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How I identified a probable pen name of Louisa May Alcott

  • Written by Max Chapnick, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English, Northeastern University
imageLouisa May Alcott took part in a 19th-century literary culture of anonymity and guessing games.Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Before Louisa May Alcott published the bestselling “Little Women” in two volumes – the first in 1868, the second in 1869 – she wrote melodramatic thrillers, selling these short stories to...

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Disinformation is rampant on social media – a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you

  • Written by H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
imageDisinformation campaigns use emotional and rhetorical tricks to try to get you to share propaganda and falsehoods.hobo_018/E+ via Getty Images

Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not.

Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes....

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What does weight-inclusive health care mean? A dietitian explains what some providers are doing to end weight stigma

  • Written by Lauren Butler, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Texas State University
imagePeople living in larger bodies face constant discrimination and negative messages about their body weight.smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

Weight-inclusive health care means a focus on better health with no weight loss required.

This includes practices such as eating for overall well-being rather than for the number of calories. It...

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When research study materials don't speak their participants' language, data can get lost in translation

  • Written by Sonia Colina, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
imageSome approaches to translation are more true to the aims of the text than others.arthobbit/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Imagine your mother has cancer. You just heard about a promising new experimental treatment and want to enroll her in the study. However, your mother immigrated to the U.S. as an adult and speaks limited English. When you reach...

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Oh, Christmas tree: The economics of the US holiday tree industry

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
imagePeace, joy and profit margins: Retailers sell Christmas trees at a markup of up to 500%.Iuliia Bondar/Getty Images Plus

Christmas today is a big business, and one part of that is the multibillion-dollar business of selling Christmas trees. The U.S. Christmas tree industry is so large, it even has two dueling trade groups: one that supports natural...

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Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along − contrary to theories that these elements came from meteorites

  • Written by Shichun Huang, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
imageScientists still debate the origins of Earth's life-sustaining elements.BlackJack3D/E+ via Getty Images

For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that are crucial ingredients for life, like sulfur and nitrogen, first came to Earth when asteroid-type objects carrying them crashed into our planet’s surface.

But new...

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Don't applaud the climate summit's loss and damage fund deal just yet – it might not warrant that standing ovation

  • Written by Shannon Gibson, Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Shortly after the opening ceremony of the 2023 United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, delegates of nations around the world rose in a standing ovation to celebrate a long-awaited agreement to launch a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries recover from climate-related disasters.

But the applause might not yet be warranted. The...

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Don't applaud the COP28 climate summit's loss and damage fund deal just yet – here's what's missing

  • Written by Shannon Gibson, Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Shortly after the opening ceremony of the 2023 United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, delegates of nations around the world rose in a standing ovation to celebrate a long-awaited agreement to launch a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries recover from climate-related disasters.

But the applause might not yet be warranted. The...

Read more: Don't applaud the COP28 climate summit's loss and damage fund deal just yet – here's what's missing

Kissinger’s obsession with Chile enabled a murderous dictatorship that still haunts the country

  • Written by Jorge Heine, Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
imageChilean dictator Augusto Pinochet greets U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976.Bettmann/Getty Images

Noticing my nonappearance at the start of a black-tie dinner at the Johannesburg home of Harry Oppenheimer, a mining magnate and Africa’s richest man, the host assumed I was boycotting the event on principle. It was a reasonable...

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Your car might be watching you to keep you safe − at the expense of your privacy

  • Written by M. Hadi Amini, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University
imageMany modern cars watch occupants -- a plus for safety but not so much for privacy.Courtesy LG

Depending on which late-model vehicle you own, your car might be watching you – literally and figuratively – as you drive down the road. It’s watching you with cameras that monitor the cabin and track where you’re looking, and with...

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  1. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, is showing up in pregnant women living near farm fields – that raises health concerns
  2. Intellectual humility is a key ingredient for scientific progress
  3. How electroconvulsive therapy heals the brain − new insights into ECT, a stigmatized yet highly effective treatment for depression
  4. Sandra Day O’Connor's experience as a legislator guided her consensus-building work on the Supreme Court
  5. Tuberville ends holdout on most high-ranking military nominations
  6. Book explores how colleges seek to increase racial diversity without relying on race in college admissions
  7. Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here's how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes
  8. Preguntar a las personas con pérdida de memoria sobre las vacaciones pasadas puede ayudarles a recordar momentos felices
  9. 5 lecciones de marketing del romance entre Taylor Swift y Travis Kelce
  10. Hanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically − but the same is true of Christmas
  11. 'Inert' ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought
  12. How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast's Great Marsh ecosystem
  13. Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the most sustainable Christmas tree, no matter what it's made of
  14. Why Franklin, Washington and Lincoln considered American democracy an 'experiment' -- and were unsure if it would survive
  15. Hate crimes are on the rise − but the narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict
  16. How sacred images in many Asian cultures incorporate divine presence and make them come 'alive'
  17. Scientists have been researching superconductors for over a century, but they have yet to find one that works at room temperature − 3 essential reads
  18. Science is a human right − and its future is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  19. Certain states, including Arizona, have begun scrapping court costs and fees for people unable to pay – two experts on legal punishments explain why
  20. Philadelphia reduces school-based arrests by 91% since 2013 – researchers explain the effects of keeping kids out of the legal system
  21. Texas is suing Planned Parenthood for $1.8B over $10M in allegedly fraudulent services it rendered – a health care economist explains what's going on
  22. New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own
  23. Online 'likes' for toxic social media posts prompt more − and more hateful − messages
  24. With the end of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the creator economy is the next frontier for organized labor
  25. Here's what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans
  26. Why isn't there any sound in space? An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream
  27. COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world
  28. Santos, now booted from the House, got elected as a master of duplicity -- here's how it worked
  29. A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy
  30. Native American mothers whose children have been separated from them experience a raw and ongoing grief that has no end
  31. 'Wonka' movie holds remnants of novel's racist past
  32. Bringing classical physics into the modern world with Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
  33. Why all civilian lives matter equally, according to a military ethicist
  34. How the keffiyeh – a practical garment used for protection against the desert sun – became a symbol of Palestinian identity
  35. Colonized countries rarely ask for redress over past wrongs − the reasons can be complex
  36. Who is still getting HIV in America? Medication is only half the fight – homing in on disparities can help get care to those who need it most
  37. These programs make college possible for students with developmental disabilities
  38. Edward Blum's crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists
  39. Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
  40. Russian attempt to control narrative in Ukraine employs age-old tactic of 'othering' the enemy
  41. OpenAI is a nonprofit-corporate hybrid: A management expert explains how this model works − and how it fueled the tumult around CEO Sam Altman's short-lived ouster
  42. As plastic production grows, treaty negotiations to reduce plastic waste are stuck in low gear
  43. Israel's mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding the country
  44. 'Baldur's Gate 3' became the surprise hit of 2023 by upending conventional wisdom about what gives video games broad appeal
  45. COP28 begins: 4 issues that will determine if the UN climate summit is a success, from methane to money
  46. Israel-Gaza: what the term genocide means under international law – podcast
  47. Henry Kissinger's bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge
  48. The path to net-zero emissions runs through industry
  49. ChatGPT turns 1: AI chatbot's success says as much about humans as technology
  50. Why the Fed should treat climate change's $150B economic toll like other national crises it's helped fight