Tag: Isolation
Curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less...
Clay Marsh, West Virginia University
A national health advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3,...
They don’t come as pills, but try these 6 underprescribed lifestyle...
Yoram Vodovotz, University of Pittsburgh and Michael Parkinson, University of Pittsburgh
The majority of Americans are stressed, sleep-deprived and overweight and suffer from largely preventable...
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....
Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time
Matthew Redmond, Stanford University
Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms.
She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired...
Shipwrecked! How social isolation can enrich our spiritual lives – like...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious...
Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats
Dana Hawley, Virginia Tech and Julia Buck, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Social distancing to combat COVID-19 is profoundly impacting society, leaving many people wondering...
Social distancing comes with social side effects – here’s how to...
Jonathan Kanter, University of Washington and Adam Kuczynski, University of Washington
To fight the spread of coronavirus, government officials have asked Americans to swallow a...
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
