Suggested Readings: Curing Fear, Hugging Dogs, and Teaching While Conservative
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The Right to Legal Counsel
Adequate legal counsel is not provided to many of the poor accused of crimes.
Suggested Readings: Rising Seas, Startup Trouble, Robot Ethics
Extra Credit: JSTOR Daily editors pick stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Man, Interrupting
Do men interrupt more than women? Why? A look at the research on gender and interrupting.
Suggested Readings: Refugee Myths, Gene Manipulation, and the Evils of Alcohol
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Seven Favorite Flower Poems
Our editors pick flower poems from Poetry magazine, American Poetry Review, and the Kenyon Review.
Suggested Readings: Changing Minds, Living Longer, Not Retweeting
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Anthropomorphism’s Pros and Cons
Humans see our own expressions everywhere, especially on dolphins and domesticated pets.
Suggested Readings: The Startup Professor, Ocean Trash, and End of Traffic Lights?
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Menstrual Literacy
In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Pagan Kennedy explored the history of menstrual products. JSTOR scholarship offers further insights.
Everyone’s a Curator
Should the term curator be used broadly or narrowly? Can it cover professional museum curators as well as Pinterest boards?
Suggested Readings: Pain, Grit, and Quinoa
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Suggested Readings: Human resilience, an ancient monster, and Vladimir Putin
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The Urban-Rural Happiness Gradient
People with higher IQs may be happier in the city; they can adjust to the faster pace and more complex lifestyle there.
Suggested Readings: Crocodiles, Cult Killings, and the Anxious Industrial Age
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Bilinguals Do It Better
Recent research by Katherine Kinzler adds to the plethora of evidence that bilinguals enjoy mental advantages.
Suggested Readings: Violence, Viruses, and the Benefits of Chocolate
Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. Brought to you each Tuesday from the editors of JSTOR Daily.
Rethinking College Admissions
It’s news to precisely no one that college admissions still favor the rich. A number of studies in recent years have explored the process.
Suggested Readings: “Super-Predators,” the Smell of Danger, and Sugar Addiction
Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. Brought to you each Tuesday from the editors of JSTOR Daily.
The Importance of Being Outraged
Studies by psychologists, behavioral scientists, political theorists, and economists suggest that moral outrage has social benefits.
Suggested Readings: Coding vs. Sexism, Twitter vs. ISIS, Biology vs. Chemistry
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Jane Austen and Adaptation
In The Atlantic on Sunday, Devony Looser discussed the 20-year-old film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.
Suggested Readings: Sex, Horses, and Gravitational Waves
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