By Paul Howe, Professor of the Practice, Tufts University
The United Nations’ latest report on hunger makes for grim reading. On April 24, 2024, the international body released its annual Global Report on Food Crises, showing that 281.6 million people faced acute hunger in 2023.
And indications for 2024 suggest worse may be to come. In March, the United Nations’ highest technical body for assessing food and nutrition crises warned of an “
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By Marc Cohen, Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center; Recent Mel King Fellow at MIT Co-Lab, UMass Boston
If you needed long-term care, could you afford it?
For many Americans, especially those with a middle-class income and little savings, the answer to that question is absolutely not.
Nursing homes charge somewhere around US$100,000 a year, while frequent visits from a paid caregiver may set you back more than $5,000…
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By Daniel Veghte, Senior Research Associate Engineer, The Ohio State University
Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of creating a sourdough starter are very simple – flour and water. Mixing them produces a live culture where yeast and bacteria ferment the sugars in flour, making byproducts that give sourdough its characteristic taste and smell. They are also what make it rise in the absence of other leavening agents.
My sourdough starter, affectionately deemed the “Fosters” starter, was…
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By Jingwen Hu, Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
EV fires make headlines, but they don’t tell the full story of EV safety. The real threat isn’t combustion, it’s weight.
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By Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The treasury will be given more resources to scrutinise investment proposals. In a speech, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will outline the guardrails around the new Future Made in Australia Act.
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By Barry C. Burden, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Democrats and Republicans try to keep them off the ballot. But third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
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By Kalen Flynn, Research Scientist, Center for Guaranteed Income Research, University of Pennsylvania
A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
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By Kathi Inman Berens, Associate Professor of Book Publishing and Digital Humanities, Portland State University
Rachel Noorda, Associate Professor of Publishing, Portland State University
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the approval at first reading by the Slovak Parliament of a bill that would label civil society organizations that receive more than 5,000 Euros a year in foreign funding as ‘organizations with foreign support’, Rado Sloboda, Amnesty International Slovakia’s Director, said: “This bill is a full-frontal assault on civil society, including the functioning […] The post Slovakia: Anti-NGO law a ‘full-frontal assault on civil society’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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