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Vital Hasson, the Jew who worked for the Nazis, hunted down refugees and tore apart families in WWII Greece

  • Written by Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
Jewish youth on a sailboat in Salonika harbor, 1929,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher

I learned a lesson when conducting research for my recently published book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten to history...

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There's more than one good way to teach kids how to read

  • Written by Kindel Turner Nash, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Phonics emphasizes the sounds letters and groups of letters make.Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read.

As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas. But recently we have become concerned by the direction that...

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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading

  • Written by Joe Roman, Research Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont
Whale watching (here, off Húsavík, Iceland) may be better for the local economy than whale hunting. Davide Cantelli/Wikimedia , CC BY

One of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn’t happen. For the first time since 2002, Iceland – one of just three countries that still allow...

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Veterans, refugees and victims of war crimes are all vulnerable to PTSD

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), with Rep. Marc Pocan (D.-Wis.) behind her, speaks Jan. 8, 2020 at the Capitol.Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo

Mental health is often used in political discourse and arguments. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the subject Jan. 8, when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.), herself a Somalian refugee who had spent years in a refugee camp...

Read more: Veterans, refugees and victims of war crimes are all vulnerable to PTSD

Even planets have their (size) limits

  • Written by Natalie Hinkel, Planetary Astrophysicist, Senior Research Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and Co-Investigator for the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), Arizona State University
A planet-forming disk made from rock and gas surrounds a young star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran

Scientists have discovered over 4,000 exoplanets outside of our Solar System, according to NASA’s Exoplanet Archive.

Some of these planets orbit multiple stars at the same time. Certain planets are so close...

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What to think when you're thinking about impeachment: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Naomi Schalit, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation US
Where the action is: The capitol building in Washington, D.C. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images

If you have a big appetite for politics news, you’re not going to go hungry this week.

The substantive part of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump now begins, after Democrats from the House of Representatives delivered the...

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Native people did not use fire to shape New England's landscape

  • Written by Wyatt Oswald, Professor of Environmental Science, Emerson College
Old-growth forests prevailed in New England for thousands of years.David Foster, CC BY-ND

An interpretive sign stands at the edge of the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, a 1,500-acre state conservation property in central Massachusetts. It explains the site’s open land vegetation has been shaped by “millennia of fire”...

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Impeachment trial senators swear an oath aimed at guarding 'against malice, falsehood, and evasion'

  • Written by Susan P. Fino, Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., signs the oath book after being sworn in for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Senate Television via AP

The 100 United States senators who are jurors in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump have taken a special oath in order to take part in that proceeding. As they enter...

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Bill de Blasio's bagel gaffe and the fraught politics of food

  • Written by Stacy A. Cordery, Professor of History, Iowa State University
Oh no he didn't.secret agent mike/Getty Images

If New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hadn’t already dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, #bagelgate might have been the nail in the coffin.

His Jan. 15 tweet praising a toasted bagel on National Bagel Day instantly set off hardline bagel devotees-cum-voters. De Blasio quickly amended his...

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'Lennon Walls' herald a sticky-note revolution in Hong Kong

  • Written by Jeff Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
Hong Kong's first Lennon Wall appeared in 2014.Wpcpey/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong have physically reshaped the city. As a scholar of urban landscapes, I have been interested in how the citizens and activists made use of the urban environment during the movement, including walls of Post-it sticky notes...

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