Whining About Labels
You may have heard about unsafe levels of arsenic in wine. That’s not really the problem it’s been made out to be, but you should still know what you’re drinking when you pick out your next bottle.
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This Week in Hate Speech
A round-up of news and research on hateful speech, and efforts to silence it.
Are Ties to a Notorious Institution a Career Killer?
How scandals—even silly ones—affect the lives of individuals associated with the institutions mired in them.
This Week in California’s Drought
A round-up of news and research on the Golden State's thirst for water.
Reading, Writing, and Musicianship
The Harmony Project finds that regular music lessons can have many benefits.
What If Education Reform Got It All Wrong in the First Place?
That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.
Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician
An ambitious five-year study of young orchestral players aims to determine how taking group music lessons impacts them intellectually and emotionally.
How an After-School Program Fought Crime
A police force and an after-school program in Costa Mesa, California, worked together to make a neighborhood safer and send kids to college. What can we learn from their success?
The Fight Over Plastic Grocery Bags
A rare ballot referendum in California aims to keep the state from banning free, single-use bags. Why the challenge? Where California goes, the conventional wisdom has it, so goes the nation, particularly when it comes to the environment.
It’s Time to Rethink Our Approach to Sex Offenders
Thousands of sex offenders are released from prisons every year. Where should they go?