Top Stories from The News Owl
  • [ November 25, 2025 ] A 65-year-old linguistics framework challenged by modern research Lifestyle
  • [ November 25, 2025 ] Media, sentiment, power: Study shows negative media coverage of migrants triggers discriminatory welfare decisions Society & Politics
  • [ November 25, 2025 ] Can narrating immigrants’ pain and tragedy reduce perceived threat to Muslim immigrants in the US? Lifestyle
  • [ November 25, 2025 ] Are calorie labels on menus worth it? New eye-tracking study reveals hidden patterns Economy
  • [ November 25, 2025 ] The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago: New research Society & Politics
The News Owl
  • Careers
  • Children & Family
  • Home & Decor
  • Education
  • Lifestyle
  • Nature
  • Society & Politics
  • Travel
November 26, 2025
HomeThe Conversation

The Conversation

Special Features

A short guide to some of Africa’s best, and cleanest beaches

The Conversation

Africa has some of the best beaches in the world. Tourists will be flocking to them soon as those in the southern hemisphere take summer holidays and those from the north look for ways to […]

Special Features

Worried about traveling with unvaccinated kids? 6 questions answered on how to manage the risks

The Conversation

Across the U.S., COVID-19 cases are rising again, primarily in unvaccinated populations. Most of these cases are due to the highly infectious delta variant of SARS-Cov-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Many children are among those who aren’t […]

Special Features

If I could go anywhere: India’s Varanasi — a sacred site on a river of rituals and altered states

The Conversation

In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit — and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted. Varanasi, or Banaras as the locals call it, is one of India’s most sacred […]

Careers

Factories of the future: we’re spending heavily to give workers skills they won’t need by 2030

The Conversation

“This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his recent speech on “levelling up”. There is still a fair amount of uncertainty about exactly what the UK prime minister’s plan to level up the […]

Careers

Top football recruits bring in big money for colleges – COVID-19 could threaten revenue

The Conversation

Colleges and universities are spending more than ever to land the nation’s top football recruits, with some schools having boosted their recruiting budgets by more than 300% in the last five years. These budgets can surpass US$2 million […]

Children & Family

Expanding the definition of family to reflect our realities

The Conversation

The second Monday in February is Family Day in parts of Canada. Started in Alberta in 1990, four additional provinces celebrate Family Day: British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick. (Other provinces have holidays reflecting their […]

Home & Decor

Renovating your home could ruin your relationship … but it doesn’t have to

The Conversation

Many Canadians have turned to home renovations to find space — both literally and metaphorically — after a year of working, learning, exercising and doing just about everything else from home. As we head into spring and […]

Home & Decor

What adds value to your house? How to decide between renovating and selling

The Conversation

The government’s HomeBuilder scheme allows certain home owners to apply for a tax-free grant of A$25,000 if they are spending between $150,000 and $750,000 renovating a home or building a new home. Eligibility criteria are strict. The scheme has […]

Home & Decor

Have you tested your home for cancer-causing radon gas?

The Conversation

Back in 2013, in my first winter in my newly renovated Calgary home, I spent $45 on a radon testing kit. This was a logical move. I am an assistant professor in the Cumming School […]

Children & Family

How intimate partner violence affects children’s health

The Conversation

Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, but often it doesn’t work out that way. Children are exposed to all the stresses and strains that affect the families and communities in which they grow […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 »

Top Stories

  • Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams

    It’s popular advice for new graduates: “Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Love for one’s work, Americans are often told, is the surest route to success.This post [...]
  • Is the ‘hot hand’ real? ‘Jeopardy!’ offers clues

    Stanford researchers found that contestants bet bigger on Daily Doubles when they’re on a streak—even though their performance barely budges.This post was originally published on this site
  • Black Friday is stressful—that’s on purpose: Q&A

    With Black Friday approaching, the holiday shopping frenzy is in full swing. Retailers are pulling out all the stops to capitalize on the season of gift giving and consumer culture. But why is it that [...]

Highlights

  • Are calorie labels on menus worth it? New eye-tracking study reveals hidden patterns
  • Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity
  • Treating love for work like a virtue can backfire on employees and teams
WHAT’S NEW
  • Intensive NYC housing remediation effort cut violations in half but did not yield immediate health improvements
  • Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: The world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions
  • Your bank is already using AI. But what’s coming next could be radically new
  • Older Australians living in private rentals disproportionately exposed to housing precarity
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • Researchers develop a system that helps block illegal timber from entering the EU market
  • New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
  • Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands
  • WeChat is now a front-line policing tool in China—here’s what the research found
Last Thoughts:
  • One university boosted gender diversity in advanced math by more than 30% in five years—here’s how
  • The key academic skill you’ve probably never heard of—and four ways to encourage it

TERMS OF USE

PRIVACY POLICY

CONTACT US

© 2024 TheNewsOwl.com - Your Top News & Lifestyle Stories