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/ 1 year agoOften in error but still seductive: Why we can’t quit election polls
The unusual candidacy of former President Donald Trump has made election polling especially appealing, more than a year from the election....
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/ 1 year agoHealth on the ballot as Argentina poised to elect ‘anarcho-capitalist’ bent on slashing social protections
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find...
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/ 1 year agoCalling the war in Ukraine a ‘tragedy’ shelters its perpetrators from blame and responsibility
Calling something a ‘tragedy’ serves to minimize human responsibility for its causes, which can be convenient for the people who are...
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/ 1 year agoWhy are thousands of Kaiser health care workers on strike? 5 questions answered
Workers are objecting to staffing levels they say endanger patient care and are refusing their employer’s offer that includes raises that...
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/ 1 year agoLego’s ESG dilemma: Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic bottles is a wake-up call for supply chain sustainability
Corporate supply chains are riddled with high, uncounted emissions, as Lego discovered. New regulations mean more companies will face tough, sometimes...
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/ 1 year agoWhat today’s labor leaders can learn from the explosive rise and quick fall of the typesetters union
History suggests that there’s risk of overplaying one’s hand when new technology is lurking.
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/ 1 year ago2 in 5 US babies benefit from the WIC nutrition program
Funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children quickly halts during government shutdowns.
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/ 1 year agoWhat live theater can learn from Branson, Missouri
Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss...
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/ 1 year agoThe ‘Zoom effect’ and the possible link between videochatting and appearance dissatisfaction
With our faces seemingly everywhere − from Zoom meetings to selfies − more people are developing anxieties about how they appear...
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court is increasingly putting Christians’ First Amendment rights ahead of others’ dignity and rights to equal protection
Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups...
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/ 1 year agoThe splendid life of Jimmy Carter – 5 essential reads
Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human...
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/ 1 year agoHow a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago
Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George de Hevesy’s research...
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/ 1 year agoClimate change is a fiscal disaster for local governments − our study shows how it’s testing communities in Florida
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
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/ 1 year agoMillions of US children have mediocre reading skills, but engaged parents and a committed school curriculum can help
Low levels of literacy cost the US more than $2 trillion every year.
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/ 1 year agoQuantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in useful ways – Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology
Quantum dots are a prime example of the way nanotechnology engineers materials at an atomic scale.
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/ 1 year agoOuster of Speaker McCarthy highlights House Republican fractures in an increasingly polarized America
Long gridlocked by fighting between the two major political parties, the US House is now split by conflict within the GOP,...
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/ 1 year agoThe Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet
Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much...
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/ 1 year agoMaking ‘movies’ at the attosecond scale helps researchers better understand electrons − and could one day lead to super-fast electronics
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics recognized researchers studying electron movement in real time − this work could revolutionize electronics, laser...
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/ 1 year agoChina’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design
The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness”...
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/ 1 year agoCell death is essential to your health − an immunologist explains when cells decide to die with a bang or take their quiet leave
Your cells die to keep you alive. Cell death does everything from fighting cancer cells and pathogens to forming your fingers...
