Suggested readings from JSTOR Daily Editors. Our picks for the best stories online that tie scholarship to the news.

Two articles look at the sociological impact of the 1995 heat wave in Chicago, which killed 700 people.

A paper explores the reasons why people give to charities.

Smalltooth sawfish are increasingly reproducing without males, according to new research.

The western antarctic ice shelves are thinning rapidly.

Executives make hiring decisions more by markers of social class than by actual qualifications.

For the survivors who passed through displaced persons camps in Germany alone, their time in the camps was a chance to reestablish their identities as Jews.

The conventional wisdom about negative political campaigning is that it's ugly and destructive. But is it effective?

More halibut are dumped dead in the ocean as waste than sold by fishermen.

Even now, in the age of Google Maps, its name is synonymous with the unknown edges of the world: welcome to Timbuktu.