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The 4 biggest gift-giving mistakes, according to a consumer psychologist

  • Written by Julian Givi, Assistant Professor of Marketing, West Virginia University
imageIf only little Gregory got a gift card ...Philipp Nemenz/The Image Bank via Getty Images

A good gift can elicit a surge of happiness and gratitude in the recipient. It also feels great to give, with psychologists finding that the joy of giving a gift is more pronounced than the pleasure of receiving one.

Unfortunately, there are times when you...

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How fake foreign news fed political fervor and led to the American Revolution

  • Written by Jordan Taylor, Adjunct Instructor in History, Indiana University
imageAn 1877 print called 'Concord - The First Blow For Liberty,' showing American patriots going off to fight the British on April 19, 1775.Print Collector/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Misinformation is often at the root of political extremism. During the 2022 United States midterm election, some of the most radical politicians in the Republican Party...

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Jobs are up! Wages are up! So why am I as an economist so gloomy?

  • Written by Edouard Wemy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Clark University
imageWhy so sad, George?Chuck Savage via Getty Images

In any other time, the jobs news that came down on Dec. 2, 2022, would be reason for cheer.

The U.S. added 263,000 nonfarm jobs in November, leaving the unemployment rate at a low 3.7%. Moreover, wages are up – with average hourly pay jumping 5.1% compared with a year earlier.

So why am I not...

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Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on campuses – and courts are deciding

  • Written by Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
imagePeople walk by the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Disputes over religious freedom and LGBTQ rights in the United States have led to some of the most high-profile judicial controversies – and 2022 is no exception. For example, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 5, 2022, about whether a designer...

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Nurses' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination for their children are highly influenced by partisanship, a new study finds

  • Written by Filip Viskupič, Assistant Professor of Political Science, South Dakota State University
imageAs of Nov. 30, 2022, 62.5% of children and adolescents are unvaccinated against COVID-19.South_agency/E+ via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Children of nurses who identify as Republican are less likely to receive a COVID-19 vaccination compared with children of nurses who identify as...

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Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear – but the ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science

  • Written by Nancy S. Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageBrain-computer interfaces raise many ethical questions about how and whether they should be used for certain applications.Wenjin Chen/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain. With training, the soldier...

Read more: Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off...

Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds

  • Written by Christian Jordan Howell, Assistant Professor in Cybercrime, University of South Florida
imageHackers are just one part of a supply chain in a multimillion-dollar black market for stolen data.Peach_iStock via Getty Images

It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain...

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Protecting 30% of Earth's surface for nature means thinking about connections near and far

  • Written by Veronica Frans, PhD Student in Fisheries & Wildlife and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior, Michigan State University
imageRed knots stop to feed along the Delaware shore as they migrate from the high Arctic to South America.Gregory Breese, USFWS/Flickr

A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and...

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Student 'slave auctions' illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of domination and subjugation in US schools

  • Written by Barbara Harris Combs, Professor and Chair Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
imageA depiction of an auction where an enslaved person is sold.Getty Images

In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the remainder of their games for the same reason. Players on both teams participated in troublesome acts of racism.

In October 2022, Amador High School in Sutter Creek ended its season after...

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3 ways cryptocurrency is changing the way colleges do business with students and donors

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageUniversities are seeking to boost bottom lines and personal connections with cryptocurrencies.Irina Marchenko/iStock via Getty Images

Until about 2020, universities used cryptocurrencies only to pay ransoms to criminals attacking their networks. A fast payment to criminals helped victim universities restore their networks quickly.

With increasing...

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  2. Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed
  3. EU plans to set up a new court to prosecute Russia's war on Ukraine – but there's a mixed record on holding leaders like Putin accountable for waging wars
  4. Twitter lifted its ban on COVID misinformation – research shows this is a grave risk to public health
  5. How parents can play a key role in the prevention and treatment of teen mental health problems
  6. Who's giving Americans spiritual care? As congregational attendance shrinks, it's often chaplains
  7. Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California
  8. Resounding success of 'Black Panther' franchise says little about the dubious state of Black film
  9. Healthy democracy requires trust -- these 3 things could start to restore voters' declining faith in US elections
  10. Protests in China are not rare -- but the current unrest is significant
  11. Ancient DNA from the teeth of 14th-century Ashkenazi Jews in Germany already included genetic variations common in modern Jews
  12. Oath Keepers convictions shed light on the limits of free speech – and the threat posed by militias
  13. Where Mauna Loa’s lava is coming from – and why Hawaii’s volcanoes are different from most
  14. Pregnancy is a genetic battlefield – how conflicts of interest pit mom's and dad's genes against each other
  15. What's a polycule? An expert on polyamory explains
  16. Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike
  17. Sci-fi books for young readers often omit children of color from the future
  18. Black Twitter's expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism
  19. Fatherhood changes men's brains, according to before-and-after MRI scans
  20. More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause
  21. Even weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide – we tracked 30 years of them using currents
  22. A sampler of our most popular articles of 2022
  23. White landowners in Hawaii imported Russian workers in the early 1900s, to dilute the labor power of Asians in the islands
  24. Alabama’s execution problems are part of a long history of botched lethal injections
  25. 'Y'all,' that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it's about time
  26. Is China ready to lead on protecting nature? At the upcoming UN biodiversity conference, it will preside and set the tone
  27. Graphene is a proven supermaterial, but manufacturing the versatile form of carbon at usable scales remains a challenge
  28. Still recovering from COVID-19, US public transit tries to get back on track
  29. We're decoding ancient hurricanes' traces on the sea floor – and evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is not good news for the coast
  30. This course takes a broad look at failure – and what we can all learn when it occurs
  31. How can you tell if something is true? Here are 3 questions to ask yourself about what you see, hear and read
  32. Celebrities in politics have a leg up, but their advantages can't top fundraising failures
  33. Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the brain – podcast
  34. Rampage at Virginia Walmart follows upward trend in supermarket gun attacks – here's what we know about retail mass shooters
  35. Wilma Mankiller, first female principal chief of Cherokee Nation, led with compassion and continues to inspire today
  36. What is ethical animal research? A scientist and veterinarian explain
  37. Scientists discover five new species of black corals living thousands of feet below the ocean surface near the Great Barrier Reef
  38. Midterm election results reflect the hodgepodge of US voters, not the endorsement or repudiation of a candidate’s or party’s agenda
  39. Dreaming of beachfront real estate? Much of Florida's coast is at risk of storm erosion that can cause homes to collapse, as Daytona just saw
  40. The World Cup puts the spotlight on Qatar, but also brings attention to its human rights record and politics – 4 things to know
  41. Suspect in the Colorado LGBTQ shootings faces hate crimes charges – what exactly are they?
  42. Vitamin B12 deficiency is a common health problem that can have serious consequences – but doctors often overlook it
  43. After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past the 1.5 degrees global warming limit – here's what we can still do about it
  44. Student loan cancellation got blocked. Now what? 3 questions answered
  45. Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would be the first in 3 decades
  46. 4 plays that dramatize the kidnapping of children during wars
  47. Scientists uncovered the structure of the key protein for a future hepatitis C vaccine – here's how they did it
  48. Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions over whether state's protection order could have prevented tragedy
  49. Thanksgiving hymns are a few centuries old, tops – but biblical psalms of gratitude and praise go back thousands of years
  50. COP27's ‘loss and damage’ fund for developing countries could be a breakthrough – or another empty climate promise