Tag: quick reads
College students with young kids – especially mothers – find themselves...
Claire Wladis, CUNY Graduate Center
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
We found that college students who have...
How changing parental beliefs can build stronger vocabulary and math skills...
Julie Pernaudet, University of Chicago; Dana Suskind, University of Chicago, and John List, University of Chicago
The Research Brief is a short take about...
Facebook became Meta – and the company’s dangerous behavior came into...
Eric Smalley, The Conversation
Meta, née Facebook, had a rough year in 2021, in public opinion if not financially....
Cellphone bans in the workplace are legal and more common among...
Richard Carlson, South Texas College of Law Houston
Cellphones in the workplace can be a distraction – but they...
What is the Fed taper? An economist explains how the Federal...
Edouard Wemy, Clark University
Tapering refers to the Federal Reserve policy of unwinding the massive purchases of Treasury bonds...
Why is my poop brown?
Hannibal Person, University of Washington
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Many global charities refrain from ‘poverty porn’ imagery to raise money...
Abhishek Bhati, Bowling Green State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Why do couples use baby talk with one another?
Ramesh Kaipa, Oklahoma State University
Imagine you’re strolling through a park and you overhear a middle-aged couple cooing over...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
