centered on a shared form of religion but these complexes transformed radically once kingship emerged in 400 B.C. To solidify their power, rulers throughout the Maya lowlands would change these complexes, installing their mark on the landscape and reshaping how people remember it, according to a new study. |
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