News SEP 20, 2026

FAFSA Changed Again For 2027. Some Families Will Get Less Aid Without Ever Knowing Why.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD
FAFSA Changed Again For 2027. Some Families Will Get Less Aid Without Ever Knowing Why.
The 2027-28 FAFSA, expected to open by October 1, 2026, carries forward a rule that didn't exist before the current award cycle: any applicant whose Student Aid Index is equal to or greater than twice the maximum Federal Pell Grant award is now automatically ineligible for a Pell Grant, no...
A Seventh-Grader Built An Underwater Robot And Tested Twelve Ponds. The Water Data Surprised Everyone.
News SEP 20, 2026

A Seventh-Grader Built An Underwater Robot And Tested Twelve Ponds. The Water Data Surprised Everyone.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

Caden Terence Pohlkamp, then a seventh-grader at Brookside Intermediate School in Friendswood, Texas, built a small remotely operated vehicle that could reach the bottom of a retention pond and bring back a water sample, then ran it through 12 different ponds around his community, according to his own project profile...

Entry-Level Hiring Fell Faster Than The Rest Of The Job Market. AI Isn't The Main Reason.
News SEP 19, 2026

Entry-Level Hiring Fell Faster Than The Rest Of The Job Market. AI Isn't The Main Reason.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

Entry-level job postings on Indeed were down 6.3 percent as of May 2026 compared with January 2025, while postings for senior-level roles rose 13.5 percent over the same period, according to the Indeed Hiring Lab's July 2026 analysis of its own posting data. Entry-level postings have been declining since they...

Letting Someone Cut Ahead When They're Rushed Says More About You Than Politeness.
News SEP 19, 2026

Letting Someone Cut Ahead When They're Rushed Says More About You Than Politeness.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

Viral advice articles have taken to describing the person who waves a rushed stranger ahead in line as displaying a fixed set of psychological traits, variations on emotional intelligence, situational awareness and a "flexible ego." The actual research on everyday helping behavior, running back more than fifty years, points somewhere...

Community College Enrolment Is Rising. Only A Fraction Ever Reach A Four-Year Degree.
News SEP 18, 2026

Community College Enrolment Is Rising. Only A Fraction Ever Reach A Four-Year Degree.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

Only 18.0 percent of students who began their postsecondary education at a community college in fall 2018 had earned a bachelor's degree within six years, according to the Tracking Transfer report published by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center in March 2026. That finding covers nearly 830,000 first-time, degree-seeking students...

News SEP 18, 2026

The Hardest Part Of Growing Old Isn't Being Alone. Ageing Researchers Named It Decades Ago.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD
The Hardest Part Of Growing Old Isn't Being Alone. Ageing Researchers Named It Decades Ago.
Gerontologists have had a name for the specific pain of outliving the people who knew you across decades since 1969, when psychologist Robert Kastenbaum coined the term "bereavement overload" to describe what happens when losses arrive faster than a person can grieve each one, in his book Death and Bereavement....
Apprentices Get Paid From Day One And Finish Debt-Free. Only Some Trades Lead Anywhere.
News SEP 17, 2026

Apprentices Get Paid From Day One And Finish Debt-Free. Only Some Trades Lead Anywhere.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

Fewer than 35 percent of people who start a registered apprenticeship in the United States actually finish one, according to 2021 Department of Labor data cited in a 2023 research brief from the American Institutes for Research, produced with the electrical training ALLIANCE. That figure sits underneath a genuinely rare...

Returning Your Shopping Cart Became A Personality Test Online. The Research Says Something Much Smaller.
News SEP 17, 2026

Returning Your Shopping Cart Became A Personality Test Online. The Research Says Something Much Smaller.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

The "shopping cart theory," the claim that whether someone returns a shopping cart to its corral reveals whether they are a good or bad member of society, originated in an anonymous post on the 4chan message board's /pol/ section on May 8, 2020, according to Know Your Meme's documented history...

Global IQ Scores Are Falling. Researchers Now Know Why.
News AUG 27, 2026

Global IQ Scores Are Falling. Researchers Now Know Why.

by Imed Bouchrika, PhD

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