| By Gale Staff | From Kyiv to Kharkiv to the seaport town of Odessa, the people of Ukraine are living on a battlefield. Millions of people, their homes, their businesses, their way of life destroyed or abandoned after Putin’s invasion in February 2022. The war in Ukraine began Europe’s first major war in decades, … Read more
| By Gale Staff | I was reading a recent Pew Research study about issues challenging teens today. Anxiety, depression, vaping of nicotine and marijuana, bullying, and cyberbullying are among the issues. According to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emergency visits for suspected suicide attempts in teens significantly increased during … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | For Women’s History Month 2022, we’re excited to spotlight some intriguing profiles of trailblazing women over the ages in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Essays inside Gale In Context: Science offer illuminating details about the lives and achievements of these pioneers who broke through barriers to … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner | The January 13, 2022 explosion of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, an undersea volcano located about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu, sent powerful blasts of ash, steam, and volcanic gases up to 25 miles (40 km) high into the atmosphere. The explosion formed a … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | Women’s History Month began to celebrate daring and determined activists. But it also reminds us that the struggle for full equality under the law is essentially a fight against the female body itself. In the war on equality, the opposition has proven itself to be a deft adapter of increasingly … Read more
| By Rachel Holt, Gale Primary Sources Acquisitions Editor | The ideologies held by modern extremist groups can often be linked to events of the past, and can have an influence on contemporary events. Such is the case of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to unique data retrieved from Gale’s … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Before you get stuck in the snow, here are some items to keep in your vehicle and some tips on how to get moving again from ChiltonLibrary. First, some items to keep in your vehicle: Small or collapsible shovel Boots (if you don’t regularly wear them) Sturdy pair of gloves … Read more
| By Thorndike Staff | March, That Abyss between Cozy Hibernation and Jubilant Spring Facing the long month of March, we’re going to avoid referencing the “best of times, the worst of times” because the “best” feels too generous. Could, in fact, March have driven the woman in the supermarket mad? Originally published in 1966, … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | Welcome to another week in which we highlight a few of the thousands of intriguing biographical essays to be found in Gale In Context: Biography, an immensely rich and comprehensive resource for learners of (nearly) all ages. This week’s category of women who broke a few rules/talked back/failed to conform/cleared … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale Academic OneFile Archives of Health Science and Research (AVES) Peer-reviewed Annual Proceedings of the South African Statistical Association Conference (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed The Washington Post Videos (The Washington Post) Gale General OneFile familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family … Read more