A new study of online social forums indicates the online tool is likely valuable to helping students succeed in collegiate physics courses. Researchers found that when the online forum showed denser ...

Before there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it’s notable that one top forum software provider, NodeBB, is now joining the ...

On the surface, things look very good. Trees are covering more and more areas. In pictures from above, the Himalayan valleys are green, two-thirds forest. But 90 per cent are conifers. Below them ...

From Brexit to Bernie Sanders, people and politicians have been wrestling with the idea that the economic and political systems in the West only work for a few. That’s the idea that, 15 years ago, ...

This pretty much captures the spirit that dominated the first US Social Forum, held in Atlanta June 27-July 1. Having appropriately fine-tuned the World Social Forum motto to fit the host country ...

Organisers of the World Social Forum 2024 Nepal discuss updates and logistics of the event. Photo: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2024 NEPAL / X About 30,000 participants from Nepal and across the world will be ...

Last month, over a thousand trade unionists, human rights activists, students, miners, environmentalists, artists, left thinkers and journalists gathered on a campus in the heart of Moscow. It was ...

Ashley Smith and Eric Ruder report from Quebec on the latest gathering of labor, social movement and left-wing activists as the WSF turned 15 years old. THOUSANDS ATTENDED the World Social Forum (WSF) ...

In many years of social activism, the World Social Forum (WSF) held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on 23-28 January 2003 was the first event of its kind I had ever attended. On its eve, preceding the formal ...

It was awesome to see 10,000-plus activists all under one roof at the recent U.S. Social Forum in Detroit as part of rebuilding the left. The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit has highlighted crucial ...

Like the earlier forums, the one in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) will engage social movements, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academics, activists and others who question the economic ...