A rural art fair’s grassroots-led, mindful, and immersive travel experience embodies a revitalizing tourism approach that a study found has built community resilience, strengthened local identity, and re-energized daily life in a Japanese island village…
Tokyo(Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet)— Buddhist philosopher and peacebuilder Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), issued his 40th annual peace proposal on January 26, 2022. Titled "Transforming Human History: The Light of Peace and Dignity,"…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News Office)-- Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charts and graphs have helped communicate information about infection rates, deaths, and vaccinations. In some cases, such visualizations can encourage behaviors that reduce virus…
SUZHOU, China (PRNewswire)-- In 2016, China officially pledged that by the end of 2020, it would raise its remaining 832 counties out of extreme poverty – a target reached last November. Last Thursday, China's President Xi Jinping hailed the achievement…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It is no secret that U.S. politics is polarized. An experiment conducted by MIT researchers now shows just how deeply political partisanship directly influences people’s behavior within online social networks. Deploying Twitter bots…
Study shows many kinds of finance-sector failures — not just history’s most famous bank runs — lead to economic downturns. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(MIT News office) -- A banking crisis is often seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy: The…