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  • Research Suggests Traumatic ‘Memories’ can be Inherited

    Research Suggests Traumatic ‘Memories’ can be Inherited0

    Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta have found promising data showing that it’s possible for certain information to be biologically inherited by offspring, due to chemical changes in one’s DNA.   Trials using mice discovered that traumatic and stressful experiences, and the emotions that are felt during them, can be passed down

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  • Research Suggests Media Efforts to Portray Suicide as a Passive Act Could Increase Suicide

    Research Suggests Media Efforts to Portray Suicide as a Passive Act Could Increase Suicide0

    In less than a week in early June, the world lost two cultural luminaries to suicide. Designer Kate Spade, whose name and creations embodied feminine power and panache, died on June 5. Four days later, American chef Anthony Bourdain, whose empathic stories transcended food to connect humanity, killed himself. Spade and Bourdain’s premature deaths sparked

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  • Research Shows Why You Should Start Spending More Time Alone

    Research Shows Why You Should Start Spending More Time Alone0

    It can be hard finding time alone in a world that has most of us “connected” in some way, 24/7. The technology that has made its way into our daily lives is almost impossible to avoid using in this day and age. Between smartphones, tablets, iPods, laptops and regular desktop computers, we’re never far from

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  • Research Reveals Teenagers Actually Love the Bard

    Research Reveals Teenagers Actually Love the Bard0

    When you think of inner-city teenagers, what springs to mind? For many, it’s hoodies, video games — and probably hating Shakespeare. But my research proves that this stereotype is far from the truth. Shakespeare holds a contested place in the English national curriculum as the only compulsory writer to be studied between the ages of

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  • Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction

    Research Implies the Gender Pay Gap Might be a Fiction0

    It’s become conventional wisdom that women make just 79 percent of what men do for the same work. But is this actually true? The most recent evidence suggests that the gender wage gap is much smaller than researchers have suggested and may have little to do with discrimination. The report, written by a pair of

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  • Republicans Love Government Spending. Listen to What They Say at Hearings.

    Republicans Love Government Spending. Listen to What They Say at Hearings.0

    I am a fan of Kimberley Strassel’s columns about federal politics in the Wall Street Journal. But her recent column about the omnibus spending bill—which increased spending 13 percent in one year—was off the mark. Strassel suggested that Trump and the Republicans did not want to increase spending that much, but the Democrats forced them

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