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/ 1 year ago70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of...
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/ 1 year agoWhy does Claudine Gay still work at Harvard after being forced to resign as its president? She’s got tenure
Barring evidence of moral turpitude or excessive absenteeism, former administrators are very hard to force out.
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/ 1 year agoLiterature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care
While medical school may teach students about how the body works, it often neglects the social, political and cultural factors that...
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/ 1 year agoWhat is resilience? A psychologist explains the main ingredients that help people manage stress
Supportive relationships, economic stability and exercise are among the building blocks that develop resilience.
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/ 1 year agoThe US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter
China has a lot of vacant retail space, including many underused shopping malls. An urban policy scholar describes how the Chinese...
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/ 1 year agoTrump’s Iowa political organizing this year is nothing like his scattershot 2016 campaign
Donald Trump’s Iowa caucus campaign is very nuts-and-bolts. That may be a recognition that celebrity will only take him so far...
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/ 1 year agoWith higher fees and more ads, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu are cashing in by using the old tactics of cable TV
Like their cable predecessors, streaming companies have lured customers in with low rates and promises of a better viewing experience. Now...
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/ 1 year ago‘Designated contrarians’ could improve nonprofit boards by disrupting the kind of consensus and groupthink that contributed to the NRA’s woes
A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the...
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/ 1 year ago2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel
What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge...
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/ 1 year agoThe chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains
These tiny songbirds have extraordinary memories for the tens of thousands of spots where they hide food. But that doesn’t help...
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/ 1 year agoHow the Iowa caucuses became the first major challenge of US presidential campaigns
A political scientist traces the development of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and how the small, rural state became influential in presidential...
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/ 1 year agoPundits: Central to democracy, or partisan spewers of opinion who destroy trust
Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more...
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/ 1 year agoFocus on right now, not the distant future, to stay motivated and on track to your long-term health goals
Long-term goals can be hard to stick to if the benefits are only way off in the future. Research suggests ways...
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/ 1 year agoDrugs of the future will be easier and faster to make, thanks to mRNA − after researchers work out a few remaining kinks
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the promise of using mRNA as medicine. But before mRNA drugs can go beyond vaccines, researchers need...
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/ 1 year agoSeeing the human in every patient − from biblical texts to 21st century relational medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide...
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/ 1 year agoSchool board members could soon be blocked from blocking people − and deleting their comments − on social media
A law scholar examines a pair of cases that pit free speech rights against politicians’ online prerogatives.
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/ 1 year agoStories about war, violence and hate crime can cause anxiety, anger and depression in kids — here’s how to discuss bad news with your children
Talking about violence with teens and tweens is very different from the conversation you’ll have with younger children.
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/ 1 year agoWe used AI and satellite imagery to map ocean activities that take place out of sight, including fishing, shipping and energy development
A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.
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/ 1 year agoWorkers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to get hurt than older employees
Better training and supervision make younger workers less vulnerable to injuries.
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/ 1 year agoRadiation therapy takes advantage of cancer’s poor DNA repair abilities – an oncologist and physicist explain how
Radiotherapy takes many forms: from directing powerful high-energy beams toward specific areas of the body to placing radioactive seeds right next...
