Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, University of North Dakota When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially as they emerge from the pandemic with heightened levels of anxiety,…
Libby Richards, Purdue University Many of us have heard: “Don’t go outside without a coat; you’ll catch a cold.” That’s not exactly true. As with many things, the reality is more complicated.…
Shelly Miller, University of Colorado Boulder The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, mostly from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. But in spite of the obvious risks…
Peter Goggin, Arizona State University Are mermaids real? – Verona, age 9, Owensboro, Kentucky Mermaids – underwater creatures that are half fish and half human – do not exist except in people’s…
Kate Saenko, Boston University This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out…
David Pride, University of California San Diego SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19, has killed approximately 2.2% of those worldwide who are known to have contracted it. But the…
Richard Pildes, New York University With Rudy Giuliani flailing through a series of failed election challenges for the Trump campaign, a superb new political biography provides fresh evidence of just how stark…
Nicholas G. Napolio, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Christian Grose, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences What happens if U.S. senators get sick or, even worse,…
Emilio Ferrara, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated…
Andrew Heiss, Georgia State University and Suparna Chaudhry, Lewis & Clark The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea U.S. donors become more generous toward nonprofit…
Mark A. Gluck, Rutgers University – Newark ; Bernadette A. Fausto, Rutgers University – Newark , and Lisa Charles, Rutgers University – Newark Older adults, especially those over 65, have five times…