Flourishing takes more than self-help tips

Electrifying homes to slow climate change: 4 essential reads

Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation

Many people want to know about practical suggestions to help slow climate change. Effective action starts at home.

Mismanaged cloud services put user data at risk

Eric Pauley, Penn State

Cloud services are convenient, but if an organization isn’t careful about how they use them, the services can also give data thieves an opening.

Why do cats’ eyes glow in the dark?

Braidee Foote, University of Tennessee

A veterinary ophthalmologist explains what’s going on.

Great white sharks occasionally hunt in pairs - new research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators

Yannis Papastamatiou, Florida International University

Researchers have discovered that great white sharks are more social than previously thought. Using specialized tags, they tracked six sharks and found that some stay close to each other when hunting.

Will Smith’s slap shows ‘honor culture’ is alive and well

H. Colleen Sinclair, Mississippi State University

While you’ll often hear people say that violence is never the answer, in some communities violence is viewed as a perfectly reasonable response to personal slights.

Ukrainian teens’ voices from the middle of war: ‘You begin to appreciate what was common and boring for you’

Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University - Newark

A group of Ukrainian teens writes about what they will do when the war ends. ‘The first thing that I would do is play the piano. I will play as long as I can,’ writes one.

First round of the French election: apparent stability, yet a profound reconfiguration

Mathias Bernard, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

The dynamics of the “strategic vote” in France have amplified the restructuring of the political field around three major poles: centrist, identitarian and far left.

Penance and plague: How the Black Death changed one of Christianity’s most important rituals

Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State University

Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.

Researchers identified over 5,500 new viruses in the ocean, including a missing link in viral evolution

The cheerful lexicon of the Spanish language may help solve a health mystery called the Hispanic Paradox

Rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine is the latest example of a despicable wartime crime that spans the globe