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What does Springfield, Illinois, in 1908 tell us about Springfield, Ohio, in 2024?

  • Written by Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
imageSupporters gather at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Lying about Black people is nothing new in political campaigning.

Despite the thorough debunking of false rumors that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies...

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From Swift to Springsteen to Al Jolson, candidates keep trying to use celebrities to change voters’ songs

  • Written by Matt Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science, Park University

It’s 2016 all over again. And 2020, for that matter. Democrats are staring at what looks to be another coin flip election between their party’s nominee and Donald Trump.

In an election that could come down to a few hundred thousand votes in a handful of states, every voter matters – no matter how you reach them. With that in...

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Trump’s musical interlude is a twist on the long tradition of candidates enlisting musicians’ support, from Al Jolson to Springsteen to Swift

  • Written by Matt Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science, Park University
imageDonald Trump dances to the song "Y.M.C.A." with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, during a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Oct. 14, 2024. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Donald Trump made liberal use of music in what’s being called a “surreal” or “bizarre” town hall meeting on Oct. 14, 2024, in...

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As OpenAI attracts billions in new investment, its goal of balancing profit with purpose is getting more challenging to pull off

  • Written by Alnoor Ebrahim, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, Tufts University
imageWhat's in store for OpenAI is the subject of many anonymously sourced reports.AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding from investors and that...

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Scientists around the world report millions of new discoveries every year − but this explosive research growth wasn’t what experts predicted

  • Written by David P. Baker, Professor of Sociology, Education and Demography, Penn State
imageThe number of research studies published globally has risen exponentially in the past decades. AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the profound.

Since 1900, the numbe...

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Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

  • Written by Zhe Li, Postdoctoral Researcher in Earth System Science, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
imageAtmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image.Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher...

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects

  • Written by James Wray, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageView of the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet on Sept. 30, 2024, from Monfrague National Park in Spain.Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space.

The spherical shell known as the Oort...

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Vatican synod is opening the door a bit wider for Catholic women − but they’ve been knocking for more than 100 years

  • Written by Carol E. Harrison, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
imageSister Nathalie Becquart, the first female undersecretary at the Vatican's Synod of Bishops, walks to the Vatican on May 29, 2023. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino

In 2021, Sister Nathalie Becquart became the first woman to vote at any Vatican meeting when Pope Francis appointed her undersecretary to the synod, a gathering of bishops whose second...

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Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle

  • Written by John Sommers-Flanagan, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Counseling, University of Montana
imageThis course is more than just suggesting that you 'cheer up' and 'look on the bright side.'akinbostanci/E+ via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of Course

Evidence-Based Happiness for Teachers

What prompted the idea for the course?

I was...

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Swing-state GOP leaders amplified election denial in 2020 − and may do so again

  • Written by Sadie Dempsey, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageWill local Republican Parties again serve as megaphones for election disinformation, as they did in 2020?AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File

With the 2024 election just weeks away, former President Donald Trump continues to spread false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He also insists without evidence that the same may happen this year.

In a Sept. 7,...

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