The library has acquired more than 100 items from the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries; items include sashes and fabrics printed with presidential portraits and scarves that were souvenirs from World Fairs.
'Cyberasociality' (inability or unwillingness to relate to others via social media) is the new dyslexia, sociologists say: a kind of online motion sickness.
Soda taxes and beverage portion size restrictions were unpalatable to the 1,319 U.S. adults questioned in a 2012 survey as part of a study reported online March 10 in the journal Preventive Medicine.
The 2013 Dean’s Fellow in the history of home economics in the College of Human Ecology gave an account of Flemmie Kittrell’s life March 20. Kittrell was the first African-American woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition.
Children in schools with vegetable gardens got 10 minutes more of exercise than before their schools had gardens, reports a study on the benefits of school gardens.
Facial expressions are rooted in emotional responses that exploit how our eyes gather and focus light to detect an unknown threat, reports a study by neuroscientist by Adam Anderson in the journal Psychological Science.
A new study reports that advertising can result in “smart” false memories. That is, consumers who have a propensity to think more about decisions produce more false memories than those who process information at a more superficial level.
An ILR School professor's labor history book, “Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,” has inspired a play, running through March 20 in St. Louis.
