Two US universities—University of Iowa and the State University of New York at Buffalo—are allowing existing students to apply to their law schools without taking the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT).
As of today, marijuana is officially fair game for recreational use in Alaska, joining two other US states. In a majority of US states the substance is now either legal for anyone’s use, legal for medicinal use, or illegal with very little punishment.
Musicians John Legend and Common, who won the only Oscar awarded for Selma, used their time on stage to highlight the injustices still facing African Americans today.
The wide-legged, slouchy skater jeans that ruled in the 1990s are making a comeback, this time as an all-purpose denim brand. WWD first reported (paywall) that JNCO jeans are rebranding under the ownership of a Chinese trading company.
Chai in the West has become synonymous with the overly sweet, oddly spicy blend that Starbucks sells as a Chai Tea Latte. But in India, chai takes on different flavor profiles, snack accompaniments, and even drinking vessels depending on the region or city or town.
Bettering math and science education might be a priority for US president Barack Obama’s administration, but Americans overwhelmingly think the most important skill for children to succeed is something else—communication.
If you want some peace and quiet, get away from people and water and trek to the valleys in between western US mountains.
Carnegie Mellon University accidentally accepted about 800 students to its computer science masters program, only to retract the offer hours later. Gawker earlier today published two emails the university sent to applicants. The first offers admission to the program, and the second—more than six hours later—reads, ”Earlier this morning, we mistakenly sent you an offer of admission to Carnegie Mellon’s MS in CS program. This was an error on our part.”
American millennials are lagging behind their counterparts in other wealthy countries, according to a new report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), a nonprofit that researches, develops, and administers tests.
Getting a job in academia is notoriously difficult. But the odds are especially bad for aspiring professors who didn’t earn their PhDs from a select few universities, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
There’s a new option in Facebook’s security settings—users in the US can select a Facebook friend to be their legacy contact, the company announced today.
The goal of online learning website Coursera is to connect leading names in academia with online students. But as technical skills become more important to employers, the company, one of the biggest online learning platforms globally, has turned to technology companies—Google, Instagram, and Snapdeal to name a few—to help inform students.
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Teenagers who are out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender in high school are likely to face bullying or harassment. However, they also grow into young adults with higher self-esteem than the LGBT teens who kept their sexual or gender identities hidden in adolescence.
People born in the UK since 1960 have more than a 50% chance of developing cancer, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer [via Science Daily]. This likelihood is an increase from the approximately one-in-three lifetime chance faced by people born in 1930.
In case it wasn’t clear: It’s not okay for professors to sleep with undergrads. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (the university’s largest division, comprising the undergraduate Harvard College and many graduate departments) has now made that explicit in a revised policy.
Researchers at Columbia University have developed a gadget that can test for syphilis and HIV via a smartphone or tablet.
Yet another study confirms a warning that many of us ignore on a nightly basis: staring at a screen before bedtime can make you take longer to fall asleep, and then sleep for less time.
Chances are, you can get a bit more flexible with the kids’ bedtime—that’s based on new guidelines from the National Sleep Foundation on the amount of sleep recommended for each age range.
London is now home to more than 8.6 million people, the highest the city’s population has been since 1939. What’s more, 44% of London now consists of black and ethnic minorities, compared to only 28.9% in 2001. That’s according to the Greater London Authority, which serves the London mayor’s office [via the BBC].
Americans, it seems, don’t agree with scientists on very much. According to a new Pew report, the US public’s opinions on topics as varied as the safety of genetically modified foods to climate change and evolution are completely different from how scientists belonging to the American Association for the Advancement of Science see things.
Bill Gates hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything session yesterday, and in between pushing his philanthropic agenda and divulging his Super Bowl pick (Seahawks, duh), the Microsoft co-founder divulged that he is one in a growing list of tech giants who has reservations when it comes to artificial intelligence.
As an undocumented immigrant who moved to California from Mexico as a child, Bianca Rodriguez expected that navigating college would be a challenge, both financially and emotionally. So it was the presence of the Undocumented Student Program that drew Rodriguez to the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now a sophomore.
Girls who drink sugary soda more often are more likely to start their menstrual cycles at a younger age, according to a new study (pdf) out of Harvard Medical School.
