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Who’s Afraid of Math? Study Finds Some Genetic Factors

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2014Education, Scienceanxiety, christopher manser, environmental factors, fraternal twins, genetic factors, math skills, same sex, schockwelle, seismisches echo, zombie stern

Genetics plays a role, but researchers say environment still key

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of math anxiety shows how some people may be at greater risk to fear math not only because of negative experiences, but also because of genetic risks related to both general anxiety and math skills.

The study, which examined how fraternal and identical twins differ on measures of math anxiety, provides a revised view on why some children – and adults – may develop a fear of math that makes it more difficult for them to solve math problems and succeed in school. (more…)

The Right to Vote

By Guest PostOctober 6, 2012Culture, Politicsamerica, american public, bartender, cartogram, christopher uggen, civil war, crime, criminal, criminal history, data, drug offense, electorate, felon disenfranchisement, florida, floridians, former felon, gpa, grad, inmate, jeff manza, kentucky, key battleground, locked out, maine, marker, marriage, minneapolis, minnesota, new york, november, owatonna, policy, policy maker, presidency, right, rob stewart, same sex, sarah shannon, society, states, united states, university, us house, us senate, vermont, virginia, vote, voter id

A lot is up for grabs this November in America—the presidency of the United States, for one. Not to mention a third of U.S. Senate seats, all seats in the U.S. House, and state-level amendments on issues ranging from voter ID to same-sex marriage (Minnesota has both on the ballot).

But almost six million Americans will sit this one out because of something they’ve done. They’re felons—perpetrators, at some point in their lives, of a serious crime. (more…)

(Re-)Writing History

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2012Cultureadam overland, america, american civil rights, american history, civil rights, dale carpenter, first amendment, flagrant conduct, gay, gay rights, lesbian, role of government, same sex, sexual orientation, the new yorker, university of chicago, university of minnesota

University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter’s first book, Flagrant Conduct, took him nearly nine years of research and writing to complete. Research that included, he says, “sitting in police department parking lots at 3 a.m., trying to catch officers going on and off duty so that I could interview them.”

He characterizes the amount of time he put into the book not as a job but as a way of life. If he had been looking for a payoff in writing it, he found it. With reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and this past Sunday, the crème de la crème of the review world—the cover of The New York Times Book Review—it’s clearly a hit with critics. (more…)

History of Sexuality

By Guest PostMarch 6, 2012Cultureamerica, clinical treatment, gay man, happiness, heterosexual marriage, homosexuality, liberal protestant, mid twentieth century, norman vincent peale, prayer, psychiatry, rebecca davis, religious history, same sex, sexuality, university of delaware

UD prof honored for research on sexuality, religion in American history

Rebecca Davis, assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, has received a Religious History Award from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network for her essay titled “‘My Homosexuality Is Getting Worse Every Day’: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.”

Norman Vincent Peale, to whom the title refers, was famous for his self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking. As a renowned Protestant minister, he encouraged people to heal themselves through prayer and believed heterosexual marriage was essential to personal happiness. (more…)

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Teens Singled Out for Punishment

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2010Culture, Generaladd health, adult convictions, arrests, bisexual, courts, gay, hannah brueckner, juvenile convictions, kathryn himmelstein, lesbian, lgb adolescents, lgb youth, misbehaviors, new york city, police, same sex, school authorities, school expulsions, sexual orientation, types of punishment, yale university

Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to be punished by school authorities, police and the courts, according to a study by Yale University researchers. Published in the January 2011 issue of the journal Pediatrics, the study is the first to document excessive punishment of LGB youth nationwide.

“We found that virtually all types of punishment—including school expulsions, arrests, juvenile convictions, adult convictions and especially police stops—were more frequently meted out to LGB youth,” said lead author Kathryn Himmelstein, who initiated the study while she was a Yale undergraduate. The research was supervised by Hannah Brueckner, professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale. (more…)

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Who’s Afraid of Math? Study Finds Some Genetic Factors

The Right to Vote

(Re-)Writing History

History of Sexuality

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Teens Singled Out for Punishment