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The New York Times
Want a healthier brain in 2026? Sign up for Well’s 5-Day Challenge
It should come as no surprise that how you treat your brain is essential to your health, longevity and happiness. Researchers who ran the POINTER trial attest to this. Jeffrey Katula, McDonough Family Faculty Fellow in the Wake Forest Department of Health and Exercise Science, worked to design and implement the intervention with the study’s principal investigator Laura D. Baker, Ph.D., a professor of gerontology and geriatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The study included regular support group meetings for the participants. The accountability and community those meetings provided were key to helping 89% of people stick with the trial for two years.
December 15, 2025
MarketWatch
How much tech stock is too much in your portfolio right now? 7 financial experts weigh in
“For a passive investor, there really isn’t an easy way to say how much is too much tech. It’s simply part of the structure of today’s market,” said Deon Strickland, financial adviser and finance professor at Wake Forest University.
December 15, 2025
Business Insider
Many of us are open to engaging in dishonest behaviors when we think we can get away with them and have something to gain, explains philosophy professor Christian Miller. "You don't see people in life often cheating in dramatic ways or stealing in dramatic ways, because they think they're going to get caught, and also, it's hard to continue to think of yourself as an honest person if you do," he said. "When the opportunity arises to cheat or steal in some minor way, we're willing to overlook that, because we can still think of ourselves as honest people, rationalize it, and benefit in the process."
December 14, 2025
Miami Herald
Migration and crime fears propel Chile to the right in presidential vote
"Kast's election underscores the depth of Chile's crisis of confidence in political institutions," said politics professor Peter Siavelis "The result is best understood as another expression of distrust toward political elites and governing arrangements, rather than a mandate for a conservative transformation of Chilean society."
December 14, 2025
Bloomberg News
Kast’s landslide win propels Chile into US-led conservative orbit
Peter Siavelis, an expert on Latin American politics, provided expert commentary in this article on ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast's landslide victory in Chile’s presidential election, which harnessed voter anger over crime and migration to drive the country into its most dramatic rightward shift in decades. With nearly 100% of ballots counted, Kast received 58% of the vote and swept all 16 regions of Chile.
December 14, 2025
The Daily Upside
In casinos, the house always wins. What about prediction markets?
"Regular people who do not trade in these markets at all can pop open Polymarket or Kalshi and draft on all this knowledge of all these smart people,” said economics professor Koleman Strumpf. “And sure, you could try to read a bunch of articles to distill that same bit of information, but A, instead of five seconds, you’ll spend five hours, and B, none of those sources will actually probably answer the question that you really want to know at the end of the day.”
December 14, 2025
Ceylon Today
US–China rivalry will define the 21st century — but only one can shape the rules
“The biggest challenge for global stability in this century is the rivalry between the United States and China. And it will determine who shapes the rules of the international order.” With this uncompromising statement, politics professor Neil DeVotta opened his presentation in Colombo in December, immediately pulling his audience into the gravity of a geopolitical contest that has already reshaped global politics and will continue to mould the future.
December 12, 2025
The Atlantic
Somalia is what ‘America First’ looks like
Somalia, where two terror groups are locked in a long-standing battle, should have been an ideal place for President Donald Trump to showcase his “America First” commitment to international disengagement. “We simplistically hear the name ISIS and immediately assume that the group is a threat to the U.S.,” said politics professor Will Walldorf. “Some have gravitated to the name to raise funds and recruit, but they are not comparable to the ISIS we knew in Iraq and Syria at the height of the caliphate.”
December 11, 2025
Forbes
Your AI habits today will determine your career value tomorrow
"AI is doing to knowledge work what industrial automation did to physical labor. As these tools handle more cognitive tasks, we risk mental atrophy from disuse. The difference? We are watching it happen in real time," writes business professor Shannon McKeen. "Short-term productivity gains from AI automation are real and immediate. But if your workforce stops thinking deeply because AI handles all cognitive labor, you’re trading today’s efficiency for tomorrow’s judgement capacity."
December 9, 2025
Popular Science
Female Galápagos birds flaunt their sexual partners. The males don’t seem to mind.
The Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Female Nazca boobies will openly mate with potentially dozens of males before settling on a parenting partner. One female was observed in trysts with 16 partners before settling on her mate. “She’s copulating with other males in the lead up to the breeding season, but genetic data showed that they’re never the father of her children. This reconciles evidence that females are shopping around, but it never results in fertilized eggs in the end,” Anderson said. “These flings are sex, but not reproduction,” said biologist David Anderson.
December 9, 2025
The Olympian
Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away − a bioethicist explains why
Ana Iltis, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and professor of philosophy, writes: "As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely than white Americans to develop kidney failure. While Black people constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, they account for 35% of those with kidney failure." The article originally appeared in The Conversation.
December 6, 2025
USA Today
Will Venezuela buckle under Trump? Maduro wouldn’t be the first to fall
U.S. involvement in removing (Chilean President Salvador) Allende was indirect but crucial, said Peter Siavelis, a Wake Forest University political science professor. "The U.S. was not materially involved in the actual coup," but "the United States put Humpty Dumpty on the wall, the U.S. made Humpty Dumpty super unstable and made it really easy for Pinochet to come along and push him off the wall." According to Siavelis, the outcome would likely be worse in Venezuela, where democracy has not been effectively practiced for decades and where the country is heavily fragmented between regional powerbrokers loyal to Maduro. "Overthrowing a regime as weak as Maduro’s is easy. What’s really hard is stabilizing a polarized country where there was no democratic tradition or infrastructure, as we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan."
December 5, 2025