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Suicide is a major public health challenge with complex social, emotional, and economic causes and effects. This year for World Suicide Prevention Day, the World Health Organization is calling on people to “Start the Conversation” with the goal of “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”—raising awareness, reducing stigma, and encouraging open dialog to prevent suicides. If…

Labor Day has its origins in the late 1800s, when many Americans—including children—worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, often in brutal and dangerous conditions. On September 5, 1882, an estimated 10,000 workers in New York marched in protest, calling for “Less Work and More Pay,” including an eight-hour workday and a ban…

Women’s Equality Day commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment in the U.S., granting women the right to vote and sparking conversations on the ongoing fight for gender equality globally. In the ocean sciences, women in the U.S. earn more than half of all doctorates and fill a growing number of early-career positions. Yet substantial…