Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Lisa Chedekel, Boston University
The two largest soda makers in the US use their sponsorships of health organizations to bolster their image, which helps them lobby against public health bills, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Boston University
New research finds racial disparities in emergency treatment for certain types of pain, specifically backaches and stomachaches.
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- Written by: Hongyi Li and Anton Kolotilin, UNSW Australia
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science has just been awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for building the foundations of contract theory.
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- Written by: Bill Hathaway, Yale University
Sophisticated eye-tracking technology shows that preschool teachers “show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected.”
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- Written by: Gerald K. LeTendre, Pennsylvania State University
Most of us know the difference a good teacher makes in the life of a child. Many global institutions working to improve access to education, such as the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International agree that “teacher quality” is the critical element in whether or not an educational system succeeds.
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- Written by: Kate Becker, Boston University
New research may explain why American children resist their parents’ instructions to share.
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- Written by: Milenko Martinovich, University of Florida
Gender bias can influence how supervisors view a manager’s long-term potential, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Patrick Ring, Glasgow Caledonian University
Even the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, admits to “not being able to make the remotest sense of pensions”. So what chance has everybody else? Many people find pensions and saving for retirement confusing and worrying.
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- Written by: Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Over the course of four years, at least 5,000 Wells Fargo employees opened more than a million fake bank and credit card accounts on behalf of unwitting customers.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Imagine a little gadget called an i-Everything. You can’t get it yet, but if technology keeps moving as fast as it is now, the i-Everything will be with us before you know it.
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- Written by: Clive Kronenberg, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Tania Morales de la Cruz, a professor of education at Cuba’s University of Matanzas, recently visited South Africa for the first time.
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- Written by: Roger L. Albin and Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan
It is a truism that aging of populations will result in large and potentially unmanageable increases in the number of older adults with dementia.
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- Written by: Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, New York University
Police killings of African-Americans on social media have become the visual hallmark of our time. This decade will be recalled through blurry cellphone and dash-cam videos of shootings. But how will it be remembered?
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Last week, Congress engaged in a bipartisan barrage of CEO bashing.
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- Written by: Mark Peters, University of Chicago
Economists used data from almost 50 million Uber sessions to figure out just how much customers are benefiting from the ride-sharing service.
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- Written by: Loretta Stalans, Loyola University Chicago and Mary Finn, Michigan State University
America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: they’d recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs.
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- Written by: Wallace Hopp, University of Michigan
Scorpion met Frog on a river bank and asked him for a ride to the other side. “How do I know you won’t sting me?” asked Frog. “Because,” replied Scorpion, “if I do, I will drown.” Satisfied, Frog set out across the water with Scorpion on his back. Halfway across, Scorpion stung Frog. “Why did you do that?” gasped Frog as he started to sink. “Now we’ll both die.” “I can’t help it,” replied Scorpion. “It’s my nature.”
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Donald Trump poses as a working-class populist, but about his new economic plan would be a gusher for the wealthy. And almost nothing will trickle down to anyone else.
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- Written by: Emily Costello, The Conversation
This week on the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump took a big step out of traditional Republican territory to propose a federal solution to the high cost of child care. His plan suggests utilizing the tax code to give a break to working parents with young kids.
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- Written by: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College
The proposed trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership – TPP for short – is drawing fire from both the right and the left as a middle-class jobs killer. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama continues to defend it as a boon for American businesses and consumers, as well as the larger economy.
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- Written by: Stephen Dinham, University of Melbourne
In health there are well-established protocols that govern the introduction of any new drug or treatment. Of major consideration is the notion of doing no harm.
