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UCLA Launches Global Media Center For Social Impact

The Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA has established an innovative new center to
increase awareness of important health issues and improve the well-being of pe...

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Movies

Gravity Review

The overview effect is described as the phenomenon astronauts experience when looking back at the earth from space. It is described to inspire an enormous sense of awe at t...

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Thought Factory

The Sociology Of The New Paradigm Of Media

The era of fantasy based sensationalized media is slowly being side-lined by a newly mobilized movement that is demanding media that is richer and motivated towards raising...

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Sustainable Development

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

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Health

Common Genes may Underline Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders

A recent study finds that people with alcohol dependence may be genetically susceptible to eating disorders and vice-versa. In a study of nearly 6,000 adult twins, research...

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Environment

The East is grey

China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or po...

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Health

Storytelling as a strong medicine

An article by Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington recently appeared in an issue of Monthly Developments Magazine on on how entertainment ha...

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Alternative Entertainment

Bergman, Sombre or Pragmatic?

Ingmar Bergman prevalently known for his movie ‘Persona’ was considered as the most thoroughgoing in procedure and technique. Classism in the movies came out vo...

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Thought Factory

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."


J.K. Rowling

 


Over the last one century or so, ordin...

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Bollywood

A Muslim in Bollywood

The mainstream Hindi film industry’s template for the community reflects ideological and political shifts in contemporary India.

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