In life, happiness can seem fleeting and elusive, something just out of reach.Steve Corey/flickr, CC BY-NDIn the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with human...
Clinton and Trump.Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of stories related to this week’s presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump gave dueling economic addresses this week, offering contrasting visions of where we are now and where each candidate would like to take us.
Speaking in Warren, Michigan on Aug. 11, Clinton...
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What do students know when they are taking out loans?Tulane Public Relations, CC BYAugust is here, and many families are preparing their children for the next academic challenge – a college education.
By and large, a college degree is viewed as an important credential for gainful employment and professional success. At the same time, college...
Read more: Most students borrow for college, but are they financially literate?
The sounds of the recent military coup will long be remembered by people in Turkey.
Yet as Turks in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other urban centers strained to differentiate the sounds of explosive devices from the sonic booms of F-16s on July 15, 2016, they were most shocked by another sound, at once familiar and deeply startling: the Islamic call...
Read more: Turkey's coup and the call to prayer: Sounds of violence meet Islamic devotionals
The scene in Nice the morning after the July 14 terror attack – during which an emergency-warning app failed to give timely notice.Michel Abada, CC BY-SAWhen a terrorist struck Nice, France, on July 14, a new French government app designed to alert people failed. Three hours passed before SAIP, as the app is called, warned people in and...
Plenty of gold but little growth.Golden dragons via www.shutterstock.comDidi, the Chinese ride-sharing service, did more than run the American ride service, Uber, out of China. In my view, it destroyed the China El Dorado myth.
The El Dorado (“the golden one”) myth referred to a supposed city of gold somewhere in Latin America. Spanish...
Read more: Uber's Didi deal dispels Chinese 'El Dorado' myth once and for all
Volume rendered image of the external morphology of the foot bone shows the extent of expansion of the primary bone cancer beyond the surface of the bone.Patrick Randolph-Quinney (UCLAN)In late July, an international team of researchers announced that they had identified evidence of cancer in the fossilized remains of a biological relative of...
Read more: What can a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil teach us about cancer?
While flossing may not be fun, it is still good for you.From www.shuttertock.com“To floss or not to floss?” has become a big question in the past week. News reports have conflicted, leading to confusion.
First came a story from the Associated Press on Aug. 2 that the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services had droppe...
Read more: The flossing flap: Mind your dentist, and floss every night
Jim Thorpe and Ben Johnson were both banned from the Olympics. But if each had played at different points in history, they would have been allowed to compete. Nick Lehr/The Conversation, CC BY-SATrying to gain an advantage over your opponent is as old as sport itself. But what’s considered fair and unfair is often up for debate.
In cricket,...
The EPA has issued rules to regulate methane emission from new oil and gas wells in the face of industry and political pushback. gas storage via www.shutterstock.comThe Aliso Canyon leak in California earlier this year focused public attention on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas, and...
Read more: Why utilities have little incentive to plug leaking natural gas
