Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse—until you include housing.
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2023
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Only about one in three Americans have enough saved for retirement, according to a national survey. But new research from the University of Georgia offers what might be a silver lining to the doom and gloom: Generation X ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2022
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Are eight billion humans too many for planet Earth? As we reach this milestone on November 15, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest residents.
Environment
Nov 7, 2022
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As life expectancy has grown, so have rosy expectations of longer retirements. But new research suggests the reality is far more complicated.
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2022
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The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the world—about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.
Social Sciences
Sep 8, 2022
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An insulin-suppressing protein may be the fountain of youth for ants and provides clues about aging in other species, according to a study led by New York University researchers.
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2022
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Although most people who commit violence tend to be teens and young adults, a new study found that the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were mostly middle-aged men.
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2022
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Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying ...
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2022
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The United Nations estimated Monday that the world's population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world's most populous nation next year.
Other
Jul 12, 2022
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