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The “money taboo” is not a single taboo, but rather an amalgamation of several smaller taboos tied to gender and socioeconomic class.
Million Stories
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
This is a perversion of justice.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
4mins
What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it's not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
It’s all about salesmanship.
Moral panics about the content of children's cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.
John Templeton Foundation
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
4mins
A majority of Americans think they are trustworthy, yet believe most other people can’t be trusted.
Stand Together
4mins
We’re wrong about what other people think - and that has harmful impacts on the next generation.
Stand Together
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
Investments in public libraries are a long-term investment in children and communities.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
We’ve argued over ideology for far too long. It’s time to pick a better route to prosperity. In every civilized society around the world, there’s a trade-off that must be […]
Visiting even one friend can undo all the good work that social distancing has accomplished. Over the past few months, people all over the world have come to realize just […]
As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]
For most of us, it’s something we just accept every year. But there’s arguably no good that comes from it. Every year on the second Sunday in March, most places in […]
Would you work at a job that didn’t treat you like a professional? No wonder public education drove their best teachers away. The ultimate dream of public education is incredibly simple. […]
Grad students will be taxed at the highest rate in the country, even higher than billionaires. For millions of young people, the American dream is to study the thing you’re […]
If you think federal funding for science is expensive, wait until you see the cost of not funding it. “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as […]
Want to ‘make America great again’? Not without science, you won’t. “Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did […]