Climate anxious? Here’s how you can turn apprehension into action Worrying about the future can be debilitating. Experts say these three things can help The Guardian - US · Nov 16, 2023
Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs For 15 years, Brent Lee spent hours each day consuming ‘truther’ content online. Then he logged off. Can he convince his former friends to question their worldview? The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023
Unraveling long COVID: Here's what scientists who study the illness want to find out At a recent medical gathering, researchers presented their latest hypotheses about what causes – and what could treat – the lingering disease. WEKU · Sep 9, 2023
Yale President Peter Salovey to step down next year with plans to return to full-time faculty Yale University President Peter Salovey says he will step down next year and plans to return to the school's faculty The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023
Yale and a student group are settling a mental health discrimination lawsuit Yale University is settling a federal lawsuit that said the Ivy League school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023
Asteroid collisions may be responsible for mysteriously magnetic meteorites on Earth By modeling meteorite collisions, scientists from Yale University may have finally solved the puzzle of why some space rocks have unexpected magnetic fields. Space · Aug 3, 2023
Russia-Ukraine war: EU bans drone sales to Belarus and adds state TV presenters to sanctions list – as it happened Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, is close ally of Vladimir Putin and EU says regime is ‘accomplice in Russia’s unprovoked war’ The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2023
Machu Picchu's servants hailed from distant lands conquered by the Incas, genetic study finds A new DNA analysis of human remains buried at Machu Picchu yields information about servants to the Incas. LiveScience · Jul 26, 2023
Republicans' excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says After vaccines became widely available in 2021, "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters," Yale researchers say. WEKU · Jul 25, 2023
Breastfeeding May Protect Mothers From Type 2 Diabetes, Yale Study Shows Breastfeeding increases insulin-producing cells and sensitivity, lowering risk of diabetes, according to a new Yale study in mice. Zenger · Jun 19, 2023
Unraveling The Money-Happiness Myth: Insights From Yale’s ‘Science Of Well-Being’ Course Money doesn't buy happiness — or does it? Here's what one student who took Yale's 10-week online class found. Zenger · Jun 13, 2023
Electric Cars Poised To Capture Majority US Market Share By 2030 Improvements in range and technology and reduction in costs are likely to drive the change, as per the Carnegie Mellon and Yale University Study InsideEVs · Jun 9, 2023
The Rediscovery of America: why Native history is American history Historian Ned Blackhawk’s new book stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens The Guardian - US · May 8, 2023
Ukrainian kids 'stolen by Vladimir Putin's regime and taken to Russian camps' A report by Yale University last month said more than 6,000 children aged between four months and 17 years were being held in 43 camps in a systematic campaign "coordinated by Russia’s federal government" Daily Mirror · Mar 5, 2023
Ballotpedia · Feb 22, 2023 The educational background of the top-4 state executives in each state Welcome to the Wednesday, February 22, Brew.
Tribune News Service · Feb 14, 2023 Russia put 6,000 Ukrainian kids in re-education camps, Yale study finds Russia has placed thousands of Ukrainian children in camps where they’re subjected to Russian propaganda and forcible adoption by Russian families, with some even undergoing military training, a U.S. government-backed report from Yale University found.
WEKU · Feb 14, 2023 Russia deports thousands of Ukrainian children. Investigators say that's a war crime A team at Yale University is using open-source materials to document the forced removal of Ukrainian children to Russia. Russia says it's a vast humanitarian program.
The Guardian - US · Feb 7, 2023 Yes, Black officers killed Tyre Nichols. What is the correct response to that? The hierarchy of racial terror has never been enforced only by white people. Nor has it harmed only Black people
Reason · Dec 8, 2022 "Free Speech, Wokeness, And Cancel Culture In The Legal Profession" A very interesting interview by David Lat (Original Jurisdiction) with Judges Lisa Branch and James Ho; here's Lat's summary: Last week, I made my way up to Yale University for an event sponsored by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, "Is Free Speech Dead On Campus?" It featured Judges James…
Al Jazeera · Dec 7, 2022 Shrinking natural habitats push wildlife and cities into contact Cities like Detroit in the US take efforts to accommodate wildlife as climate change poses challenges for conservation.
The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2022 Yale University sued over student mental health policies Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated
The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022 Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? The climate emergency is prompting some scientists to suggest extreme measures. But whether you call it geoengineering or biomimicry, others feel interfering with nature will have too high a cost
France 24 · Nov 19, 2022 British PM Sunak visits Kyiv to confirm 'continued UK support' to Ukraine British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak paid an unannounced visit Saturday to Ukraine's capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky . This comes after Ukraine’s prosecutor general announced that at least 437 Ukrainian children have been killed as a result of the Russian invasion and more than 830 have been…
Reuters · Nov 18, 2022 U.S. report says hundreds were detained, missing in Ukraine's Kherson Hundreds of people were detained or went missing in Ukraine's Kherson region while it was under Russian control this year, and dozens may have been tortured, Yale University researchers have concluded in a report backed by the U.S. State Department.
The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2022 Ex-Yale coach gets 5 months in admissions bribery scandal The former Yale University women’s soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme’s mastermind has been sentenced to five months in prison