Daylight Saving Time: What the Evidence Shows
What studies show about sleep loss, heart attacks, road crashes and errors after the clocks change, why countries disagree, and the fight over permanent time.
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Tick Bites and Lyme Disease: What the Evidence Shows
How long a tick must be attached, what works after a bite, why US case counts jumped, and what trials of longer antibiotics and a new vaccine found.
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Workplace Bullying: What the Evidence Shows
Around one worker in seven reports bullying, depending on how it is measured. What meta-analyses show about prevalence, health effects, who bullies and which interventions work.
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Phishing Training: What the Evidence Shows
A third of 14,733 employees clicked a test phishing email, and training pages made some click more. What large field studies show about phishing training.
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Turbulence Injuries: What the Evidence Shows
Turbulence causes more than a third of US airline accidents, and most serious injuries fall on flight attendants. Of 26 seriously injured passengers, one wore a seat belt.
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Measles: What the Evidence Shows About the Risk
US measles cases went from 285 in 2024 to 3,471 by September 2026. How contagious measles is, how well the vaccine works, what immune amnesia is, and where the famous numbers are firmer or softer than they sound.
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Fear of Losing a Job Tracked Depression About as Closely as Losing One Did. The Heart Disease Estimate, Once Adjusted, Starts at No Effect.
File photo: an empty office workspace. Photo: Loominade, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · August 2026 A study of 14,827 Swedish workers across six survey waves from 2010 to 2020 found younger workers reported more job insecurity than older ones. In younger workers, job insecurity predicted depressive symptoms two years later, while the…
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Four Weeks of Deliberate Stagnation Grew No Legionella. The Precautionary Flush Afterwards Raised It for a Fortnight.
Stagnation and Legionella are genuinely linked — in dead legs and capped pipe spurs. An empty building is a different claim, and in the one building anyone measured, the standard remedy backfired.
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Job Loss Raised Men’s Death Rate by 44 Per Cent for Four Years, Then the Effect Vanished. Alcohol and Suicide Did Most of It.
File photo: an English Jobcentre Plus office. Photo: Hassocks5489, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · April 2026 The 2026 Economic Report of the President says workers displaced in mass layoffs face 50-100 percent higher mortality in later years, cutting life expectancy by roughly 1 to 1.5 years. It values that loss at about…
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The Four Things Schools Do About Bullying Are the Four the Guidance Says Not To.
Zero tolerance, peer mediation, group treatment and assemblies are all identified as misdirections — and one of them can leave the bullied child worse. What works cuts bullying by about a fifth, and that figure needs a caveat.
