Michigan native and HGTV star Nicole Curtis has apologized after a video of her working on a house surfaced of her using a racial slur and her long-running house rehab show was pulled. In the clip, ...

We worked with Microsoft employee Opeoluwa Burnett to document how she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot to power her typical day at work. Meet Opeoluwa Burnett, a lead product manager in Microsoft Digital, ...

This article first appeared on Important Context. It has been republished with the author’s permission. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a press release praising the ...

A Kansas lawmaker added a transgender bathroom ban to a bill concerning gender markers on driver's licenses. The amendment would require people to use government facility restrooms that align with ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

No one likes to do something they find unpleasant. Who among us hasn’t put off icky things such as a tedious work assignment, a fridge deep clean or a difficult conversation? The reason why someone ...

For 25 years, Pew Research Center has tracked some of the biggest technological shifts in history. Note: We conducted polls via phone from 2000 to 2021; via web and mail in 2023; and via web, mail and ...

A major school district in Virginia has adopted new policies to prevent the forced use of trans-identified students’ and teachers’ chosen pronouns, as teachers and students in districts across the ...

Demonstrators rally to show support to the transgender community at the Texas State Capitol on the Trans Day of Visibility, April 2, 2022. (Sheryl Wong for KUT) The state of Texas has continued ...