Fostering acceptance of sexual minorities in the Hispanic community
Coming out to your parents can be a difficult and sensitive process for a person at any age. But for Hispanic teens, sharing that information can become even more challenging......»»
In five years, this Australian astrophysics lab reached 50% women. Here"s how they did it
Many organizations, from community sporting groups to the United Nations, have set themselves a target of gender parity: ensuring half of staff or members are women. Gender parity is desirable because training and retaining equal halves of a populati.....»»
Crime-free housing policies increase evictions among minorities, but do not cut crime
Policies that encourage landlords to evict tenants who have involvement with the criminal justice system do not appear to reduce crime, while increasing evictions among Black residents and people with lower incomes, according to a new RAND Corporatio.....»»
Community-driven analysis identifies strategies to improve equity in Los Angeles" clean energy transition
After two years of robust modeling and gathering input from over 100 community members, 14 community-based organizations, and 31 additional stakeholder organizations in Los Angeles, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.....»»
What does it mean to be asexual?
In recent years, we've seen a burgeoning social movement for the acceptance of asexuality. We've also seen more asexual characters popping up in shows such as Heartstopper and Sex Education......»»
Devo Collective Defense empowers security teams with community-driven threat intelligence
Devo Technology has launched Devo Collective Defense, a threat intelligence feed within the Devo Security Data Platform that provides community-based intelligence sharing of threat activity and trends. Devo is also unveiling updates to Devo Exchange.....»»
New report outlines microbial solutions to mediate methane emissions
The American Academy of Microbiology has released a new report, The Role of Microbes in Mediating Methane Emissions. The report highlights recommendations to further the scientific community's understanding of microbial processes of methane productio.....»»
Pacific rainbow+ communities face discrimination, conversion therapy
The need to increase Pacific and Rainbow+ leadership was a major finding in the Manalagi project, the first and largest research of its kind addressing the health and well-being of Aotearoa, New Zealand's Pacific Rainbow+ community......»»
Trust in science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans
A new poll examines how the US public views science and scientists. Enlarge (credit: AaronAmat) On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center released its latest look at how the US public views scientists and the scientific endeav.....»»
Six newly discovered beetle species include one with bottle-opener shaped genitalia
Six new beetle species have been discovered in South America by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Among them is one with a distinctively shaped sexual organ that has led the researchers to name it after global beer powerhouse Carlsberg. Ac.....»»
NASA wants to learn to live off the land on the moon
In preparation for the upcoming Artemis missions to the lunar south pole, NASA recently solicited a request for information (RFI) from the lunar community to map out its future Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration for.....»»
Omegle changed cybersex forever, for better or worse
Omegle is shutting down 14 years after its creation. Here's how the anonymous video chat site changed cybersex and sexual communication, for better or worse. Picture this. It’s 2009. You’ve just finished school and you’re head.....»»
Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests
Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the social-behavioral sciences, especially psychology. Several large scale studies attempted to reproduce previously published findings.....»»
Open Source Hardware Certifications For October 2023
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. The post Open Source Hardware Certifications For October 2023 appea.....»»
SUSE boosts cloud native portfolio to enhance customer productivity
SUSE released Rancher Prime 2.0, enhancing customers’ ability to manage heterogeneous, multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments securely and at scale. SUSE also revealed updates to Rancher community edition, SLE Micro 5.5 and the future of SUSE Edge......»»
The 14 best sitcoms on Netflix right now (November 2023)
The best sitcoms on Netflix include Lopez vs. Lopez, The Upshaws, iCarly, Fuller House, Seinfeld, Community, Arrested Development, and more!.....»»
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
An increasingly volatile online environment is affecting our society, including members of the academic community and research they pursue......»»
"I blew the whistle on Meta, now I won"t work again"
Former senior staffer Arturo Béjar claims Instagram is not doing enough to protect teens from sexual harassment......»»
MITRE partners with Microsoft to address generative AI security risks
MITRE and Microsoft have added a data-driven generative AI focus to MITRE ATLAS, a community knowledge base that security professionals, AI developers, and AI operators can use as they protect AI-enabled systems. This new framework update and associa.....»»
Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns
The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica's McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base......»»
How organizations can address toxic workplace cultures to tackle sexual harassment
Sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Canadian workplaces, and organizations are not doing enough to address it. A 2022 report by the Canadian Labour Congress indicates nearly one in two workers have experienced sexual harassment in the prev.....»»