Supporting girls and women in their efforts to be physically vigorous must become a global priority public health priorityPreliminary results from our research at Dalhousie University suggest that access to nature may be key to achieving this goal. A recent study in Lancet Global Health Global data from the last 15 years has been collected […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has been – and continues to be – incredibly disruptive and stressful for individuals, communities and countries. Yet many seem desperate to close this chapter completely, almost as if it never happened. This desire forget it and move on – marked “amnesia lock” by some – is understandable on some level. But […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday declined to approve MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, dealing a major blow to the emerging field of psychedelic medicine and dashing the hopes of many Americans desperately seeking fresh treatments. The FDA said there was not enough data to approve the drug for exploit and asked […]
Advertising copywriter Howie Cohen often said he had a congenital indigestion. So perhaps it was natural that in the 1970s he and a colleague at the ad agency would come up with a catchy slogan that not only sold more Alka-Seltzer but also became a punchline in American pop culture: “I can’t believe I ate […]
Last week, a pair of shoes was floating around the internet. I had been looking at them online as a gift for my father-in-law, but he didn’t like them and neither did I. But no matter what site I visited, there they were, staring back at me in all their moccasin glory. Digital advertising can […]
In time rising food costs and growing food insecurity, a significant portion of the food grown for subsistence never reaches our tables. Indeed, some estimates suggest that around 40 percent of fruits and vegetables never leave the farms. A immense proportion of them are rejected by wholesalers and retailers due to irregularities in weight, size […]
Based on data from one of the largest French players in freight transport, we have shown in a recent study that two-thirds of its business to and from Paris could be carried out by cargo bicycle. This result – based on an economic analysis in which the weight of the transported parcels was taken as […]
Fashion has a notoriously gigantic impact on the environment, accounting for as much as 10% global carbon dioxide emissions. The situation is made worse by the speedy fashion business model, which encourages repeated purchases of inexpensive and perishable items. Around 30% online purchases are then returned, most of which ends up in landfill. In 2020, […]
Editor’s note: The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has increased the number of Americans who don’t always have enough to eatincluding children. The Conversation US asked four experts to explain how common childhood hunger is and what is being done to solve it. 1. How grave a problem is childhood hunger in the […]
Boisterous miners are convoluted creatures. These native Australian honeyeaters live in gigantic cooperative groups, using alarm calls to target specific predatorsand sometimes help raise other miners’ children. But they are probably best known for their aggressive and coordinated attacks on other birds – a behavior known as “mobbing.” We conducted a study investigating some of […]