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5 Surprising Facts About Rejection Sensitivity

Rejection stings for everyone, but for highly rejection-sensitive people, it can be a real showstopper Credit: Jenny Dettrick Getty Images Advertisement Remember the first time you asked someone out? Whether it was in middle school or well into adulthood, I bet it was at least a little bit nerve-wracking. What if they say no? Worse, […]

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The President Alone Should Not Be Able to Start a Nuclear War

Scientific American April 2020 The U.S. should require a second assent for a strike and pledge to never strike first Experts generally agree that the world came closest to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. faced off on the issue of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed […]

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Livestock, Pets and People Will Dominate Future Fossils

Humans have become a dominant force on the planet, driving species extinctions, transforming the landscape and changing the climate. And this influence will likely outlast Homo sapiens by millions of years: we also look set to dominate paleontology in the distant future, according to research published in March in Anthropocene. The new study finds that […]

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Field Notes from a Demographer-in-Training

I thought my first summer job after starting a Ph.D. program in population studies (demography) would be staring at statistics on a computer screen, most likely in a windowless office. My prior summer research had included watching drunk driving public service announcements; poring over state laws; cleaning data for large federal surveys; and creating tables […]