Fatherhood Scholars Know Best
For Father's Day, here's research on how dads are faring, how they're portrayed in pop culture and how the increasing frequency of stay-at-home fathers is changing gender roles in society.
Browsing Tag
May-June 2011
15 posts
Welcome to Shelbyville: Loving, Fearing Thy Neighbors
In the documentary film "Welcome to Shelbyville," a small Tennessee town deals with an influx of residents from Somalia.
Did the Stimulus Quench America’s Economic Thirst?
Washington dumped torrents of stimulus dollars across the American landscape to keep the U.S. economy from dying on the vine, but most of the spending won't bear fruit until 2015.
Start Slow With Bullet Trains
Will investing in speed and electrification create the "sparks effect" needed to convince Americans to ride high-speed rail?
New Dinosaur Gets a Rather Large Name
As if being wiped out by a meteor wasn't degrading enough, a charismatic dinosaur discovered in Utah gets a less-than-flattering name.
Save the Birds — With Doppler Radar
Doppler radar helped save the Texas forests where millions of migrating birds rest each spring.
Can Biosecurity Go Global?
Outside the U.S., biological labs follow few if any security regulations. A Sandia National Laboratory team works to help those labs prevent deadly microbe releases, accidental and deliberate.
ARCHIVE Says Home Is Where the Health Is
Peter Williams, an architect turned advocate, touts an unacknowledged connection between design and well-being.
Save the Poor by Selling Them Stuff — Cheap
The bottom-of-the-pyramid marketing movement tries to profit the developing world and make a profit at the same time.
Mentally Ill Homeless Improve With Group Living
Bucking a trend, a new book shows that group living can inoculate the homeless who are mentally ill against a return to the streets.