Nagata, an eating disorder researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, says negative body image attitudes in boys often stem from the feeling that they aren't muscular enough. A small share of those young men develop an obsession with getting bigger and more muscular — also called bigorexia. (Ruprecht, NPR)
Read MoreThe Jan. 7 fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has become a Rorschach test of sorts, with extreme viewpoints amplified through social media. (Barkley, Baptist Press)
Read MoreWhile watching football playoff games over the next few days, you may see a new ad, called “America. The Beautiful.” It's part of a $9 million marketing campaign drawn up by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank known for its influential “Project 2025” blueprint. (Waddick, USA Today)
Read MoreWhen Wikipedia went online on 15 January 2001, it was the brainchild of two men: Jimmy Wales, an internet entrepreneur with a libertarian streak, and Larry Sanger, a philosopher who became its first editor-in-chief. Their collaboration lasted only a little over a year — but the tension between their visions still shapes the project today. (Haas, DW)
Read MoreThe global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams — 43% — were from tracks released in the last five years (2021 - 2025. (Sherman, AP News)
Read MoreThe United States saw a total of 76 million births during the boom, with the annual number surpassing 4 million in 1954 and remaining above that level until 1965. The annual number of births would not surpass 4 million again until 1989. (Fry, Pew Research Center)
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