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American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education-related inequality in work hours and income has grown. These changes, says Suzanne Bianchi, pose differing work-life issues for parents at different points along the income distribution. Between 1975 and 2009, the labor force ...

Measures of brain function are used today in many areas of psychological research, and developmental psychology is no exception. The infusion of cognitive neuroscience into psychology has been met variably with enthusiasm, skepticism, and opposition. The most productive attitude towards this sea change, I maintain, consists of a healthy dose of both enthusiasm and skepticism [see also Kagan, 20...

Fifty years after the founding of the field of medical anthropology, the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association held its first independent meeting on September 24-27, 2009, at Yale University.

This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely avail...