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More tooth loss is associated with greater cognitive decline and dementia in elderly people.

JAMDA

Health

Compared to traditional lectures, active learning with in-class participation improves student exam scores and passing rates in undergraduate STEM classes, especially for minoritized students.

Education

Medical cannabis and cannabinoids may improve sleep for people with chronic pain. Side effects, however, may include nausea, dizziness, diarrhea, and fatigue.

Health
Sleep

Mangrove trees protect against flooding, but their populations have shrunk significantly due to habitat loss.

Environment

More fried food servings per week is associated with greater chance of major cardiovascular events like heart attacks.

BMJ
CNN

Black Americans benefit less from speech-recognition technology than White Americans because these systems make more mistakes with Black voices.

Education

Black applicants are less likely to receive funding for highly competitive NIH research grants than White applicants.

Health

When memories are connected by a story, even if they are separated in time and place, they become linked together. Forming a narrative connection between memories makes them easier to recall.

Natural disaster relief advertisements about loss are more effective at increasing willingness to donate when the story is told from a first-person (rather than third-person) perspective.

JICRCR

Persuasion

Companion dogs who were trained using punishments, such as yelling or leash-jerking, had higher levels of stress than dogs trained using reward-based methods.