ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Michigan State University. Michigan State University is a major public research university with strengths across agriculture, medicine, engineering, environmental science, education and the life sciences. Its researchers are advancing work in areas such as food systems, plant and animal health, neuroscience, sustainability and biomedical innovation, with a strong emphasis on research that addresses practical challenges and improves lives.
Word counts across 38,467 songs by 230 popular artists show positive emotion and social words mostly sliding within careers and across generations, though anxiety words crept up. The pattern is an association, not a cause.
Across 20,118 adults in all 50 states, childfree prevalence ran from 22% in California to 9.4% in Louisiana, yet no region emerged: the map is scattered, and state policy levers look unlikely to shift it.