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My Farm Is My Stage: Insights into Estonian Rural Tourism
Ester Bardone is a researcher at the Department of Ethnology of the UT Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts. Recently she defended her thesis, “My Farm is My Stage: A Performance Perspective...
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How Understanding Our Mobility Makes Societies Smarter
Olle Järv is a human geographer who recently defended his PhD thesis entitled “Mobile phone-based data in human travel behaviour studies: New insights from a longitudinal perspective“, earning a joint...
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How Selective Is Your Attention?
Why do we notice a remarkably beautiful person in a crowd, or pay attention to the sound of screeching car brakes cutting through the noise of traffic? Why do we notice a remarkably beautiful person...
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Attitudes That Matter
Uku Tooming holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Tartu. His doctoral thesis examines the communicative significance of beliefs and desires. It often matters to us what other people believe...
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A Discovery Puts the Brakes on a Cancer-Inducing Virus
“Almost everyone becomes infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) during their lifetime, but in many cases it happens in a relatively harmless way. Often the symptoms never manifest at all”, says Mart...
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How Lyudmyla leads semiotic research in a Moscow agency
Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems (e.g., languages, music, advertising, road signs, etc.). It is an investigation into how meaning is created and how meaning is communicated through...
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What Belarusian people joke about
Anastasiya Fiadotava. Image from a personal archive Some nations and ethnic groups are famous for their jokes all over the world (Who doesn’t know a good Jewish joke?). Other people’s humour is less...
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