The battle over higher education: A movement to punish the Ivy League is gaining steam — but is it going too far?

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2025/08/28/ackman-trump-political-crisis-in-higher-education/

Cleansing the Brain–TCM Strategies to Guard Against Toxin-Driven Cognitive Decline: Ancient practices are being used in new ways to help keep the brain healthy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/cleansing-the-brain-tcm-strategies-to-guard-against-toxin-driven-cognitive-decline-5884738

Opinion: When students choose silence and violence — the collapse of free speech on campus

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/09/19/debates-free-speech-on-campus-matter-to-american-civic-life/

Are Some People Addicted to Revenge? A new book explores what drives the brain’s sometimes insatiable quest for vengeance

https://nautil.us/are-some-people-addicted-to-revenge-1238041/

The 21 grams experiment that tried to weigh a human soul: In 1907, Duncan MacDougall put dying patients on a scale.

https://www.popsci.com/science/21-grams-experiment/

Corruption: When norms upstage the law: People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-corruption-interplays-with-social-norms

Analysis: How does an individual get politically radicalized? Radicalization happens on both sides of the political spectrum. Whenever it does happen, there are common patterns

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/09/17/how-political-radicalization-happens/

What to know about zarfs, the fanciest way to drink coffee

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5541377/word-language-history-zarf-turkey-coffee-java-jacket

Russell M. Nelson: We All Deserve Dignity and Respect

https://time.com/7315003/russell-nelson-dignity-respect/

The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A: In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/harvard-college-grade-inflation/684021/

Canada Is Killing Itself: The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/

 It doesn’t feel quite right to say that Canada slid down a slippery slope, because keeping off the slope never seems to have been the priority. But on one point Etienne Montero, the former head of the European Institute of Bioethics, was correct: When autonomy is entrenched as the guiding principle, exclusions and safeguards eventually begin to seem arbitrary and even cruel. This is the tension inherent in the euthanasia debate, the reason why the practice, once set in motion, becomes exceedingly difficult to restrain.

Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/12/balcony-solar-plug-in-rooftop/

The Monster at the Dinner Table: Doctors are seeing rising cases of ARFID, a childhood disorder that shuts off the basic human instinct to eat.

https://www.thecut.com/article/what-is-arfid-eating-disorder-kids-diagnosis-rising.html

It turns out there’s a right and wrong way to pee

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/28/peeing-pelvic-floor-bladder-incontinence/

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now: The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Why Marriage Survives: The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/marriage-institution-value-comeback/683564/

How Monopoly games rescued POWs from German prison camps

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author-Q-As/2025/0725/monopoly-x-philip-orbanes-world-war-2

Want More Self-Control? The Secret Isn’t Willpower.: People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/well/mind/self-control-willpower.html

Operation Halyard: A Daring World War II Rescue Serbian patriots gave everything they had to rescue American airmen in 1944.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/operation-halyard-a-daring-world-war-ii-rescue-5886795

The Mistake Parents Make With Chores: Shooing young children away from the kitchen and the laundry can have a lasting effect.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/children-parents-housework-chores/683606/

How Pornography Taxes the Brain and Emotions The new study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, gives insights into how frequent pornography use may rewire the brain.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/pornography-pays-in-pleasure-but-taxes-your-brain-and-emotions-5881367

Can This Man Save Harvard?: To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/alan-garber-harvard-trump/683592/

What I learned about loneliness when my husband was hospitalized: Loneliness is an epidemic, but it isn’t a natural occurrence. It happens by design — and it’s a design we can fix

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/07/13/loneliness-epidemic-public-health-isolation-solutions/

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine: How the left ended up disbelieving the science

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/transgender-youth-skrmetti/683350/

17 Out-of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands—or Millions—of Years Ago

https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/17-out-of-place-artifacts-that-suggest-high-tech-civilizations-existed-thousands-or-millions-of-years-ago-4809944

Airport Hasn’t Lost a Bag In 30 Years since its Opening in 1994—Here’s How

https://www.ganjingworld.com/news/1hm55a1hp9a432dUsFuiCJEio1771c/airport-hasnt-lost-a-bag-in-30-years-since-its-opening-in-1994heres-how

The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/2025/07/the-world-bank-set-out-to-transform-health-care-for-the-poor-in-africa-it-drove-patients-deeper-into-poverty/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose: Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340/

10 concrete steps towards eradicating sexual violence against women: Patterns across 285 studies point towards 10 interventions that can work together to help prevent violence against women

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2025/06/22/reducing-sexual-violence-against-women/

The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense: We all face uncivil behavior or insulting comments at times, but you can choose how to react.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/art-self-control-provocation/683205/

Surveillance pricing: How your data determines what you pay

https://protonvpn.com/blog/surviellance-pricing

The Great Egg Heist: 280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/eggs-prices-gouging-cal-maine-investigation/

What is the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the U.S. bunker-busting bomb?: Iran’s hardened, underground nuclear sites are impervious to most conventional weapons — except perhaps the U.S.-made 30,000-pound, deep-penetrating bomb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/17/massive-ordnance-penetrator-iran-bunker-buster/

AI Obituary Pirates Are Exploiting Our Grief: I Tracked One Down to Find Out Why After the death of my sister, I was pulled into the troubling world of AI-written obituaries. This is what I learned about grief, scams and the people behind the words.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/ai-obituary-pirates-are-exploiting-our-grief-i-tracked-one-down-to-find-out-why/#ftag=CAD590a51e

A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’: What if overcoming trauma can be painless?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/ptsd-trauma-veterans-treatment-rtm/683003/

Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5106845/isis-syria-terrorism-detention-camps

The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun: In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/conservative-professors-dei-initiatives/682944/

The Utopian Promises and Novelty Cheese of a Discount Grocery Store

https://tastecooking.com/the-utopian-promises-and-novelty-cheese-of-a-discount-grocery-store/

From Messiaen to Radiohead: How great music uses prime numbers

https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/from-messiaen-to-radiohead-how-great-music-uses-prime-numbers/

How to Disappear: Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/extreme-personal-data-privacy-protection/682867/

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths: If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/darvo-sociopath-gaslighting/682372/

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/kennedy-ultraprocessed-food-dyes.html

The Price of Remission

https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma

North Korea Stole Your Job: For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/ 

B.A. for $6K: BYU-Pathway pioneers three-year degree for four-figure price tag

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/30/ba-6k-byu-pathway-pioneers-three-year-degree-four-figure-price-tag/ 

End of 10

https://endof10.org/

The "End of 10" project wants to save aging PCs with Linux instead of Windows 11: As Windows 10 support ends, 240 million PCs face obsolescence

https://www.techspot.com/news/107819-end-10-project-wants-save-aging-pcs-linux.html 

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

How losing all my free time forced me to rethink productivity: Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/how-running-out-of-free-time-made-me-rethink-productivity-entirely/

The great conclave secret: What do would-be popes eat?

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250430-the-secrets-of-feeding-the-papal-conclave

How to Check if a Car is Stolen (for Free): Use these free ways to check if a vehicle has been stolen before you make a purchase

https://www.iseecars.com/articles/how-to-check-if-a-car-is-stolen-for-free

Do twins become allergic to the same things?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250425-do-twins-become-allergic-to-the-same-things

The People Making Millions off Listerine Royalties: A little-known provision in a 100-year-old contract opened up the door for private investors to mint money from mouthwash sales.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-people-making-millions-off-listerine-royalties

The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o

7 Shocking Facts About Drinking Water Cold Vs. Room Temperature: Read on for more facts about cold versus room temperature water, according to experts.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/7-shocking-facts-about-drinking-water-cold-vs-room-temperature

There’s no such thing as ‘background music.’ Here’s how your playlist affects your brain: These methods can help you to use music to hack your productivity goals.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91318766/music-productivity-heres-how-playlist-affects-brain

It’s not just the religious conservative schools wondering now if they need to forgo federal funding

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/04/18/liberal-and-conservative-campuses-question-federal-funding/

Notre Dame professor: BYU-Pathway Worldwide may become Latter-day Saints’ ‘biggest gift to the world’

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/04/11/byu-pathway-worldwide-latter-day-saints-gift-to-the-world/

Why You Almost Never See a Clock at the Mall

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall

The Happiness Trinity: Why it’s so hard to answer the question “What makes us happiest?”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-happiness-trinity

Columbia University’s Anti-Semitism Problem: If the bullying of Jewish students had happened to any other group, the institution would be appalled.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-antisemitism-israel-palestine-trump/682054/

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats: I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats/ 

Can You Think Yourself Young? Research shows that a positive attitude to ageing can lead to a longer, healthier life, while negative beliefs can have hugely detrimental effects.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-you-think-yourself-young

Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain: Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/five-surprising-ways-exercise-changes-your-brain

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis

How Progressives Froze the American Dream: The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/

Is it a crime to be in the country illegally? We answer your questions

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/02/05/uncertain-immigration-status-distinctions/

Colossal squid: The eerie ambassador from the abyss

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250130-colossal-squid-the-eerie-ambassador-from-the-abyss

Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/time-to-delete-the-most-invasive-apps-list-includes-some-of-your-favorites

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

https://www.llrx.com/2025/01/fake-papers-are-contaminating-the-worlds-scientific-literature-fueling-a-corrupt-industry-and-slowing-legitimate-lifesaving-medical-research/

In a first, scientists find microplastics are building up deep in our brains: A new study shows that microplastics have crossed the blood-brain barrier -- and that their numbers are rising.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/03/microplastics-human-brain-increase/

How wildlife survives after wildfires

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250128-how-wildlife-survives-after-wildfires

The Benefit of Doing Things You’re Bad At: To learn a difficult new skill means risking failure—but it’s also a path to greater happiness.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/to-succeed-fail-better/681492/

The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html

Church says Texas town not standing by settlement reached for the McKinney Texas Temple: The town of Fairview and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints negotiated a smaller temple in November. The agreement may be unraveling and the church may seek legal remedy

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/01/27/church-fairview-town-mckinney-texas-temple-rluipa/