Tag: Mortality
What families need to know about how to safely store firearms...
Kerri Raissian, University of Connecticut and Jennifer Necci Dineen, University of Connecticut
For the past few years, guns have...
Hip-hop and health – why so many rap artists die young
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
The song “Be Healthy” from the 2000 album by hip-hop duo dead prez, “Let’s...
Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other...
Patrick Heuveline, University of California, Los Angeles
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Future Air Force officers get a 30,000-foot view of death in...
L. William Uhl, United States Air Force Academy and Arri Eisen, Emory University
Unusual Courses...
Losing a grandmother can have long-lasting mental health effects for kids...
Emily Smith-Greenaway, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Ashton Verdery, Penn State; Michelle Livings, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
Why some people distrust atheists
Jaimie Arona Krems, Oklahoma State University and Jordan W. Moon, Arizona State University
An ad featuring Ron Reagan, son of the Republican former President Ronald...
US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a...
David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University
U.S. gross domestic product is at an all-time high. U.S. life expectancy is not.
Life expectancy has fallen for...
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...
