Negative stereotypes about girls’ ability can discourage from them pursuing careers in math and science, researchers say.
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The Trump administration recently announced it will reverse several policy memos outlining how colleges and universities can use race as a factor in admissions. Will diversity on campus take a hit?
Tuition hikes can change the racial and ethnic makeup of a college campus.
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Whenever tuition rises at nonselective four-year colleges and universities, racial and ethnic diversity within the student body declines, researchers have found.
Nikolas Cruz, facing 17 charges of premeditated murder, appears in court.
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Florida does not have a ‘red flag’ law that would have let police seize Nikolas Cruz’s guns before he killed. But there are actions law enforcement could have taken to address his murderous impulses.
Needles used for shooting heroin and other opioids litter the ground of a Philadelphia park.
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The recent death of ‘Storm Chaser’ star Joel Taylor, reportedly because of his use of the GHB, is a tragic reminder of the drug’s dangerous impact.
In the recent wave of sexual assault allegations, men tend to only appear as active perpetrators. But the landscape of sex in American culture is more nuanced.
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Even though they weren’t particularly interested in having sex, fear of ridicule and insecurities tugged at many of the young men the author spoke with.
Evangelicals are supporting Roy Moore despite the allegations against him. But would liberals make similar compromises?
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A scholar who has interviewed hundreds of Christians across the country explains how he sees religious beliefs and values intertwining with pragmatic concerns.
How much time and energy do people spend rating, reviewing and answering surveys?
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Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
A Dominican immigrant cuts the hair of a customer at her New York City salon.
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In New York City, hair salons are one of the few cultural spaces for Dominican women to bond. But they also perpetuate legacies of racism and colonialism.
The Grocon-built 77-apartment Greenwich Fairfield development in Melbourne includes ten apartments for people with disability.
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The NDIS has the resources and mandate to develop a mature market that delivers suitable housing for people with high disability needs, including the more than 6,200 young people now in aged care.
Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of the Emerson Collective.
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There are some benefits to the uptick in billionaire newspaper and magazine owners, who can weather short-term losses for the sake of long-term gains. But whose interests are really being served?
Display of Colombia’s main export countries on the “Globe of Economic Complexity” application provided by The Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University
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As summer heatwaves intensify across Canada, smaller cities need to follow the lead of Toronto and Vancouver - to protect vulnerable citizens from injury, disease and death.
Both psychologists and neuroscientists are interested in how working memory holds on to items over brief intervals – and are investigating from different angles.
No rest for the weary in a 24/7 economy.
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New research shows it only takes a few countries to kick-start the kind of global transformation required to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals.
An empty wheelchair – or is there a person there we do not see?
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For many of the nation’s poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.