According to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research organization, at the close of the 2021 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students in America, an all-time high, and men only 40.5%.That's a dramatic change from the late 1960s when about 58% of college students were men. Today, many more women are making the decision to pursue higher education while the percentage of men going off to college has remained flat. Because of thi

Not satisfied with a legislative session that curtailed voting rights and made it nearly impossible to obtain a legal, safe abortion, Texas Gov Greg Abbott has again summoned lawmakers back to Austin to address additional right-wing priorities ahead of his reelection bid in 2022. He has called for another special legislative session in order to deal with some housekeeping matters [redistricting] and the nonexistent problem of transgender student athletes running amok in the s

I've always been fascinated with folks that can mix and match some thrift store gems with a designer label or two to create their own bold and unique fashion statement. It's an art that few people can pull off and, let's face it, most of us don't even try. There has always been people with a heightened fashion sense, but over the last two decades because of the web and, specifically, sites like Facebook and Instagram, there has been an uptick in interest in what has become kn

The first surviving video recording we know of was the Roundhay Garden Scene. The silent, 2 second film was filmed at the Whitely Family house in Roundhay, Great Britain in 1888. By the 1890s short films were more common and they give us some insight into life in that era. The fascinating compilation film above contains shorts from some of the world's great cities including London, Paris, Jerusalem, Moscow, and New York. You have to wonder if any of the individuals in the fo

In May we highlighted research demonstrating that individuals with lower levels of education were more likely to believe common conspiracy theories. Two new surveys have found that belief in such theories is also tied to religiosity, with white evangelical Protestants much more likely to believe in even the most absurd conspiracies. A recent Economist/YouGov. survey found that almost 70% of white evangelicals believe former President Donald Trump's various lies about "million

The city of Charlottesville, Va., recently removed statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, monuments that were at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017. Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have labeled such actions as examples of "cancel culture," which has become a rallying cry of the right over the last few years. They would cite the Trump Twitter ban, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's removal from her committee assignm