What’s the point of giving gifts? An anthropologist explains this ancient part of being human
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
Have you planned out your holiday gift giving yet? If you’re anything like me, you might be waiting until...
Autoworkers, Boeing machinists, cannabis drivers: Labor unions are mobilizing in new and old industries alike
Robert Forrant, UMass Lowell
What do violinists, grocery store clerks, college dorm counselors, nurses, teachers, hotel housekeepers, dockworkers, TV writers, autoworkers, Amazon warehouse workers and...
Philly residents with opioid addiction get medication from the ‘bupe bus’ − creating a path for treatment
Bupe Bus
Margaret Lowenstein, University of Pennsylvania
A mobile team offering medication treatment to people with opioid use disorder showed promise in getting patients in Philadelphia...
Online romance scams: Research reveals scammers’ tactics – and how to defend against them
Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington
In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a...
‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop
The popular phrase ‘knowledge of self’ – invoked by numerous rappers who adhere to Islam – is nearly a millennium old. Paul Hawthorne for Getty Images
