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Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always

  • Written by Theodore J. Kury, Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
imageOutages left downtown New Orleans in the dark after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Aug. 29, 2021. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The good news when Hurricane Ida churned into Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021 was that levees held up – especially those that were strengthened after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in...

Read more: Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always

At the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ancient Greece and Rome can tell us a lot about the links between collective trauma and going to war

  • Written by Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
imageAmerica's political leaders rushed the nation into war just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, just like ancient Greeks and Romans did in response to similar traumatic events.David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images

On the outskirts of Grapevine, Texas, a town about 5 miles northwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, there’s a memorial...

Read more: At the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, ancient Greece and Rome can tell us a lot about the...

How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11

  • Written by Susan H. Kamei, Lecturer in History; Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageOn Sept. 17, 2001, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, left, met with President George W. Bush and others.Greg Mathieson/Mai/Getty Images

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started...

Read more: How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11

Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism

  • Written by Allison Hawn, Instructional Faculty, Arizona State University
imageThe Picts, the indigenous people of what is today northern Scotland, were documented by Roman historians as having complex tattoos.Theodor de Bry, via Wikimedia Commons

While most of us would likely care to forget the pandemic as soon as is possible, a few have opted for a permanent reminder of the health crisis – in the shape of a tattoo....

Read more: Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism

Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion – empowering workers today would be a form of reparations

  • Written by Joerg Rieger, Professor of Theology, Vanderbilt Divinity School
imageLabor violations disproportionately affect Black Americans.Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The conversation about reparations for slavery entered a new stage earlier in 2021, with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voting for the creation of a commission to address the matter.

The bill, H.R. 40, has been introduced every Congress...

Read more: Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion – empowering workers today would be a form of reparations

Al-Qaida, Islamic State group struggle for recruits

  • Written by Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageIn 2014, the Islamic State group could draw crowds of supporters, like these in Mosul, Iraq. But actual fighting recruits have been harder to come by.AP Photo

Al-Qaida was planning two sets of terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. On Sept. 11, 2021, as Americans commemorate and mourn the lives lost that Tuesday morning 20 years ago, it is...

Read more: Al-Qaida, Islamic State group struggle for recruits

Will having so many disasters happening at the same time affect donations? We asked an expert

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Glenn Family Chair of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, IUPUI
imagePeople evacuated from Afghanistan arriving in the U.S. flew to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe

The scramble to assist the thousands of refugees who fled Afghanistan is on as the humanitarian crisis in that country grows more dire. Haiti’s recovery from an earthquake on Aug. 14, 2021, is off to a r...

Read more: Will having so many disasters happening at the same time affect donations? We asked an expert

5 reasons video games should be more widely used in school

  • Written by Andre Thomas, Director - LIVE lab and Associate Professor of the Practice, Texas A&M University
imageStudies show video games help students learn math and science. Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holidays.

The new rule took...

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Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper psychological wounds

  • Written by Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Fellow, Wayne State University
imageDance and movement therapy not only holds promise for treatment of trauma, anxiety and depression but can also contribute lifelong coping skills.kate_sept2004/E+ via Getty Images

A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled as refugees from the Middle East and Africa leapt and twirled around, waving...

Read more: Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper...

A subway flood expert explains what needs to be done to stop underground station deluges

  • Written by Klaus Hans Jacob, Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University
imageUnderground and underwater.David Dee Delgado/Getty Images via Getty Images

Subway stations in New York were inundated with water following heavy rain on Sept. 1, 2021. But the Big Apple isn’t alone – over the last year we have seen similar images in other major cities, including London and Zhengzhou in China.

We spoke with Klaus Hans...

Read more: A subway flood expert explains what needs to be done to stop underground station deluges

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  1. Hurricane Ida: 2 reasons for its record-shattering rainfall in NYC and the Northeast long after the winds weakened
  2. 'Get out now' – inside the White House on 9/11, according to the staffers who were there
  3. How Arctic warming can trigger extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze – a new study makes the connection
  4. Bitcoin will soon be 'legal tender' in El Salvador – here's what that means
  5. Bitcoin is now 'legal tender' in El Salvador – here's what that means
  6. Researchers trained mice to control seemingly random bursts of dopamine in their brains, challenging theories of reward and learning
  7. 'Work with hope' – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad news
  8. An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be
  9. As Texas ban on abortion goes into effect, a religion scholar explains that pre-modern Christian attitudes on marriage and reproductive rights were quite different
  10. Education debates are rife with references to war – but have they gone too far?
  11. At my hospital, over 95% of COVID-19 patients share one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated
  12. When human life begins is a question of politics – not biology
  13. How the Purdue opioid settlement could help the public understand the roots of the drug crisis
  14. 20 years of 'forever' wars have left a toll on US veterans returning to the question: 'Did you kill?'
  15. Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls for a moratorium
  16. Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin
  17. What's on the agenda when Ukraine president meets Biden?
  18. What are the Jewish High Holy Days? A look at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and a month of celebrating renewal and moral responsibility
  19. State efforts to ban mask mandates in schools mirror resistance to integration
  20. Calculating the costs of the Afghanistan War in lives, dollars and years
  21. Hurricane Ida turned into a monster thanks to a giant warm patch in the Gulf of Mexico – here’s what happened
  22. Even with the eviction moratorium, landlords continued to find ways to kick renters out
  23. Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth but faces steep challenges to tap it
  24. Microeconomics explains why people can never have enough of what they want and how that influences policies
  25. Refugees after the American Revolution needed money, homes and acceptance
  26. Do US teens have the right to be vaccinated against their parents' will? It depends on where they live
  27. Bilingual people with language loss due to stroke can pose a treatment challenge – computational modeling may help clinicians treat them
  28. Lessons about 9/11 often provoke harassment of Muslim students
  29. New gene therapies may soon treat dozens of rare diseases, but million-dollar price tags will put them out of reach for many
  30. Autonomous drones could speed up search and rescue after flash floods, hurricanes and other disasters
  31. What do Muslims believe and do? Understanding the 5 pillars of Islam
  32. Understanding Islam - a brief introduction to its past and present in the United States
  33. Why some Muslim women feel empowered wearing hijab, a headscarf
  34. Islam's deep traditions of art and science have had a global influence
  35. America's Muslims come from many traditions and cultures
  36. How much do you know about Islam?
  37. What is Sharia? Islamic law shows Muslims how to live, and can be a force for progress as well as tool of fundamentalists
  38. What happens when the COVID-19 vaccines enter the body – a road map for kids and grown-ups
  39. Breathing wildfire smoke can affect the brain and sperm, as well as the lungs
  40. Drink less, exercise more and take in the air – sage advice on pandemic living from a long-forgotten, and very long, 18th-century poem
  41. What is Wicca? An expert on modern witchcraft explains.
  42. Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite
  43. Is it a crime to forge a vaccine card? And what’s the penalty for using a fake?
  44. Why is it so difficult to fight domestic terrorism? 6 experts share their thoughts
  45. Hurricane Ida: 4 essential reads about New Orleans' high hurricane risk and what climate change has to do with the storms
  46. The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy
  47. CDC eviction ban ended by Supreme Court: 4 questions about its impact answered by a housing law expert
  48. Poison ivy can work itchy evil on your skin – here's how
  49. TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents
  50. How public health partnerships are encouraging COVID-19 vaccination in Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina