Food can be delivered to hungry families without the usual stigma, shame and disrespect.
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How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity
Free food may fill your stomach, but it doesn’t always satisfy the desire to feel fully human.
Loving your work can be great, but judging whether others love their work isn’t. When passion becomes a standard, employees who do their work for stability or family needs can be unfairly judged or overlooked.
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Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams
If you view intrinsic motivation as a virtue, you likely judge yourself and your co-workers by ‘passion’ – which can backfire.
In Philly, algorithms help determine which unhoused residents get a bed and which remain on the street. This may centralize services, but it can introduce bias and deepen confusion, writes a researcher and former social worker.
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Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting
Supportive housing combines subsidies with wraparound social services to help people stay off the streets. But demand far outstrips supply in Phila...
Three objects spotted by James Webb Space Telescope may be dark stars: massive, luminous and powered by dark matter annihilation. If confirmed, they could reshape theories of early star formation ⭐
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When darkness shines: How dark stars could illuminate the early universe
Some unique ‘stars’ might be fueled by dark matter annihilation.
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Judging colleges by how they teach vocational skills misses the point, argues an engineering professor. The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM.
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Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education
Parents and policymakers want job security for graduates, but in the AI and automation era, careers may depend as much on curiosity and initiative ...
New research shows something wild: most dogs still carry slivers of wolf DNA. Even Chihuahuas have 0.2% wolf in their genomes.
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Thousands of genomes reveal the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA
Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 ...
Writer George Plimpton famously went undercover as a rookie QB in the Detroit Lions’ 1963 training camp, a stunt that resulted in publishing “Paper Lion.” The book gives readers an honest look into the often-brutal, sometimes-humiliating world of professional football.
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George Plimpton’s 1966 nonfiction classic ‘Paper Lion’ revealed the bruising truths of Detroit Lions training camp
George Plimpton, then a 36-year-old literary editor, endured the brutal realities of a professional football quarterback despite barely ever playin...
The Trump administration's policies are creating an unintended consequence: food waste and inefficiency at a time when U.S. hunger is rising.
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As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have,...
Food assistance programs do more than fill stomachs. They affect whether families can afford rent, medicine and other essentials. A policy expert examines how these programs can better support dignity alongside nutrition.
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How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity
Free food may fill your stomach, but it doesn’t always satisfy the desire to feel fully human.
The last fluent speakers of Arapaho are all over the age of 70. Linguists have created a comprehensive digital archive that could help younger generations learn the language and keep it alive.
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A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone
Many Native American languages only have a few native speakers left.