Digital Gems

The author of the ground-breaking book Gender Trouble says we should not be surprised when the category of women expands to include trans women

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

Less than 14% of community college students go on to get a bachelor's degree.

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released an analysis showing that appraisal values are more likely to fall below the contracted sale price of a home in census tracts with a higher share of Black and Latino households, resulting in an appraisal gap.

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac examined 12 million home appraisals between 2015 and 2020 — and found significant racial differences.

As co-founder of a website tracking the spectrum of digital collectibles, Gauthier Zuppinger has seen it all. Drawings of toads, apes, abstract blobs, octopuses on heads, fire-breathing devils, and more.

The tendency of sons to follow in their fathers’ occupational footsteps is well known, but the effect of mothers is also powerful, it turns out.

The internet is not free. Yet billions of people unknowingly trade their data while they browse in what they think is a free ecosystem.  Trackers are lurking everywhere. Web tracking — by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and a host of other players — has become so pervasive that it’s almost impossible to avoid. A […]

You pay for Facebook with your privacy. And it keeps raising the price.

In this paper, we integrate recent theoretical and empirical developments in predictive coding and active inference accounts of interoception (including the Embodied Predictive Interoception Coding model) with working hypotheses from the theory of ...

Nearly 70% of darker Latinos said their skin color prevented their job advancement.

Note: At the beginning of the pandemic, the delinquency rate increased sharply (see table below).   Loans in forbearance are counted as deli...

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that around 11.9 million new jobs will be created between 2020 and 2030. Here's where you can expect windfall employment opportunities and other sectors where gigs are diminishing.

There’s no good evidence yet that personality profiling can influence elections.

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

Roughly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year.

Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.

Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

Rent paid as a share of income is forecast to rise beyond 30% by December for the typical U.S. renter, which is considered housing burdened.

Here is an initial look at the prime age (25 to 54) participation rate. The first graph shows the prime age participation rate since 1948....

iBuyers were part of 1% of all U.S. home transactions in Q2, with homeowners using an iBuying service to sell more than 15,000 homes.

Research shows an overwhelming majority of Americans say they aren’t working in their dream job.

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…