Tag: quick reads
This isn’t the first time sports teams have played in eerily...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The NBA decided that it will suspend its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus, just...
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law
Nicole Cooke, University of South Carolina
A bill pending in Missouri’s legislature takes aim at libraries and librarians who are making “age-inappropriate sexual material” available...
Do I have to wear a jacket when it’s cold outside?
Carolyn Kaloostian, University of Southern California
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Growing up in a banking desert can hurt your credit for...
Tony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The Big Idea
A banking desert is an area without...
Transgender Americans are more likely to be unemployed and poor
Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and Gilbert Gonzales, Vanderbilt University
The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that...
Is workplace rudeness on the rise?
Shannon G. Taylor, University of Central Florida
You don’t have to look hard to see uncivil behavior these days, whether in political discourse, in college...
Parental leave laws are failing single parents
Deborah Widiss, Indiana University
The two parties in Congress don’t agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a...
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...
