People with lower incomes are exposed to heat waves for longer periods of time compared to their higher income counterparts due to a combination of location and access to heat adaptations like air conditioning. This inequality is expected to rise as temperatures increase, according to new research. Lower income populations currently face a 40% higher...
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Clarifying the Complexities of Communication Across Millennia in Mesoamerica
The long-held consensus that the more populated and “civilized” a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought. After systematically analyzing written and otherwise recorded evidence of shared information in prehispanic Mesoamerica over 3,000 years, two archaeologists say governance appears to be a more influential factor than society size in determining the...
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Who’s Watching? Nearly a Third of TV Ads Play to Empty Rooms
Paying thousands of dollars to advertise on television is a huge proposition – never more so than for the Super Bowl, for which 30-second TV spots this year will cost advertisers as much as $6.5 million. Contrary to Super Bowl advertisements, which are some of the most high-profile commercials, new Cornell University research shows nearly...
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Identifying the Portable Toilets of the Ancient Roman World
New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports reveals how archaeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber pot. “Conical pots of this type have been recognized quite widely in the Roman Empire and in the absence of other evidence they have often been...
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In Young People, Women Are 44% More Likely Than Men to Have Strokes
University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty members Michelle Leppert, MD, and Sharon Poisson, MD, had a hunch that younger people were having strokes at a higher rate than most health care professionals realized, but when they dug into the numbers, the findings even surprised them: In adults 35 and younger, women are 44% more likely than men to suffer...
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For the Uninsured, Crowdfunding Provides Little Help in Paying for Health Care and Deepens Inequities
Crowdfunding is sometimes touted as a “safety net” for people who can’t afford to pay their medical bills. But new research from the University of Washington, believed to be one of the first large-scale assessments of medical crowdfunding in the U.S., shows that people in states with higher medical debt and lower rates of insurance...
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Do Bikeshare Systems Complement or Replace Public Transit?
Bikeshare systems have come a long way since they were first introduced in the Netherlands in the 1960s. They are popular in cities around the world, but how do bike systems affect existing public transportation? That’s the topic of a new paper from the University of Illinois, published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice....
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Teachers Leading Global Drive to Improve Girls’ Education Took on ‘Humanitarian Role’ During Covid-19 Closures
Interviews with teachers at the forefront of international efforts to improve girls’ education reveal that many have taken on humanitarian roles, as well as working as educators, during the COVID-19 crisis. Their experiences are captured in a Government-commissioned report assessing UK-funded programmes for marginalised girls in some of the poorest parts of the world. It...
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Lockdown Measures Linked to an Increase in Drinking at Home
Lockdown measures linked to an increase in drinking at home New research which looks at how lockdown has shifted drinking habits in England and Scotland has been published The findings show an increase in at-home late-night drinking as well as solitary drinking Researchers say at-home drinking is an under researchered area and highlight the need...
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Physicists Unify Sociological Theories That Explain Social Stability
Humans prefer stable relationships and love to avoid social tensions. Sociology so far uses two concepts to describe this preference for social stability, namely, (Social) Balance Theory and the theory of homophily (“birds of a feather flock together”). Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) now propose a simpler approach. They were able to...
