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Family meals are good for the grown-ups, too, not just the kids

  • Written by Anne Fishel, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
imageMoms and dads have better physical and mental health when they dine with their children – despite all the work of a family meal.Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images

For all the parents feeling exhausted by the cooking, cleaning and planning of a million meals during the pandemic, there’s some good news. Commensality, or the...

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From tulips and scrips to bitcoin and meme stocks – how the act of speculating became a financial mania

  • Written by Gayle Rogers, Professor and chair of English, University of Pittsburgh
imageFinancial bubbles are frequently depicted as manias. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing market went wild.

Today, there are manias in everything from bitcoin and nonfungible tokens to SPACs and meme stocks – obscure corners of the market that are...

Read more: From tulips and scrips to bitcoin and meme stocks – how the act of speculating became a financial...

How to tell if your college is trans-inclusive

  • Written by Abbie Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Clark University
imageAn affirming college environment can set trans youth on a path of personal, academic and professional success.Alessandra Tarantino/AP

High school can be especially challenging for the 2%-3% of U.S. teens who identify as transgender, or trans. They disproportionately experience harassment and victimization by their peers and rejection by family...

Read more: How to tell if your college is trans-inclusive

The 'bystander effect' is real -- but research shows that when more people witness violence, it's more likely someone will step up and intervene

  • Written by Wayne Eastman, Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers University
imageAn image from a police body camera shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier, third from right, filming a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck.Minneapolis Police Department via AP, File

The most powerful evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Derek Chauvin was a video showing the then-Minneapolis police...

Read more: The 'bystander effect' is real -- but research shows that when more people witness violence, it's...

82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as popular as chocolate

  • Written by Chris Knoester, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University
imageMost U.S. parents who take time off work to tend to newborns currently use unpaid leave.Whitney Curti/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-SA

The United States is the only wealthy nation that doesn’t guarantee paid leave to mothers after they give birth or adopt a child. The vast majority of Americans would like to see that change.

Accord...

Read more: 82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as popular as chocolate

Watching a coral reef die as climate change devastates one of the most pristine tropical island areas on Earth

  • Written by Sam Purkis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Miami

The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain.

It’s a paradise. At least it was...

Read more: Watching a coral reef die as climate change devastates one of the most pristine tropical island...

No, los efectos secundarios de las vacunas no son una señal de que tu sistema inmunitario te protegerá mejor

  • Written by Robert Finberg, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
imageNo se puede medir la eficacia de la vacuna en el organismo basándose en lo que se puede detectar desde el exterior.Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Si a alguien le duele la cabeza o se siente indispuesto después de recibir la vacuna COVID-19, es habitual oírle decir algo como “Oh, esto significa que mi sistema...

Read more: No, los efectos secundarios de las vacunas no son una señal de que tu sistema inmunitario te...

State lawsuits over stimulus tax rule face uphill battle

  • Written by Jonathan Entin, Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
imageVice President Kamala Harris speaks at an American Rescue Plan virtual briefing on March 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

States were told by the federal government that they can’t use pandemic relief funds passed by Congress in March to lower taxes. In response, 16 states have filed lawsuits challenging the...

Read more: State lawsuits over stimulus tax rule face uphill battle

#MeToo on TikTok: Teens use viral trend to speak out about their sexual harassment experiences

  • Written by Christia Spears Brown, Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
imageGirls face lasting negative effects of sexual harassment.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

A recent TikTok video that has been liked by almost half a million people encourages girls to record themselves putting one finger down for every time they have been sent unsolicited dick pics, begged for nudes, catcalled, repeatedly asked out after already...

Read more: #MeToo on TikTok: Teens use viral trend to speak out about their sexual harassment experiences

The Pilgrims' attack on a May Day celebration was a dress rehearsal for removing Native Americans

  • Written by Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageThe Puritans saw May Day celebrations as a test from God.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ever since the ancient Romans decided to honor the agricultural goddess Flora with lewd spectacles in the Circus Maximus, the beginning of May has signaled the coming of spring, a time of revival after a long, dark winter.

In...

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  1. How Biden's paid leave proposal would benefit workers, their families and their employers too
  2. People have had a hard time weighing pandemic risks because they haven't gotten information they needed when they needed it
  3. Biden gives Congress his vision to 'win the 21st century' – scholars react
  4. Measuring a president's first 100 days goes back to the New Deal
  5. Going back to the office? The colder temperature could lead to weight gain
  6. Internships in Congress overwhelmingly go to white students
  7. What’s a capital gain and how is it taxed?
  8. Shhhh, they're listening – inside the coming voice-profiling revolution
  9. Feminism's legacy sees college women embracing more diverse sexuality
  10. Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers
  11. Space tourism – 20 years in the making – is finally ready for launch
  12. Scarred by Zika and fearing new COVID-19 variants, Brazilian women say no to another pandemic pregnancy
  13. Why states didn't go broke from the pandemic
  14. Wind farms bring windfalls for rural schools, but school finance laws limit how money is spent
  15. How a professor learned to bring compassion to engineering and design
  16. Cancel culture looks a lot like old-fashioned church discipline
  17. Ancient Christian thinkers made a case for reparations that has striking relevance today
  18. Airbnb hosts, Uber drivers and waiters who are more politically conservative get slightly higher ratings and tips
  19. If China's middle class continues to thrive and grow, what will it mean for the rest of the world?
  20. Numbers can trip you up during the pandemic – here are 4 tips to help you figure out tricky stats
  21. Arbor Day should be about growing trees, not just planting them
  22. FBI reaches out to Hasidic Jews to fight antisemitism – but bureau has fraught history with Judaism
  23. FTC warns the AI industry: Don't discriminate, or else
  24. Census results shift political power in Congress, presidential elections
  25. Trans youth are coming out and living in their gender much earlier than older generations
  26. QAnon hasn't gone away – it's alive and kicking in states across the country
  27. The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach?
  28. How do people make paper out of trees, and why not use something else?
  29. How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow
  30. How Biden's request for more education funding would shift more power to the federal government
  31. US landmarks bearing racist and Colonial references are renamed to reflect Indigenous values
  32. Restart of the Johnson Johnson COVID-19 vaccine: A doctor explains why benefits far outweigh risks
  33. Warp drives: Physicists give chances of faster-than-light space travel a boost
  34. This supermoon has a twist – expect flooding, but a lunar cycle is masking effects of sea level rise
  35. How Richard Nixon's obsession with Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers sowed the seeds for the president's downfall
  36. Asian American young adults are the only racial group with suicide as their leading cause of death, so why is no one talking about this?
  37. GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia
  38. For Vladimir Putin and other autocrats, ruthlessly repressing the opposition is often a winning way to stay in power
  39. ¿Aumento o pérdida de peso no deseado durante la pandemia? El estrés podría tener la culpa
  40. Declaring racism a public health crisis brings more attention to solving long-ignored racial gaps in health
  41. New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?
  42. The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer's trial
  43. Why corporate America appears to be drifting away from the Republican Party
  44. Money alone can't fix Central America – or stop migration to US
  45. Best schools often out of reach for disadvantaged students in choice programs
  46. You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences
  47. Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
  48. What Homer's 'Odyssey' can teach us about reentering the world after a year of isolation
  49. Shakespeare's musings on religion are like curious whispers – they require deep listening to be heard
  50. Do you really need to drink 8 glasses of water a day? An exercise scientist explains why your kidneys say 'no'