A hospital that prescribes free nutritious food to families who need more than medical...
Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton
Being food-insecure – unable to get enough nutritious food to meet your needs – can take a toll on...
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse
Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Stephen Aguilar, University of Southern California
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...
Kids want to learn more about mental illness and how to cope with parents...
Joanne Riebschleger, Michigan State University and Jennifer Tanis, Michigan State University
One in five teens has a parent with a mental illness such as anxiety...
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...
