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Do you have a healthy relationship with alcohol? Many Americans do – if you define “healthy” in the sense of a “strong and long-term” relationship.
Christina Mair, a professor of behavioral and community health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, researches alcohol use and the ways it affects American life.
Nearly 70% of people in the U.S. reported drinking alcohol during 2020, Mair writes in one of our most-read stories last week. During the pandemic, the number of people drinking every day increased to approximately 1 in 10.
Many don’t think about how drinking affects health because we just accept it as “normal.” And yet alcohol is the third leading cause of premature death in the U.S. and is linked to a number of cancers. Read this story, hit reply and let me know if it changed the way you think about your relationship with alcohol.
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Heavy rain from a series of atmospheric rivers flooded large parts of California from late December 2022 into early January 2023.
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Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz
Urban infrastructure was designed to take stormwater out to the ocean quickly. Now, California needs that precious water.
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Christina Mair, University of Pittsburgh
The number of deaths related to alcohol use in the US grew by a staggering 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lily Zhu, Washington State University
New research highlights how anyone can train their creative muscles by rethinking the anxiety, frustration and anger they encounter in daily life.
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David Riedman, University of Central Florida
Extremely young school shooters are not believed to be capable of forming criminal intent.
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Rafael R. Ioris, University of Denver
The sacking of key democratic institutions in Brasilia has parallels with the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol but was different in one key way: the position of the military.
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In the remains of her classroom, 16-year-old Khrystyna Ignatova visits her desk in the Chernihiv School #21, in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
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Kristina Hook, Kennesaw State University
The war in Ukraine affects everyone – including teachers and students, who are meeting the challenges with their people’s famed determination.
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Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University
The Notices to Air Mission system failed on Jan. 10, 2023, leading to thousands of canceled flights. The system is where all important safety information for pilots and dispatchers gets posted.
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Blake Earle, Texas A&M University
To fish the oceans sustainably, nations must reduce bycatch, or accidental catches. But fishermen often resist changing gear or techniques that kill nontargeted species.
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Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee; Casey Greene, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Daniel Acuña, University of Colorado Boulder; Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan; Mark Finlayson, Florida International University
Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
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Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.
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