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Father and daughter in Afghanistan

New economies – not top-down wars on drugs – are the solution in Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar

University of Exeter
Categories Social Sciences
Three (3) kids who are friends are laying on the floor in between bookshelves in the library. They are reading a book together. They are all smiling and enjoying their afternoon.

Children learn to read faster, given appropriate challenges

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Couple walking on road

Thanks Obama: More adults with schizophrenia have health insurance

University of Massachusetts
Categories Health, Social Sciences
Woman at grocery store

Product images could boost food pantry use

Cornell University
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
pot cooking on gas stove

Gas stoves ignite a heated climate and health policy debate

USC
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
To convey a sense of urgency, try reaching people through their ears. | iStock/CSA Images

Effective Recommendations Are Better Heard Than Seen

Stanford University
Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

University of Michigan
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
Researchers examined how different types of drought, various resilience strategies, and household behavior can affect the affordability of water. (Image credit: Shutterstock/Piyaset)

Droughts can make water unaffordable for low-income households

Stanford University
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
The Jan. 8 insurrection in Brazil’s seat of government was styled after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, says Jerry Dávila, the Lemann Chair in Brazilian History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and executive director of the Illinois Global Institute. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

What led to the attempted coup in Brazil, what comes next?

University of Illinois
Categories Social Sciences
network links illustration

Social networks structure to blame for massive spread of fake news

USC
Categories Social Sciences, Technology
Bins of rice

Genetically modified rice could be key to tackling food shortages caused by climate change

University of Sheffield
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences
Teachers tend to blame Black boys more than White boys for identical misbehaviors and are more likely to send them to the principal’s office, according to a new study by Yale SOM’s Jayanti Owens. Black and Latino boys also receive harsher punishment because the schools they attend tend to have more punitive cultures.

Black Boys Face Double Jeopardy at School

Yale University
Categories Social Sciences
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