New Asian American bakeries find bicultural sweet spot
Traditional Asian bakeries started out as a means of replicating something immigrants missed from their home country. The new bakeries’ bolder assertion of identity is a natural evolution, Binghamton scholar Robert Ji-Song Ku tells The Washington Post. Read more
This is where trolls go after they are banned from mainstream social media
Users who are booted from mainstream platforms often turn to low-moderation sites, according to new research from Binghamton University, Fast Company reports. Read more
Ladino is seeing a virtual renaissance thanks to Zoom
Online courses led by Bryan Kirschen of Binghamton University and others have contributed to a virtual Ladino renaissance, The Forward reports. Read more
The hidden fingerprint inside your photos
Binghamton scholar Jessica Fridrich and other experts explain the “fingerprint” and other details hidden inside your photos in this BBC Future story. Read more
Neanderthals could hear and make the same sounds as humans, new research suggests
Neanderthals, our closest ancestors, could have produced the same sounds as humans today, according to a new study from Binghamton anthropologist Rolf Quam and his colleagues, CNN reports. Read more
Children Are Consuming Hand Sanitizer. Here’s How to Keep Them Safe.
Parents should store hand sanitizer like they do medications, Binghamton’s William Eggleston tells The New York Times. Read more
Don’t crush that ant — it could plant a wildflower
Researchers, including Binghamton biologist Kirsten Prior, discussed the ant-seed relationship at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Science magazine reports. Read more
