For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They’re engaging in leisure. […]
In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.This post was originally published on this […]
The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.This post was originally […]
Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do?This post was originally published on this site
New research published in International Studies of Economics sheds light on an important but often overlooked driver of racial segregation in housing: minimum lot size zoning policies, or local regulations requiring a minimum amount of […]
In 1874, renowned chemist Sir William Crookes sat in a darkened room, eyes fixed on a curtain over an alcove. The curtain twitched, and out came a glowing ghost of a young woman, dressed in […]
The federal government has just released an expert review to try and prevent bullying in schools. One of the greatest areas of concern is cyberbullying, which is alarmingly common among young people.This post was originally […]
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how their unique perceptual […]
A study led by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) confirms the rise in ideological polarization and biased or false news posted on Facebook. This research analyzed over 6 million news-related URLs—from 1,231 different domains in the […]
A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) can now spot signs of depression in online writing, and can do so with high accuracy.This post was originally published on this site
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