Digital Gems

A survey by the Washington Post-Schar School found that 72% of internet users do not trust Facebook to responsibly handle their personal information and data on their internet activity and 64% said that the government should do more to rein in big tech companies.

Glaciers across the region are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

Merriam-Webster investigated the curious origins of the word "asshat," which emerged in the late 1990s.

The ongoing debate over transgender rights in rural America frames transness as a nascent movement, ignoring a long undercurrent of transgender history that is all but forgotten.

From March 2020 to March 2021, the number of Latinas in the workforce dropped by 2.74%, the biggest drop of any demographic group.

Working women were twice as likely as men to report feeling severe burnout over the past year, regardless of whether or not they had children. Women were also underrepresented across the corporate ladder and routinely experienced microaggressions, particularly women of color.

Learn about the history of analogue and digital computing, from how this technology helped us predict the tides and navigate the ocean to planning strategic attacks during WWII.

Lack of access and infrastructure, stigma and isolation intensify a mental health crisis in agricultural communities.

Similarities and differences in languages related to color are due to variations in communicative need across cultures.

After 50+ years, a trio of codebreakers solves the puzzle and earns a nod from the FBI.

Omicron is now the most common variant among new Covid cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly three-quarters of new infections.

Across 115 disciplines that publish to the PubMed or arXiv paper repositories, 87 had fewer than 45% women authors in 2016.

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. For example, startups with a female founder are also more likely to sell products with a disproportionately female consumer base.

Patents where the majority of the inventors are men are more likely to patent male-focused patents and patents where the majority of the inventors are women are more likely to patent female-focused patents.

1 in 6 parents report high stress levels during the holidays. Twice as many mothers than fathers report high levels of holiday stress. 1 in 5 parents say their stress level negatively affects their child’s enjoyment of the holidays. 1 in 3 parents are relieved when their child goes back to school after the holiday break.

A study by UpWork estimated that 14 million to 23 million Americans may relate due to the rise of remote work, amounting to 9% to 13% of the workforce. The vast majority are moving to the South and West, consistent with migration trends that were established before the pandemic (🔒The Economist).

The Netherlands is requiring all nonessential businesses to close until at least January 14 to reduce transmission of omicron.

Replacing business conferences with virtual meetings and virtual conventions would cut carbon emissions by an estimated 94% and energy use by 90%.

There will be a lot less money sloshing around China’s tech startups next year—at just the time when they’re going to need it most. VC firms that invest U.S. dollars in Chinese tech startups have raised far less money this year than in the past. Such firms have raised $4.2 billion this year so ...

The annual cost of childcare has risen as much as 41% since the beginning of the pandemic, increasing from an average of $9,977 to $14,117.

Algorithms are surfacing content that combines Christian ideas like prosperity gospel with New Age and non-Western spirituality — along with some conspiracy theories.

Of the $3.1 billion raised by U.S. creator economy startups during the first eight months this year, just 4.8% was raised by startups with only female founders.

A socialist artist, an entrepreneurial and furniture maker created the bungalow, a real estate movement that took over America.

The national median value of a mobile home in 2019 was $53,000, about $180,000 less than a traditional home. That was a 39% spike over the median value in 2014, while traditional homes rose by 33% over those five years.

At least 6,153 news organization employees were laid off between March 2020 and August 2021, with at least 100 US news organizations closing over the same period. Another 42 outlets were acquired.

The median age of Canada's 15 largest public companies is 122 years compared with a median age of 45 for US corporate titans.

Learn about three different types of feedback conversations, how to make time to share feedback with team members, and tips for giving feedback remotely.

Research shows an increased potential for spread through aerosols.

Data is from U.S. Army Corp of Engineers National Inventory of Dams. The visualization was built in Esri ArcGIS Pro and Adobe Photoshop.

88 of the top 100 cities in the U.S. showed fewer jobs in October 2021 compared to February 2020, the New York Fed Reserve found in data released Friday.