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Why TV is more violent now than ever before (and we love it that way!)
A serial killer drains his victims of blood, chops them into pieces and drops the body parts in the ocean. A horde of hungry zombies rip into the flesh of a wounded victim.
Read moreThe art of reading body language
“You talking to me? You talking to me?
Remember the young Robert de Niro’s famous line in Taxi Driver? Oh, the on-screen menace he conveyed physically,
03.2020 | Athalie Russell Besseling
But like, you know, how did it take over the language?
We all use them… even though we are not specifically aware of doing so.
06.2018 | Peter Dearlove
AI Series: The impact of artificial intelligence on our work identity
The rise of advanced artificial intelligence is real and lurks on the horizon, requiring a significant shift in the way we view ourselves and our place in society.
01.2018 | Barry Morisse
Moral Money Series: An introduction to faith and finance around the world
Religion affects the lives of adherents and non-adherents in very real, very immediate economic ways.
07.2017 | Pete van der Walt
Anger Series: Kids and anger – let’s get them while they’re young
To address issues of violence, we need to start with children, and boys in particular. As social reformer, writer and statesman Frederick Douglass said: “It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
04.2018 | Martin Scheepers
My Special Place Series: Georgina Thomson
Paris and home – two very different places, but both are special places for Georgina Thomson, director of Dance Forum.
01.2018 | Arja Salafranca
The unlikely aesthetic premium that millennials are willing to pay for luxury goods
How millennials rent luxury lifestyles – and savvy brands are cashing in.
07.2017 | Victoria Aadnesgaard
The child-free life and its unexpected dilemmas
Deciding to not reproduce triggers complex and conflicting emotions.
07.2019 | Sylvia Swart
The profit made from war and words
It is in documenting our conflicts that propaganda first began.
06.2018 | Lee Blake
Superhero films − how big genres live and die
Although the superhero genre has been around since the mid-1940s, over the past two decades these films have occupied the top spot among all genres available to us, on the big and small screen alike.
11.2018 | Lee Blake
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