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Supplements for brain health show no benefit – a neurologist explains a new study Why do people faint? Fed’s dilemma: Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession How the New York media covered the Stonewall riots Women are rising in the conservation movement, but still face #MeToo challenges Time to cook is a luxury many families don't have Facebook claims Libra offers economic empowerment to billions – an economist is skeptical With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation Nuclear weapons and Iran's uranium enrichment program: 4 questions answered Sleep training for your kids: Why and how it works

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Supplements for brain health show no benefit – a neurologist explains a new study

Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health. A recent study found that a quarter...

Why do people faint?

Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone...

Fed’s dilemma: Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession

In a healthy economy, prices tend to go up – a process called inflation. While...

How the New York media covered the Stonewall riots

The Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests that began in...

Women are rising in the conservation movement, but still face #MeToo challenges

The #MeToo movement has caused profound shake-ups at organizations across...

Economy
Fed’s dilemma: Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession

In a healthy economy, prices tend to go up – a process called inflation. While you might not like that as a consumer, moderate price growth is a sign of a healthy, growing...

Facebook claims Libra offers economic empowerment to billions – an economist is skeptical

Facebook is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Should we be concerned? The social network site on June...

Forget lower jobs growth, the number of people who've stopped looking for work is much more worrisome

Millions of unemployed Americans have become too discouraged to look for work. Manop_Phimsit/Shutterstock.com The...

Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession

In a healthy economy, prices tend to go up – a process called inflation....

Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession, while too little means one may be on its way

In a healthy economy, prices tend to go up – a process called inflation....

Education
What advice articles miss about 'summer loss'

When the end of the school year arrives, internet articles and morning talk shows sound the annual alarm about preventing summer learning loss. They advise parents to purchase...

School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects

For the past couple of decades, proponents of vouchers for private schools have been pushing the idea...

I was an expert witness against a teacher who taught students to question the Holocaust

When I first set out to research how the Holocaust was being depicted in textbooks...

How to teach and parent better in the age of big data

At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first...

Chicago's Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher...

Environment
Women are rising in the conservation movement, but still face #MeToo challenges

The #MeToo movement has caused profound shake-ups at organizations across the U.S. in the last two years. So far, however, it has left many unresolved questions about how workplaces...

The Supreme Court's Virginia uranium ruling hints at the limits of federal power

Virginia has the authority to ban uranium mining under state law, even as the federal government regulates...

The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter

Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global...

Climate change alters what's possible in restoring Florida's Everglades

The Everglades are a vast network of subtropical freshwater wetland and...

Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes

The North American Great Lakes contain about one-fifth of the world’s...

Health
Supplements for brain health show no benefit – a neurologist explains a new study

Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health. A recent study found that a quarter...

Time to cook is a luxury many families don't have

Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than...

Sleep training for your kids: Why and how it works

For thousands of years, mothers have sung lullabies to help their babies and children...

The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes

Long-time “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek announced in March that he...

Fathers need to care for themselves as well as their kids – but often don't

If you had to choose, which would you rather have: a healthy father or...

Technology
Why do people faint?

Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive. Maybe...

With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation

Facebook has announced a plan to launch a new cryptocurrency named the Libra, adding another layer to...

What does the dust in your home mean for your health?

You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it...

Seaweed and sea slugs rely on toxic bacteria to defend against predators

Plants, animals and even microbes that live on coral reefs have evolved...

Who’s your daddy? Don’t ask a DNA test

“Man Ordered to Pay $65K in Child Support for Kid Who Isn’t His.”...