It’s Not the Economy: Why Unique Baby Names Are Trending Up
Source: Live Science
An increase in individualism has led to parents choosing original baby names.
Current Events
The Exhausting Work of Tallying America’s Largest Protest
Source: The Atlantic
Two university professors share their method of counting the number of people who attended the Women’s March on January 21 and suggest what that number might signify for the movement’s future success. You can find a link to their Google spreadsheet in the fourth paragraph.
The Aleppo Project
Source: Central European University
Stay on top of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Syria.
Why It’s Impossible to Predict When That Giant Antarctic Ice Sheet Will Split
Source: Wired
There are many factors that will affect when the Antarctic ice sheet named Larsen C will collapse and what the impact will be to sea levels. Larsen A and Larsen B disintegrated in 1995 and 2002.
How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It
Source: NPR
Statistics show that seeing other fathers take parental leave helps remove the stigma of leaving work for an extended time.
Should U.S. pay reparations for slavery? U.N.-appointed experts think so
Source: CBS
Read why the United Nations recommends formal apologies and reparations be made to black Americans and why the subject is controversial.
Scientists just accidentally discovered a process that turns CO2 directly into ethanol
Source: Science Alert
Excess carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is causing extinctions, killing coral reefs, and feeding global warming. Scientists recently stumbled onto a remarkably simple solution.
‘The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.’
Source: The Washington Post
In the shadow of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, alarming echoes of the past are being heard.
The Israeli-Palestinian basketball teams that are breaking all barriers
Source: ESPN
Organized by PeacePlayers International, a basketball team of Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls is bringing people together.
Are charter schools truly innovative? The answer can depend on your definition
Source: The Boston Globe
As residents of Boston prepare to vote on the expansion of charter schools in their city, they examine the innovation and success of those that already exists.