The last issue of the Venice Biennale magazine, which is eloquently titled 'Anteguerra' ('Prodromes of war') also features a conversation of mine with Matt Leacock, one of today's most brilliant and imaginative game designers.

Drag queenism has got to a whole new level

Turns out Trump is the best possible testimonial for liberal electoral tickets worldwide 🇨🇦🇦🇺

The Complexity Thoughts blog by @manlius.bsky.social is always a no-brainer read (NB: but it needs brains!) for anyone interested in complexity sciences. This time with an extra perk: it's about how to model the dynamics of world order.

Dear Canadians:

consider joining EU instead. 🇪🇺

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout

Why arts and culture are so important for humans (and for the economy) -- no, it's not the reason you think! A 🧵 🧪 1/12

Oggi, come anticipavo ieri, trovate sul Sole 24 Ore una pagina dedicata al rapporto tra cultura e sviluppo, con un mio intervento, uno di Stefano Salis sulla cultura dell'eccellenza manifatturiera italiana, e uno di Carlo Fontana sulle politiche integrate turistico-culturali.

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Domani ci sarà una pagina sul Sole 24 Ore che non vorrete perdervi ;)

Sul Domenicale del Sole 24 Ore di oggi recensisco un importante libro di Andrea Prencipe sull'università. Un 🧵

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Today I will be speaking at the Annual Meeting of Italian Ambassadors at La Triennale Milan. The topic is soft power -- a powerful but elusive concept.

www.gazzettadimilano.it/eventi-e-man...

**New Research: How Fanfiction Communities Mirror Heritage Preservation**

I'm pleased to share our recent paper with Federico Pilati, Antoine Houssard and Maria Tartari published in Convergence.

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Today I am in Milan to discuss how to account for the effectiveness of artistic interventions for health within a psychoneuroendocrineimmunological (PNEI) conceptual framework.

If you are interested in my research, here's my website where you can find all of my recent papers in downloadable form, as well as the work in progress. If you are interested in a paper not published yet feel free to inquire. And if you are into music, check my techno mixes :)

pierluigisacco.eu

Being here feels like starting it all over again, so I'll introduce myself. Economist by training focused upon behavioral science: art and culture as a complex bio-behavioral regulator of health, prosociality, creativity etc. Also computational social science of misinformation & int'l relations.