Noise pollution is a serious but often forgotten public health problem
Creating a quieter environment can improve your health – but you have to know what you’re listening for.
Creating a quieter environment can improve your health – but you have to know what you’re listening for.
Aging levees and dams are only the beginning of the risks communities face. One of the biggest challenges is helping people…
Whether work gets done on-site, remotely or using a hybrid of the two can have a lot to do with an employer’s organizational…
Smartwatch users should be wary of relying too heavily on these devices’ algorithmic measurements.
AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes…
Philadelphia has more fatal traffic accidents than other big US cities, and they’re concentrated in poor neighborhoods.
For American conservatives of the Cold War era, red was the color of communists and the mistrusted American left. Now, it’s…
The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting…
The show presented itself as a crusade to protect children. But its appeal may have had as much to do with the pleasures…
For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
Flushing drugs or throwing them in the trash can have unintended consequences.
Getting Loss and Damage Fund money would be worth a lot more than the $20 million Nepal is asking for. The foreign minister…
A central theme of the High Holidays – and Judaism itself – is that to do right by God, people must first do right by…
A political philosopher explains the ethical arguments in favor of free movement.
Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military…
Detroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included…
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious…
One Google response asked for my medical history. Another answered a personal health question without asking who I was.…