By Sarah Lubienski, Professor of Mathematics Education, Indiana University
Colleen Ganley, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Florida State University
Martha Makowski, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.
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By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Memphis
From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.
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By Jonathan Deutsch, Professor of Food and Hospitality Management, Drexel University
The Michelin awards will almost certainly bring more tourism to the city, and more revenue to the honored restaurants. But will it make Philly’s dining scene better?
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By Steve Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
The Beatles’ song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the “hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious state, experiencing vivid mental images and sounds.
Waking up one morning in early 1965, Paul McCartney became aware of a long complex melody playing inside his head. He jumped straight out of bed, sat down at his piano and picked out the melody on the keys. He quickly…
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By Fabian Pape, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Johannes Petry, CSGR Research Fellow, University of Warwick
Tobias Pforr, Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
The US has long sat at the centre of the global financial system, with the US dollar serving as the backbone of the world economy. Private investors rely on the dollar as a store of value in times of uncertainty.
Governments and central banks hold dollars to manage the value of their own currencies and as a form of insurance against economic shocks. Key commodities such as oil are also priced in dollars.
This dominant position, which has given the US enormous privileges including the capacity to borrow money cheaply and the ability to use the global…
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By Dominic Davies, Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams was first published in 2002 as a short story in the Paris Review. When it was reissued as a standalone novella almost a decade later, it was shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize. While the book did not win that year, somewhat strangely neither did anything else – for the first time in 35 years, the panel refused, without explanation, to choose a winner.
I have always liked this story because it brings to life the eerie and unsettling world of the American frontier. Train…
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By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Lydia Artz, Law Student, University of Dayton
As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, with Texas, Louisiana…
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By Thin Ink
“[W]e want the Seed Library to be a place of freedom, an initiative for us to have autonomy over our food, but also over our spirit, our minds, our words.”
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By Sandra Joireman, Weinstein Chair of International Studies, Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
A quarter of the 6 million Syrians who fled the country during the decadelong civil war have returned home in the past 12 months.
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By Human Rights Watch
Puerto Asís pier in Putumayo, Colombia, on October 19, 2025. © AFP Photo/Marie Audinet (Washington, DC) – Armed groups in Colombia’s southern state of Putumayo, have tightened their control over citizens’ daily lives and committed grave abuses against civilians, particularly in Indigenous communities, Human Rights Watch said today.Since 2023, the government has been in peace talks with several armed groups that control parts of Putumayo, which is on the Ecuador border. While some negotiating parties have reached agreements to destroy weapons and replace coca crops with food, armed groups…
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