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Biden taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – What is it? Where did it come from? And does the US still need it?

Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington

Biden ordered the release of 50 million barrels of crude oil to tamp down rising gas prices, the largest drawdown in the reserve’s history.

Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers in computer science

Allison Master, University of Houston; Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington; Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington

Could it be that girls aren’t pursuing jobs in computer science and engineering because society has told them that’s not what they want to do? Three scholars weigh in.

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ and the linguistic jiujitsu of American politics

Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

As political parties spar, insults and catchphrases are adopted, appropriated and reappropriated in a dizzying verbal arms race.

What the Peng Shuai saga tells us about Beijing’s grip on power and desire to crush a #MeToo moment

Yan Bennett, Princeton University; John Garrick, Charles Darwin University

What happens when a Chinese #MeToo moment meets authoritarian legality?

The NRA could be winning its long game even as it appears to be in dire straits

Robert Spitzer, State University of New York College at Cortland

America’s love-hate relationship with guns is reaching a new level.

Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people

Wendelin Hume, University of North Dakota

Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.

Prayer apps are flooding the market, but how well do they work?

Dorian Llywelyn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

A scholar of Christian spirituality argues that prayers are meant to bring together a faith community – something apps aren’t likely to achieve.

Grocery workers suffer the mental health effects of customer hostility and lack of safety in their workplace

Brian Mayer, University of Arizona; Melissa A. Barnett, University of Arizona; Mona Arora, University of Arizona; Sabrina V. Helm, University of Arizona

Supermarket employees, still laboring in crisis mode, continue to report significant rises in physical and mental health problems.

The average person’s daily choices can still make a big difference in fighting climate change – and getting governments and utilities to tackle it, too

Tom Ptak, Texas State University

How and where people spend their money and use energy can influence corporate behavior.

Why are barns painted red?

Thomas Durant Visser, University of Vermont

Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?

Misremembering might actually be a sign your memory is working optimally

Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester

Errors don’t necessarily mean your mind is faulty. They may actually be a sign of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently.

Supreme Court could redefine when a fetus becomes a person, upholding abortion limits while preserving the privacy right under Roe v. Wade

Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell

The upcoming debate at the Supreme Court is less about the existence of the right to abortion and more about how that right is limited by the emerging personhood of a fetus.

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From the story, Why the oil industry's pivot to carbon capture and storage – while it keeps on drilling – isn't a climate change solution