This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether it’s seeing violent behavior with a family or among others in the neighborhood, or in movies, television, or violent video games, the gun use and acceptance among young adults…
This webinar was co-hosted by Grantmakers In Aging (GIA), American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), and The Good Dog Foundation. Preliminary research demonstrates the benefits of therapy dogs for older…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past few months, our PODCAST-19 team has been grappling with how best to report on the pandemic. A lot has changed since we started this podcast in May…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Long before coronavirus vaccines started being widely administered in the country, public health agencies made recommendations on improving building ventilation, as the virus is thought to primarily spread through airborne respiratory droplets.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “At each of these points, there are interventions that could reduce the barriers for individuals who have been in touch with the justice system, Coke adds, ‘and that’s really the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around the country, global heating is increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of summer heat waves. The recent triple-digit temperatures across the Pacific Northwest, where air conditioning in homes isn’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In his history of Williamson, West Virginia, Okey P. Keadle—a member of Williamson High School’s inaugural, 1918, graduating class—describes the fire of 1906 that destroyed some 20 downtown buildings. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shipments of nine million COVID-19 vaccine doses are being delivered from the UK to countries around the world this week to help fight the pandemic. The deliveries are much needed because,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Careful surveillance and study of Sars-cov-2 variants will help determine the public health threats they pose and the mitigation efforts they require. SARS-CoV-2 has already mutated since it was first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Richard Hood, a retired literature professor living in Greene County, Tennessee, sums up a fear many people have about growing older: “I turned out to be a fairly typical example of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New York City teachers will be required to be vaccinated by the time school reopens in September, or be tested weekly, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The city is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a year of prolonged school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, California’s educators have been hard at work readying to open to full-time, in-person learning across the state. Schools…