Tag: Speed reads
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...
How a Native American coming-of-age ritual is making a comeback
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The Ojibwe, one of the largest indigenous groups in North America, with communities from Quebec to Montana, are...
The US economy produced about $21.7 trillion in goods and services...
Dan Sichel, Wellesley College
Editor’s note: The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Jan. 30 that U.S. Gross Domestic Product climbed to an estimated nominal...
Why we knock on wood
Rosemary V. Hathaway, West Virginia University
Ever said something like, “I’ve never gotten a speeding ticket” – and then quickly, for luck, rapped your knuckles...
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...
If it’s below 40 degrees in South Florida, the forecast calls...
Frank Mazzotti, University of Florida
As temperatures were dipping this week, the National Weather Service issued freeze warnings for much of Florida and Georgia, adding...
Curious Kids: Why do feet stink by the end of the...
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer,...
Curious Kids: How are cats declawed, and is it painful?
Ilana Halperin, University of California, Davis
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
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...
