Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Boston University
Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook collect a staggering amount of data points from us, so much data that our social media activity can pretty accurately reveal things from gym habits to the state of our mental well-being.
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- Written by: Eileen Baldry and Chris Cunneen
Reports this week of an Indigenous boy with a disability held naked for days in a Brisbane police cell have once again raised the issue of how best to treat our most vulnerable young offenders, and the impact of their incarceration.
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- Written by: Jodie O'Leary
The abuse inflicted on child detainees at the Don Dale facility in the Northern Territory in Australia has shone a much-needed light on youth justice.
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- Written by: Emily Willingham
A familiar scenario: as part of having your cholesterol checked, your clinician also orders a standard blood panel – a red blood-cell count, and then a breakdown showing the proportions of five types of white blood cells.
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- Written by: Scott Shackelford
High-profile data breaches at companies like British Airways and Marriott get a lot of media coverage, but cybercriminals are increasingly going after community groups, schools, small businesses and municipal governments.
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- Written by: Samuel Lengen
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies to disclose the “true value” of their data to users.
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- Written by: Brave New Films
California’s punishment economy is booming. Every year, state taxpayers spend $20 billion to punish people. That’s more than enough to cover the costs of tuition for every student attending public college in California. And it’s almost three times the state’s public spending on mental health services.
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- Written by: Sara Bannerman
In January 2019, Liberal MP Adam Vaughan argued that privacy concerns about the smart city proposed for Toronto’s waterfront should not be allowed to “reverse 25 years of good, solid work and 40 years of dreaming on the Toronto waterfront.”
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- Written by: Joseph E. Kennedy
In the long-running television drama “Breaking Bad,” viewers watched the moral devolution of Walter White, a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher who tried to provide for the financial future of his family by cooking methamphetamine.
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- Written by: Stephen Groening
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian fiction.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas
The notifications that companies send consumers about data breaches lack clarity and may add to customer confusion about whether their data is at risk, according to new research.
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- Written by: Nicole Feldman
On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal its net neutrality rules, which critics say could make the internet more expensive and less accessible for Americans.
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- Written by: Nicholas Diakopoulos, University of Maryland
In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now drive decision-making in ways that touch our economic, social and civic lives.
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- Written by: Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College
The 2017 Stress in America survey has confirmed it: Americans are officially freaking out.
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- Written by: James Parker
Smart speakers equipped with digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are now the fastest-growing consumer technology since the smartphone.
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- Written by: Molly O'Brien Gluck
What can we do about looming threats to our privacy online and the theft of important personal information? Ari Trachtenberg has some ideas.
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- Written by: Gideon Yaffe
Should being under 18 give youth a discount on the price to pay for their crimes? As a matter of conscience, it should – even kids such as Cunningham deserve a break. In fact, in every mature legal system, age matters
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- Written by: Caroline Brooks
New research digs into the behaviors—both obvious and subtle—that may put you at risk of falling victim to cybercrime involving Trojans, viruses, and malware.
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- Written by: Ivy Brashear
How marginalized groups are working to counteract historical wealth inequality.
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- Written by: Layne Cameron
Hackers are watching you this holiday season, so be as mindful of your phone as of your cash and credit cards.
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- Written by: Taylor Kubota
Researchers have created a new method for keeping private the data that our many devices collect about how we use them.
