Beginning March 11, 2024, North Carolinians will be able to legally place sports bets online, the effects are already evident with ads virtually everywhere: social media, billboards, television and even podcasts. Rosa Li with the University of North Carolina at … Read more
Super Tuesday is over, and the matchup for North Carolina’s 76th governor is set. Now, the actual race begins. … In a poll from Meredith College, taken before Super Tuesday results, a presumptive match-up between Josh Stein and Mark Robinson … Read more
A research team at UNC is studying how amyloid plaque forms in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients in hopes of developing breakthrough treatments for the disease. “If we understand how (amyloid plaque) forms, can we understand how to deform them, … Read more
A civil rights movement in Durham shocked the nation when Black movie patrons refused to accept “no” for an answer at white ticket booths. At Carolina Theatre, Black patrons were restricted to the top balcony – and it took a … Read more
Alexei Navalny was asked four years ago what he’d tell Russians if he were killed for challenging President Vladimir Putin. “You’re not allowed to give up,” he told a documentary maker. “If they decide to kill me, it means we … Read more
Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a professor of practical theology and pastoral care at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia, has an unusual approach to Lent. Instead of giving up chocolate or fasting, “sometimes I’ll say I’m giving up self-neglect,” she told me. … … Read more
Body language and the understanding thereof is a crucial part of communication. It is often assumed that humans can innately recognize other’s emotions, but there is growing evidence that the ability to decipher these emotions is not instinctive but shaped … Read more
Expressing gratitude helps bring us closer to our partner. Among relationship-promoting behaviors, the role of gratitude has some of the strongest scientific evidence behind it, said Sara Algoe, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and … Read more
Conversations abound about the impact of the American working class on our nation’s politics. But all too often, African-Americans are not included in these conversations, even though they have been essential to our country’s productivity ever since the days of … Read more
China’s baby bust is happening faster than many expected, raising fears of a demographic collapse. And coping with the fallout may now be complicated by miscalculations made more than 40 years ago. … Once a generation of young people has … Read more
