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Align Your Clock: How Knowing Your Chronotype Can Enhance Productivity
Monday, 06 November 2023 16:01What’s your chronotype? Knowing whether you’re a night owl or an early bird could help you do better on tests and avoid scams
Blood Tests Now Unlocking Secrets to Dementia and Stroke Risks
Monday, 06 November 2023 15:01Your biological age predicts dementia and stroke regardless of your actual age – new study
Intersectionality Explained: From Feminism to Critical Race Theory
Monday, 06 November 2023 14:56What is intersectionality? A scholar of organizational behavior explains
El Niño Likely: Will Temperatures Rise to 1.5C Soon?
Tuesday, 25 April 2023 11:53April 16, 2023: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued an El Nino Watch as part of its April ENSO outlook.
A Day to Reflect on the Mess We Have Made
Saturday, 22 April 2023 23:11Earth Day is a day that holds a special significance for environmentalists and nature enthusiasts around the world.
Jacinda Ardern and Her Politics of Kindness Is a Lasting Legacy
- Hilde Coffe By
Jacinda Ardern’s human and empathetic approach sought to strike a conciliatory tone. Nowhere was this more evident than with her response to the Christchurch terrorist attacks when she said, “they are us”, embracing the immigrant and refugee communities targeted.
China’s and the World’s Population Now Turns Down
- Xiujian Peng By
China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down.
What We Found When We Tested the Wastewater from Planes
Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be infected with, are excreted when we go to the toilet. Ultimately, these agents find their way to municipal wastewater treatment plants where sewage samples can be taken and the levels of these pathogens measured.
How Republicans Whitewash Martin Luther King
January is a month that commemorates a darker, more recent memory of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists. The two issues—misuses of King’s memory and the Jan. 6 attacks—may seem like unrelated phenomena.
What Happens to Our Data When We No Longer Use a Social Media Network or Publishing Platform?
The internet plays a central role in our lives. I — and many others my age — grew up alongside the development of social media and content platforms.
4 Consequences of El Niño Returning in 2023
Every two to seven years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean gets up to 3°C warmer (what we know as an El Niño event) or colder (La Niña) than usual, triggering a cascade of effects felt around the world.
How Beavers and Oysters Are Helping Restore Ecosystems
Whether you are looking at tropical forests in Brazil, grasslands in California or coral reefs in Australia, it is hard to find places where humanity hasn’t left a mark. The scale of the alteration, invasion or destruction of natural ecosystems can be mindbogglingly huge.
How Archaeology Can Be Exciting as Well as Useful
Studying the past, through what people leave behind, can offer insights into some of the world’s challenges – like hunger, health, and protecting the environment.
USA Playing A Game of Chicken with the Debt-Ceiling?
Republicans and Democrats are again playing a game of chicken over the U.S. debt ceiling – with the nation’s financial stability at stake.
The Connected Community—Not So Wild a Dream!
Each time we go out of our way to encourage, support, share, and enjoy a neighbor, we are putting the world to rights on our own street.
Can Wealth Protect You from Climate Change?
While the days of overt climate denial are mostly over, there’s a distinct form of denial emerging in its stead. You may have experienced it and not even realised. It’s called implicatory denial
What The US First Amendment Really Says About Free Speech
- Lynn Greenky By
In short, the First Amendment enshrines the freedom to speak one’s mind. It’s not written in code and does not require an advanced degree to understand. It simply states: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”
What Are the End Results of Insects Vanishing Worldwide
Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of insect species have declined.
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