Tag: Suicide
The holiday-suicide myth and the intractability of popular falsehoods
Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
For years, the media have reported that more suicides occur during the holidays than at any other time.
Many of...
Why the creators of ’13 Reasons Why’ should pay attention to...
Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
Does it matter that people seem to have become more interested in suicide – expressing more suicidal thoughts, while...
Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?
Shontavia Johnson, Drake University
In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time...
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...
