Pickup basketball and neighborhood kickball are less common now than for generations past, giving way to more organized and formal youth sports intended to help kids get ahead, a new study suggests.
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A shift from the sandlot to the travel team for youth sports
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Can childhood obesity limit the American dream? Study links it to lifelong mobility penalties
While the national conversation around childhood obesity often focuses on rising health care costs, new research co-authored by Ball State University economist Dr. Maoyong Fan suggests the crisis may also be limiting the “American Dream.” The…
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Infants ≤24 weeks are not just smaller extremely preterm infants
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Efficiency hierarchy and optimization of waste incineration in China to balance disposal and energy supply
Global waste management outlook 2024: beyond an age of waste, turning rubbish into a resource. United Nations Environment Programme. https://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/44939 (2024).
World Energy Outlook 2024. International Energy Agency (IEA).
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A large-scale randomized study of large language model feedback in peer review
Alberts, B., Hanson, B. & Kelner, K. L. Editorial: reviewing peer review. Science 321, 15–15 (2008).
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Kelly, J., Sadeghieh, T. & Adeli, K. Peer review in scientific publications:…
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Evaluating multiple candidates simultaneously reduces racial disparities in promotion and tenure
National Center for Education Statistics. Table 315.20. Full-time faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity, sex, and academic rank: Fall 2019, fall 2020, and fall 2021. Digest Educ. Stat.
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AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture
AI must be studied, including by social scientists. Yet the way we study AI must not narrow the scientific imagination or erase the intellectual diversity that preceded it. The goal is not to retreat from AI, but to resist allowing its urgency to…
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Distinct worldviews determine how meat producers navigate competing sustainability priorities in the United States
Producers clustered into three distinct worldviews, or discourses, based on the way they sorted sustainability priorities (Table 1 and Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: Sustainability priorities by discourse. a, Sustainability statement factor scores. Statements…
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Historically Black US universities chase top research ranking
Karl Thompson is a microbiologist at Howard University in Washington DC and the director of its graduate programme for biomedical sciences.Credit: Justin D. Knight/Howard University
One year ago this month, Howard University in Washington DC…
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How shaming unethical brands makes companies improve their behavior
Recent investigations have uncovered forced labor in agricultural supply chains, illegal fishing feeding supermarket freezers, deforestation embedded in everyday food products, and unsafe conditions in factories producing “sustainable” fashion….
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