College students with young kids – especially mothers – find themselves in a time crunch
Claire Wladis, CUNY Graduate Center
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We found that college students who have...
‘Dataraising’ – when you’re asked to chip in with data instead of money
Lucy Bernholz, Stanford University
Fundraising appeals are part of everyday life, both online and off.
Requests for financial donations arrive by snail mail, email, social...
Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’ that depends on...
Michael J. Renner, Drake University
In 1980 I visited the zoo in a major U.S. city and found row after row of bare concrete...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
How changing parental beliefs can build stronger vocabulary and math skills for young children
Julie Pernaudet, University of Chicago; Dana Suskind, University of Chicago, and John List, University of Chicago
The Research Brief is a short take about...
Rifts between older mothers and their adult children usually endure – even through divorce,...
span>Megan Gilligan, Iowa State University
At the start of every new year, individuals often make resolutions to change aspects of their lives that they find...
Grocery workers suffer the mental health effects of customer hostility and lack of safety...
Brian Mayer, University of Arizona; Melissa A. Barnett, University of Arizona; Mona Arora, University of Arizona, and Sabrina V. Helm, University of Arizona
With...
5 ways to break into the video game industry
André Thomas, Texas A&M University
When you break out the game console to play a video game like NBA2K,...
