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Fifty years of research on children’s toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.
New research sheds light on the indoctrination process of radical extremist groups.
People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.
Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
When we look at the night sky, we may see junk instead of stars.
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
“It’s not always about agreement, more often it’s about business.”
The retraction crisis has morphed into a citation crisis.
The public sphere should be open to conflict.
The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.
What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
Understand everything that goes behind payroll, debits, credits, and more with this 25-hour course collection.
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.
Whose responsibility is it to ensure that there is affordable access to employment?
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Learn all about mechanical design, product development, material selection, manufacturing, and so much more.
Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.
The more you donate, the greater your chances.
For democracy to prosper in the long term, we need more people to reach higher levels of education.
One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.
Beyond making up 70% of the world’s health workers, women researchers have been at the cutting edge of coronavirus research.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
In May 2018, the city of Paris set an ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.