Tag: life & news
A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I...
The Moon might be older than scientists previously thought − a...
Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It...
I’m a former assistant DA who works with survivors of sex...
Shea Rhodes, Villanova University
Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry and the Pennsylvania State Police announced the arrests of 22...
Rules against insider trading also boost innovation, research finds
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University; Jiawei Chen, University of West Alabama, and Valeriya Posylnaya, University of Minnesota Duluth
Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan...
Ken Hughes, University of Virginia
The Nixon administration’s enemies list inspired bipartisan revulsion. Its purpose was, in the immortal...
How liberals lost comedy − and helped Trump win
Nick Marx, Colorado State University and Matt Sienkiewicz, Boston College
Throughout the 2024 election cycle, reproductive rights were an...
5 of the most frustrating health insurer tactics and why they exist
Monica S. Aswani, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Paul Shafer, Boston University
The U.S. has made great progress...
Retailers that make it harder to return stuff face backlash from...
Huseyn Abdulla, University of Tennessee
In 2018, L.L. Bean ended its century-old “lifetime” return policy, limiting returns to one...
EXPLORING NATURE
Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes happened on a fault similar to the San...
Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two...
