The word for today is… obfuscate (verb): 1a : to throw into shadow : darken b : to make obscure 2 : confuse 3 : to be evasive, unclear, or confusing Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : To obfuscate something means to make it so that it isn’t clear or transparent, much like dirty water makes
Yu Tao mercatornet.com Yu Tao is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where he teaches contemporary Chinese society, politics, language, and culture. Trained as a political sociologist, Yu’s primary academic mission is to make sense of the social foundations and mechanisms
Alysse ElHage mercatornet.com Alysse ElHage is Editor of the IFS Blog, Family Studies, and a freelance writer. Prior to joining the Institute for Family Studies, she served as associate director of research at the North Carolina Family Policy Council, and as associate editor of Family North Carolina magazine. Children’
Daniel Fitton University of Central Lancashire Daniel Fitton is a Reader in User Experience Design at the University of Central Lancashire where he leads the User Experience Design MSc and MRes courses in addition teaching a range of technical and HCI-related modules. He work within the Child-Computer Interaction (ChiCI) research
Matt Bennett University of Essex Matt Bennett is a Senior Research Officer with the Leverhulme Competition and Competitiveness project at the University of Essex. Squid Game, Netflix’s latest runaway success, has set new records for views and generated a flurry of comment pieces, memes, and moral panic about screen
The word for today is… utmost (adjective, noun): adjective 1 : situated at the farthest or most distant point 2 : of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or amount noun 1 : the most possible : the extreme limit : the highest attainable point or degree 2 : the highest, greatest, or best of
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Bingbing Ge Lancaster University Bingbing Ge is a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and a researcher at the Centre for Family Business. Her research focuses on family business management, entrepreneurship, and strategy. This article contains spoilers for season three of Succession. Succession is back for another series of
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American I think that if there is something we can all agree on is that we do not like it when a referee wants to
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the first of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for dis-harmony. An
The word for today is… adamantine (adjective): 1 : rigidly firm 2 : resembling the diamond in hardness or lustre Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The Greek and Latin word for the hardest imaginable substance, whether applied to a legendary stone or an actual substance, such as diamond, was “adamas.” Latin poets used
“Many people across the United States are despondent about the new president – and the threat to democracy his rise could represent”. In case you were wondering, that’s not Fox News lamenting Joe Biden; it’s The Guardian in 2017, being almost calmly analytical about Donald Trump. But the Grauniad’
The word for today is… jeopardise (verb): : to expose to danger or risk Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Today’s word will get no comment from me, but I don’t expect others will be so restrained. It may be hard to believe that jeopardise was once controversial, but in 1870
Robert Dingwall mercatornet.com Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. “A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) declared that ‘To protect the health, safety and
The word for today is… gasconade (noun): confident talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people. Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The citizens of Gascony in southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging. Their reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as Alexandre Dumas’
Daniel Broby University of Strathclyde Daniel Broby is a leading academic in the field of Financial Technology (Fintech). His research interests focus on crypto-currencies, market operational efficiency and the timestamping of blockchain financial instructions. The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead
