News in Brief Marriage Drives Us to Drink Less New research confirms married people consume less alcohol than their single or divorced counterparts. By Tom Jacobs (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief People Are Calling Natural Gas a ‘Bridge’ to a Sustainable Future—They’re Wrong For America to reach full renewable energy, we need to re-focus our investments — and divest ourselves of some dangerous… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Arctic Army Testing Site That Climate Change Could Uncover Engineers once thought snow would always accumulate in Greenland, thus burying, forever, the army bases they abandoned. But… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Computers in the English Class How an early digital humanities experiment helped college students grapple with modern poetry—and changed education forever. By Jennifer… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Hacking America How an unchecked amendment could threaten Americans’ privacy and security. By Negin Parsee & Chris Ryder (Photo: Sean… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Research Into How Children Experience Animal Abuse Shows Why Domestic Violence Shelters Should… Twenty-four percent of children whose mothers experience domestic violence also see threats to or abuse of companion animals,… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Have We Become So Quick to Let Our Disabled Die? In the aftermath of previous physician-assisted suicides, cases like Jerika Bolen’s are dividing disability advocates and proponents of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Trump Supporters Are Prejudiced—and So Are You New research finds people with high and low cognitive ability are both biased — just toward different groups. By Tom… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Are Payday Loans Really All Bad? A new paper suggests payday loans improve well-being in some situations, but not in others. By Dwyer Gunn… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief For Climate Scientists, the Siberian Anthrax Outbreak Is a Sign of What’s to Come We don’t yet know what else lies buried within the Earth’s permafrost — which is scary, because warming in the… Pacific Standard Staff