Tag: quick reads
Diets can do more than help you lose weight – they...
Adrienne Rose Bitar, Cornell University
Fad diets have long been brushed off as selfish, superficial quests to lose weight.
But if you study the actual content...
A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words...
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida
The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s. So it’s no wonder the...
Why the Davos elites are still relevant
Christopher Michaelson, University of St. Thomas
Has Davos lost its mojo?
After U.S. President Donald Trump, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders nixed...
Women are better than men at the free throw line
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
As basketball season comes into full swing, consider another competition – the one between the blue and pink...
How childbearing varies across US women in 3 charts
Caroline Sten Hartnett, University of South Carolina
Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines.
These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average...
The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress
Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, North Carolina State University
The Trump administration wants to tighten even further longstanding restrictions on who is eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
What’s an index fund?
Jordan Schoenfeld, Georgetown University
The creation of the index fund in 1975 revolutionized investing, lowering costs for millions of ordinary investors.
Their inventor John Bogle died...
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...
