The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.
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Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
A new study maps vegetation’s fire risk across the West and shows where population in the highest-risk areas from California to Texas is booming.
Experts help explain the context around the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and subsequent trial and convictions of Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan.
Informed data donations are different from the usual online data experience. They’re easier to manage because of technological advances.
Government agencies are setting up new websites and phone hotlines to provide information. But those might not be the best ways to engage with people who need help the most.
Spotted hyenas provide ecosystem services that improve human welfare and contribute to sustainable development goals.
Stanford researcher Lucy Bernholz is re-imagining what philanthropy looks like and is trying to understand how average people create, fund and distribute shared social goods in the digital age.
Spoiler alert: Stolen guns arm criminals, and limiting gun carrying outside the home reduces violent crime.
An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the deluge.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
Après une forte baisse des émissions en 2020 due à la pandémie de Covid-19, 2021 témoigne d’une inquiétante reprise, souligne la nouvelle étude du Global Carbon Projet.
Preocupa especialmente la tendencia al alza a largo plazo de las emisiones de CO₂ procedentes de la quema de combustibles fósiles, que están lejos de llegar a cero en 2050.
Most concerning is the long-term upward trends of CO₂ emissions form burning fossil fuels, which are far from trending towards net-zero by 2050.
Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.
The problem with chronic absenteeism isn’t so much that kids are missing instruction time; it’s that unexcused absences may indicate crises at home, new research suggests.
Post-colonial writing has expanded the concept of tragedy beyond Western thought.
The infrastructure bill being debated in Congress looks like a small but genuine down payment on a more climate-friendly transportation sector and electric power grid. What comes next is crucial.
The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Online learning during the pandemic gives students more autonomy. For high-achieving students, especially those in academically mixed classes, that’s an advantage, whereas others might struggle.
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Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Conflict, Stanford University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, Stanford University
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Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University
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Research Scholar, Indo-Pacific Security, Stanford University
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Deputy Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
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Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
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Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Research Affiliate, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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Science Communicator, Stanford University
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Former Stanford Impact Labs Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, Stanford University
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Associate Scientist, SLAC Computational Beamline, Stanford University
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Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Physics Department, Stanford University