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/ 2 years agoRight-to-charge laws bring the promise of EVs to apartments, condos and rentals
Illinois passed the latest law requiring new apartment buildings to be wired for EV chargers. Now apartment communities are figuring out...
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/ 2 years agoSouth Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world – and that doesn’t bode well for its economy
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered....
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/ 2 years agoCOVID-19 hurt kids’ math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020
A new analysis of standardized test scores from elementary schools in Michigan pinpoints when during the pandemic students fell most behind.
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/ 2 years agoStates are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce
Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
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/ 2 years agoBMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place
Overreliance on BMI as a measure of weight and health has deepened inequities and led to inaccuracies and overgeneralizations.
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/ 2 years agoTaking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
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/ 2 years agoDo you crush microbes when you step on them?
You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It...
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/ 2 years agoAsian folktales offer moral lessons that help reduce racial prejudice in children
Children’s books that feature Asian protagonists are rare. Two scholars decided to offer their own in their attempt to reduce racial...
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/ 2 years agoSupreme Court is not committed to a major innovation in transparency it started during the pandemic
The Supreme Court has not yet committed to making livestreaming oral arguments a permanent part of its work. But this measure...
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/ 2 years agoWagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted march on...
