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The Pandora Papers: why does South Dakota feature so heavily?

  • Written by Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
imageWhy the super-rich are targeting the Mount Rushmore state.Dean Alberga/Handout/World Archery Federation via Getty Images

A trove of confidential documents outlining how global elites squirrel away their wealth to avoid tax has been laid bare in the “Pandora Papers.”

Consisting of around 12 million documents, the data was obtained by the I...

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Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world

  • Written by Rich Pellegrin, Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, University of Florida
imageRobotic orchestra conductor 'Yumi' performs on stage with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Lucca in Italy in 2017.Laura Lezza/Getty Images

In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical musicians were like robots.

He spoke from experience – he’d studied classical music at Juilliard and recorded with classical musicians even...

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How Theranos' faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
imageTheranos promised that a drop of blood could yield many health secrets. RapidEye/E+ via Getty Images

One of the most high-profile trials of the year is underway to decide whether Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes defrauded patients and investors.

Her blood testing startup, once valued at almost US$10 billion, was based on a seemingly revolutionary...

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Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of Americans

  • Written by Eric Bellone, Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, Suffolk University
imageIn Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, the flags of the U.S. and its territory fly side by side.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The 4 million inhabitants of five U.S. territories – Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Northern Marianas Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands – do not have the full protection of the Constitution, because of a series of...

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California's latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil production statewide

  • Written by Charles Lester, Director, Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
imageOiled sand in Huntington Beach, Calif., after a 126,000-gallon spill from an offshore oil pipeline.Nick Ut/Getty Images

An oil spill first reported on Oct. 2, 2021, has released thousands of gallons of crude oil into southern California coastal waters. The source is believed to be a leak in an underwater pipeline connected to an oil drilling...

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Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics

  • Written by Moshen Naghavi, Professor of Health Metric Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
imageThe names of the dead.Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

The number of people killed by police officers in the U.S. has been massively underreported in official statistics over the past four decades, with an additional 17,000 deaths over that period,...

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The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history

  • Written by Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History, University of Alabama
imageA trade card with printed black type for the domestic slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp.Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

For my recently published book, “The Ledger and the Chain,” I visited more than 30 archives in over a dozen states, from Louisiana to Connecticut. Along the way,...

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Why prescription drugs can work differently for different people

  • Written by C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
imageGenetic differences, drug interactions and inflammation can affect how well drugs work in the body.ronstick/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Different people taking the same drug can have markedly different responses to the same dose. While many people will get the intended effects, some may get little to no benefit, and others may get unwanted side...

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Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk

  • Written by Cascade Tuholske, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
imageRising global temperatures are increasing heat risks for outdoor workers and the urban poor.Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the global population, live in...

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In cities, dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk

  • Written by Cascade Tuholske, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
imageRising global temperatures are increasing heat risks for outdoor workers and the urban poor.Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the global population, live in...

Read more: In cities, dangerous heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk

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  2. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context isn't a practice confined to those opposed to vaccines – it has been done for centuries
  3. How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education?
  4. How education reforms can support teachers around the world instead of undermining them
  5. Five years after largest marine heatwave on record hit northern California coast, many warm–water species have stuck around
  6. Why some college sports are often out of reach for students from low-income families
  7. Tylenol could be risky for pregnant women – a new review of 25 years of research finds acetaminophen may contribute to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
  8. Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women
  9. David Chase might hate that 'The Many Saints of Newark' is premiering on HBO Max – but it's the wave of the future
  10. Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic
  11. To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time
  12. Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
  13. A major new workplace safety initiative targets dangerous heat on the job, but what about chronic heat exposure?
  14. A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last
  15. Britney Spears gets free of father's conservatorship – but many others remain shackled by the easily abused legal arrangement
  16. US Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion
  17. Havana syndrome fits the pattern of psychosomatic illness – but that doesn't mean the symptoms aren't real
  18. As heat waves intensify, tens of thousands of US classrooms will be too hot for students to learn in
  19. 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company
  20. Why charter schools are not as 'public' as they claim to be
  21. Who pays and who benefits from a massive expansion of solar power?
  22. What happened during the last government shutdown: 4 essential reads
  23. SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a long-overdue 'Thrifty Food Plan' update
  24. The music of proteins is made audible through a computer program that learns from Chopin
  25. Combining an HIV vaccine with immunotherapy may reduce the need for daily medication
  26. Facebook sabe que Instagram está dañando la mente de los adolescentes... y decide callar
  27. Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
  28. Avoiding water bankruptcy in the drought-troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other
  29. An autonomous robot may have already killed people – here's how the weapons could be more destabilizing than nukes
  30. New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men
  31. Francis Scott Key: One of the anti-slavery movement's great villains
  32. Walt Disney's radical vision for a new kind of city
  33. Why Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg may be in hot water with the SEC
  34. The Supreme Court's immense power may pose a danger to its legitimacy
  35. R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common in workplace abuse – that enabled crimes to go on for decades
  36. Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud
  37. Social media gives support to LGBTQ youth when in-person communities are lacking
  38. Could Apple's child safety feature backfire? New research shows warnings can increase risky sharing
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  42. How better funding can increase the number and diversity of doctoral students
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  44. How Sen. Joe Manchin's support for natural gas could derail Biden's US climate plan
  45. What Ötzi the prehistoric iceman can teach us about the use of tattoos in ceremonial healing or religious rites
  46. Should teens taking ADHD, anxiety and depression drugs consume energy drinks and coffee?
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  49. How civil rights activist Howard Fuller became a devout champion of school choice
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