'What has happened to the American Dream?'
Apr 04, 2016 23:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Up for discussion on Tuesday at 11 PM Eastern/10 PM Central on PBS and at pbs.org is the health of the American Dream. Is it dead or alive? University of Texas Austins Mechele Dickerson has been researching three of...
What's the backlash against gender-neutral bathrooms all about?
Apr 04, 2016 16:38 pm UTC| Life Politics
Last week North Carolina became the first state to pass a law requiring transgender individuals (including students) to use only bathrooms that match their biological (rather than identified) gender. They did so in...
The Witch - excellent supernatural fodder
Apr 03, 2016 23:25 pm UTC| Life
There havent been many films about witches in recent years. Stories explicitly scapegoating women as mad and hysterical seem to have fallen out of favour in popular culture, even if this tendency continues to clandestinely...
How to write a best-selling novel
Apr 02, 2016 03:32 am UTC| Life
So you want to write a novel? Of course you do. Everyone wants to write a novel at some stage in their lives. While youre at it, why not make it a popular bestseller? Who wants to write an unpopular worstseller? Therefore,...
Why so many Americans think they're #blessed
Apr 02, 2016 03:22 am UTC| Life
Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor from Duke Divinity School who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Bowler...
How can we help young adults with autism thrive in the workplace?
Apr 01, 2016 16:07 pm UTC| Life
The outlook is often bleak for young adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Even when they manage to graduate from high school or college, its very difficult for them to find a full-time job. While there are many...
Eight myths about women on the military frontline – and why we shouldn't believe them
Apr 01, 2016 16:05 pm UTC| Life
Although women have proven themselves capable in frontline combat situations most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan sceptics argue that this does not demonstrate they are capable of the dirty, exhausting, terrifying and...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects