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Why Heat Waves Make You Miserable
Scientists are studying how much heat and humidity the human body can take.
Debora Spar on technology’s role in the origins of marriage and feminism
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
The positive impact of entrepreneurial immigrants
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
How physical appearance influences authority
Cherubic features benefit black male CEOs, but not other groups, underscoring the complexity of social disadvantage.
Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Walker studies “elite controllers” of HIV
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
The argument for geographically targeted economic interventions
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
In extinctions, ecological impacts can exceed sheer numbers of species lost
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
When Capital Trumps Labor
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.