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Over half of Americans are unmarried, a huge change since 1979 when the percentage of single people was in the 30s. This means shifts in the ways people live and operate within society.
The Foldscope is an ingenious creation from Stanford’s PrakashLab. It's a microscope that can be assembled by folding a single printed sheet of paper, a process similar to making origami, and one that costs less than a dollar.
Despite what your typical drunk college student would tell you, the 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day. In fact, Cinco de Mayo isn't even a national public holiday, though […]
When it comes to the overall happiness of a marriage, it matters more that the wife is happy with the relationship than the husband, according to a recent paper published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Yes, there is a map for that.
Being poor results in sleeping less for a variety of reasons. One major factor is public transportation and the fact that conforming to bus schedules can sometimes take hours out of one's sleep schedule each day.
What does equality mean when it comes to birth control?
Consciousness is what it's like and how it feels to be you. Thus, consciousness exists in a realm of irreducible subjectivity with which science isn't always comfortable.
Not many art galleries would let you inside wearing nothing but a swimsuit. Visiting the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Garden almost necessitates it. The work of a group of artists headlined […]
At the bottom of the teapot in Sagittarius, the ancient giants burn for your pleasure. Image credit: REU program / NOAO / AURA / NSF. “I told my father that […]
Wolfgang Tillmans' "playback room" will provide a superior listening experience while treating pop music with the same regard as other pieces of art.
According to a new study, people living in more liberal countries are happier than people in more conservative countries; but paradoxically, people who consider themselves to be liberal are less happy than people who think of themselves as conservative, regardless of where they live. Why?
It's easy to forget that college athletes who sustain concussions are often kept out of the classroom as well as off the field. The effects of any sort of traumatic brain injury can pose critical and lasting risks to a student's academic career.
An animal becomes so much more the instant you first love them. Image credit: me, of my first dog, Cordelia, back in 2008. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They […]
It's never too late to learn a new language. In fact, it's probably most beneficial to do so later in life.
Job interviews are a two-way street. Be sure to assess the company while the hiring manager assesses you.
Professional skateboarder Chris Cole explains how the sport channels a unique form of creativity that also contributes to the industry's success as a whole.
"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."
The English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) is best known for her early feminist treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792. Two years earlier, Wollstonecraft […]
The above quote is pulled from Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) long-form narrative essay A Room of One's Own, which was first published in 1929. Room is one of the English writer's many […]