Ethan Parker is a crime journalist covering breaking crime news across the United States for Project Diada. His beat spans homicide investigations, police manhunts, court trials and public safety stories — from small-town sheriff’s offices to big-city courtrooms. Every story is verified against police statements, court records and reputable newsroom sources before publication. When he is not tracking a developing case, he is digging through crime data and court filings for the next one.
The realization came slowly, over roughly six decades, but it crystallized only recently for one woman now looking back at her life from the vantage point…
Nearly 500 adolescents and their parents were tracked for three years by developmental psychologist Skyler Hawk, and the finding cuts against common sense: when kids felt…
Ask someone for a favor sometime and just watch what happens when they turn you down. “No, I can’t make it Saturday” is all the sentence…
If you’ve ever caught yourself dropping your voice mid-sentence for a phone call about nothing more scandalous than dry cleaning, you’re not being weird. You’re running…
If you’ve ever been mid-conversation and watched a partner drop their voice to a near-whisper over something as mundane as dry cleaning, you’ve probably wondered what’s…
Nearly 500 adolescents and both of their parents were tracked for three years by developmental psychologist Skyler Hawk, who found something that surprises most adults: when…
“A ‘no’ shouldn’t need a footnote,” says one therapist who works with clients on communication patterns. “But for a lot of people, it does, and they…
Going to a gallery or watching a play isn't the same as making art — but a review of evidence suggests it works on mental health through mechanisms of its own.
Two lab experiments found men and women performed equally well at multitasking—except when required to talk while doing other tasks. Men ignored questions more than twice as often, though their answers were just as good when they did respond.
A study of college students found that those with higher inflammation markers were more likely to choose social media over face-to-face interaction, especially if they were introverted or neurotic.
