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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Isolated. Abused. Overworked. These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and relationships with colleagues as they earned their Ph.D.s at a public university in the Midwest. I featured their writings in to get my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. …

Noah Schnapp faced severe backlash last year after a video of him distributing stickers with controversial slogans went viral. In the video, Schnapp was giving out stickers with phrases like “Zionism is Sexy” and “Hamas is Isis.” The 19-year-old star’s actions left netizens furious, calling out producers to cancel the Stranger Things actor. However, the 19-year-old actor finally addressed his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp breaks silence on controversial video Noah Schnapp…

California Forever, the quixotic, billionaire-backed effort to craft a new city out of $800 million in Bay Area farmland parcels, continues to struggle. The project, which is owned by an opaque parent company, Flannery Associates, and backed by a slew of Silicon Valley luminaries, envisions a utopian new community nestled in Solano county. Backers of the project have promised locals new jobs, economic growth, a vibrant, “walkable” community, and local infrastructure improvements, but, so far, opposition has been…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Partisan conflict can be largely explained as differing views on two crucial tasks of society, according to a new theory developed by a pair of prominent social scientists. In a new article published May 8, 2023, in the journal Psychological Inquiry, Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman say societies…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew raised eyebrows when she suggested on Presidents Day that the United States pursue a "national divorce." Even in an era of seemingly ever-growing political polarization—and despite Taylor Greene's record of making controversial statements—the proposal shocked…

Proportion of Women MPs in Party Parliamentary Delegations across 20 Western Democracies, 1996–2017. Note: Data collected by the authors. Credit: American Political Science Review (2022). DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422000491 Nominating and electing more female politicians can help to diffuse polarization and reduce levels of hostility and distrust across party lines, a study shows. …

Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Unemployment and the rising cost of living force many people to make a living in the informal economy, particularly street trading. While it is difficult to measure the size of the informal economy, some studies show that more than 60% of employed people in the world work in the informal economy. It's over 80% in Africa, and the trend is increasing.…

via Marvel Studios If you’re a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan that’s been anywhere near a computer in the last half a decade, then you’ll be aware that a lot of people don’t like Captain Marvel. Brie Larson’s feature-length debut as Carol Danvers was subjected to a relentless trolling campaign both on social media and YouTube ahead of its release, which ended up reaping huge dividends when the movie wound up earning over $1.1 billion at the box office to still rank as one of the MCU’s highest-grossing origin…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, many people turned to online sources to find health information. That was also largely the case for racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States, and a new study from the University of Kansas found they faced many of the same challenges such as encountering misinformation online, but also unique factors such as harassment, hostility…