Computer science jobs pay well and are growing fast. Why are they out of...
Tamara Pearson, Spelman College
When it comes to the digital divide, often the focus is on how lack of internet service and basic technology will...
There’s no place like home for the holidays – and that’s what makes the...
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
While Christmas playlists often include cheesy favorites like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,”...
Why we’re so bad at counting the calories we eat, drink or burn
Kaitlin Woolley, Cornell University and Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh
People often eat more than usual around the holidays – and this year more than...
America’s hidden world of handmade pornography
Lisa Z. Sigel, DePaul University
“To live among the handmade,” philosopher and antiques dealer Leon Rosenstein once said, “is to live among the human.”
Well, there’s...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...
When can children get the COVID-19 vaccine? 5 questions parents are asking
Wesley Kufel, Binghamton University, State University of New York
The first U.S. COVID-19 vaccines are expected in clinics in mid-December, and states are drawing up...
Intimate partner violence has increased during pandemic, emerging evidence suggests
Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Mississippi State University and H. Colleen Sinclair, Mississippi State University
As we face rising COVID infection rates, the possibility of additional quarantines rises....
The chattering classes got the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ book wrong – and they’re getting the...
Lisa R. Pruitt, University of California, Davis
Film critics have had nary a good word to say about Netflix’s new movie “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Reviewers varyingly called...
