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/ 5 months agoA bipartisan data-privacy law could backfire on small businesses − 2 marketing professors explain why
Privacy comes at a price.
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/ 5 months ago3 strategies to help college students pick the right major the first time around and avoid some big hassles
Changing majors can cost money and time. Doing career-related research early on can help college students avoid that fate.
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/ 5 months agoWhy is an ultimate goal called a ‘Holy Grail?’
Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the...
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/ 5 months agoCould dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world? A paleontologist explains
It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who...
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/ 5 months agoAt its core, life is all about play − just look at the animal kingdom
Reduced to its essence, the process of natural selection would look a lot like play.
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/ 5 months agoIf you want Americans to pay attention to climate change, just call it climate change
Phrases like ‘climate crisis,’ ‘climate emergency’ or ‘climate justice’ might seem to escalate the urgency, but a large survey shows they...
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/ 5 months agoWagner Group setback in Mali challenges Moscow’s strategy in Africa and the region’s faith in Russian mercenaries
Dozens of Russian fighters were killed in confrontation with rebel groups in Mali amid speculation that Ukrainian intelligence played a role.
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/ 5 months agoRat poison is moving up through food chains, threatening carnivores around the world
Modern rodenticides can kill rats with a single dose and readily pass up the food chain to larger carnivores. They are...
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/ 5 months agoA packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transit
When US cities offered low-cost, high-quality public transit during World War II, buses and trains were full. Some cities are trying...
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/ 5 months agoHow San Francisco’s Democratic political machine led to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign
Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking and profane political mastermind first...
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/ 5 months agoDespite Donald Trump’s claims, his gag order holds up against the Constitution
While the First Amendment protects a wide range of different kinds of speech, there is no fundamental right to cause harm.
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/ 5 months agoThe problem with pronatalism: Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme
Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and...
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/ 5 months agoNo credit score? A grocery list could be the next best thing
What you buy at the grocery store can predict whether you pay your credit card bills on time, new research suggests.
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/ 5 months agoDealing with election anxiety? A psychiatrist explains how to channel your fears and break out of tribal thinking
The human tendency to form group affiliations and vilify outsiders can help ramp up your anxiety during a contentious election cycle....
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/ 5 months agoInfectious diseases spike when kids return to school − here’s what you can do about it
Proper hygiene, vaccinations and healthy habits can all reduce the spread of diseases in school.
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/ 5 months agoThe real ‘Big Bang’ of country music: How Vernon Dalhart’s 1924 breakthrough recordings launched a genre
A musicologist explains how an oft-forgotten opera, pop and jazz singer from New York City launched the country music industry a...
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/ 5 months agoThis anthropology course looks at building design from the standpoint of different species
Humans aren’t the only species to consider when constructing new buildings. This course teaches students to take animals into account as...
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/ 5 months agoParis Games herald a new anti-corruption era, but carrying the torch may pose an Olympic challenge for the US
France’s distinctive anti-corruption legal framework made possible an Olympics free from major corruption scandals.
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/ 5 months agoHow do breakdancers avoid breaking their necks?
A term emerged in the 1980s for a spinal cord injury caused by breaking called ‘break-dancing neck.’
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/ 5 months agoFrom Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
