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A study challenges the idea of steady employment among American men, revealing that only 41% of Baby Boomers had stable jobs throughout their prime earning years. This instability affects health and financial stability, urging a reevaluation of employment policies and practices.A new study reveals that just 41% of men sustain continuous employment throughout their prime earning years.Steady employment has traditionally been viewed as a hallmark of the American male identity, particularly among the Baby Boomer generation.…

Egypt and Northeast Africa in Antiquity, with Modern Geographical Boundaries. Credit: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2023). DOI: 10.1162/jinh_a_01977 Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really the case? Researchers from the University of Basel are conducting a critical analysis of the ancient written and…

O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came together for an onstage discussion at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn as part of Rolling Stone’s first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event. Earlier that same day, Batiste scored five Grammy nominations for his latest album, World Music…

A study from the CAS Institute of Physics has debunked the claims of superconductivity in LK-99, a compound earlier thought to exhibit superconductivity at ambient pressure. The research found that the compound’s observed properties were due to the first-order structural transition of Cu2S impurities, not superconductivity. This conclusion resolves the confusion sparked by earlier claims that had caused a viral sensation among scientists and the public.New research has disproved the superconductivity claims of LK-99,…

Myths and canards about Social Security and its supposed fiscal troubles have steadily proliferated over the years. But it’s rare to find them all concentrated in one place as they were in a recent article on the online news site Slate.Slate paired Eric Boehm, a writer for the conservative magazine Reason, with a writer named Celeste Headlee for a dialogue titled “Social Security Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore.” The roughly 2,000-word piece contained so many misconceptions, inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies…

Implicit Attitudes Toward Men Among Feminists and Non Feminists. Note. Scale midpoints are indicated by dashed horizontal lines. Scores above the dashed horizontal line represent greater positivity. Scores below the dashed line represent greater negativity. The figure depicts box plots representing interquartile ranges (boxes), outliers (points), and means with 95% confidence intervals (white circles and whiskers). Credit: Psychology of Women Quarterly…

Multitrajectories of men’s workforce participation from ages 27 to 49 (n = 4,538). (A) Steady work participation (41 percent), (B) increasingly steady work (25 percent), (C) increasing unemployment and out of labor force (13 percent), (D) intermittent work (11 percent), (E) early-career exit (6 percent), and (F) midcareer exit (4 percent). Credit: Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (2023). DOI: 10.1177/23780231231197031…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain There is no evidence that trade partners weaponize labor provisions in trade agreements, according to new research co-authored by Desirée LeClercq, the Proskauer Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professor at Cornell University's ILR School. In the research, published in The Journal of Law, Economics, and…

Analysis of global data spanning over 30 years reveals a growing crisis of low back pain, with projections suggesting 843 million people will suffer from the condition by 2050 due to the increasing population and aging demographics.A review of more than three decades of data reveals an escalating trend in the instances of low back pain, with forecasts indicating that the condition could affect around 843 million individuals by 2050. This rise can be primarily attributed to increasing populations and their progressing…

The research compiled evidence from around the world to show that women participate in subsistence hunting in the majority of cultures. Credit: Mohamed_hassan, Pixabay, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather.…