Coca-Cola's biggest challenge in greening its operations is its own global marketing strategy

Coca-Cola has made ambitions climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.

Bart Elmore, Professor of History, The Ohio State University • conversation
May 23, 2023 ~9 min

ChatGPT-powered Wall Street: The benefits and perils of using artificial intelligence to trade stocks and other financial instruments

Wall Street’s history of embracing high-speed algorithmic trading suggests ChatGPT will pose similar – if bigger – risks to financial markets.

Pawan Jain, Assistant Professor of Finance, West Virginia University • conversation
May 18, 2023 ~11 min


There’s more to adaptive clothing than function

Retailers of adaptive clothing must make changes to satisfy an increasingly diverse customer base, a new study finds.

Courtney Perrett - U. Missouri • futurity
March 21, 2023 ~6 min

Those breezy TV drug ads? Take ’em with a grain of salt

Direct-to-consumer advertising works at selling drugs. A new study shows, though, that it may not work so well at promoting treatments that are significantly better than other options.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 1, 2023 ~9 min

Scarcity marketing puts a jump in demand

"Get it before it's gone!" type scarcity marketing works for beer companies in Japan, research finds.

Olivia Hall-Syracuse • futurity
Feb. 27, 2023 ~4 min

Two years after its historic deep freeze, Texas is increasingly vulnerable to cold snaps – and there are more solutions than just building power plants

Texas wasn’t prepared to keep the lights on during Winter Storm Uri, and it won’t be ready for future cold weather unless it starts thinking about energy demand as well as supply.

Matthew Skiles, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin • conversation
Feb. 10, 2023 ~13 min

Audio product recommendations may work better

In experiments, audio recommendations for products like brownies, blenders, and beer were more influential than textual ones.

Stanford • futurity
Jan. 24, 2023 ~7 min

Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds

The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors and consumers – a black-market industry worth millions of dollars.

David Maimon, Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University • conversation
Dec. 2, 2022 ~7 min


Climate change: carbon offsetting isn't working – here's how to fix it

Carbon offsetting is often met with scepticism, but a new report suggests that if correctly designed it can be an important part of the net zero transition.

Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds • conversation
Nov. 7, 2022 ~8 min

Why the 'energy price cap' is confusing – and how it could be better communicated

There never was a ‘maximum bill of £2,500’.

Lorraine Whitmarsh, Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Bath • conversation
Oct. 14, 2022 ~6 min

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