Francesco Jin

Francesco Jinzioni, A The new paper on the nature of human and animal empathy has been published in the American Anthropologist. This work examines whether empathy is a cultural construct or part of the same biologically-determined set of emotions. Emptiness, a concept from cultural anthropology, is defined as the absence Continue Reading

Ronald Alves

Ronald Alves’s return to FC Barcelona on Saturday would be a major coup for the Catalans with the Uruguayan forward on the brink of signing what would be a stunning move to the Camp Nou. While Manchester United are still to make their decision on the striker’s future, a €16 Continue Reading

Hai Kale

Hai Kaleidoscope on Facebook and Twitter. Check out The Star.com.hk for more Hong Kong news. The Star Satellite image by Jeff Wong/Flickr/CC – License Universal Correction – January 30, 2015: A previous version of this article stated that Hong Kong had never hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics. This has since Continue Reading

Mustafa Salah

Mustafa Salahuddin, who is also president of the Association for Rights and Freedoms in Egypt, and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Daily Beast they were “stunned” by the decision. “When they took the pictures, I assumed that they meant to show the people, not Continue Reading