Researching Lyme disease vaccines + violating the Hatch Act | Top 5

+ millions of Americans can't afford affordable housing US Edition - Today's top story: The ‘great resignation’ is a trend that began before the pandemic – and bosses need to get used to it [View in browser]( US Edition | 21 November 2021 [The Conversation]( Welcome to Sunday! You’ll find the top five articles on our website this week displayed below. Editor’s pick: This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving. Like many Americans, my family is warily gathering after taking a year off and getting all of our vaccinations in order. I’ll be hosting a multigenerational dinner that involves some tricky accommodations around the food preferences of guests spanning half a dozen decades. As I’m preparing for this great American feast, I enjoyed rereading an article Marie-Anne Suizzo, an educational psychology scholar at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts, wrote for us in 2016. She compares American and French attitudes toward food and pleasure, and discusses how children are taught to think about both. Suizzo spent eight months doing research in Paris and “found that the education of taste begins very early in families and is reinforced in daycare centers, where [even two-year-olds are served formal, yet relaxed, four-course lunches with an appetizer, main course, cheese plate and dessert](.” Emily Costello Managing Editor Employers are having a harder time recruiting new workers. AP Photo/Marta Lavandier [The ‘great resignation’ is a trend that began before the pandemic – and bosses need to get used to it]( Ian O. Williamson, University of California, Irvine A record share of workers quit their jobs in September. A human resources scholar explains how this is a trend that predates the pandemic. At least 13 former Trump administration officials, including Jared Kushner and Kayleigh McEnany, pictured here, violated the Hatch Act, according to a new federal investigation released Nov. 9, 2021. AP Photo/Alex Brandon [The Hatch Act, the law Trump deputies are said to have broken, requires government employees to work for the public interest, not partisan campaigns]( Matthew May, Boise State University More than a dozen Trump administration officials are said to have violated a federal law that bars federal employees from political campaigning. They weren’t the first to have run afoul of the law. - [Cancers are in an evolutionary battle with treatments – evolutionary game theory could tip the advantage to medicine]( Anuraag Bukkuri, University of South Florida Applying the principles of ecology and evolution could help oncologists anticipate cancer drug resistance and optimize their treatment plans for patients. - [Why building more homes won’t solve the affordable housing problem for the millions of people who need it most]( Alex Schwartz, The New School; Kirk McClure, University of Kansas California and other states plan to build more homes in an effort to fix America’s affordable housing problem. But that’s not the main reason housing remains unaffordable for millions of people. - [A lab-stage mRNA vaccine targeting ticks may offer protection against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases]( Andaleeb Sajid, National Institutes of Health The study found that ticks were unable to feed on guinea pigs vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease. [The Conversation]( You’re receiving this newsletter from [The Conversation]( 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451 [Forward to a friend]( • [Unsubscribe](