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Interruptions at Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been rising since the 1980s

  • Written by Paul M. Collins, Jr., Professor and Director of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27.Saul Loeb/Pool Image via AP

Depending on who you ask, the American people saw very different things in the riveting testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

To some, Kavanaugh’s behavior was the self-indulgent...

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New materials are powering the battery revolution

  • Written by Veronica Augustyn, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
Research is finding better ways to make batteries both big and small.Romaset/Shutterstock.com

There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people. Nearly all of them are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are the single most important component enabling the portable electronics revolution of the past few decades. None...

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Sexism, racism drive black women to run for office in both Brazil and US

  • Written by Kia Lilly Caldwell, Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Black women in Brazil protest presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, who is known for his disparaging remarks about women, on Sept. 29, 2018.AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

Motivated in part by President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about women and the numerous claims that he committed sexual assault, American women are running for state...

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Sexism, racism drive more black women to run for office in both Brazil and US

  • Written by Kia Lilly Caldwell, Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Black women in Brazil protest presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, who is known for his disparaging remarks about women, on Sept. 29, 2018.AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

Motivated in part by President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about women and the numerous claims that he committed sexual assault, American women are running for state...

Read more: Sexism, racism drive more black women to run for office in both Brazil and US

Después de un desastre: enviar ayuda a donde más se necesita

  • Written by Johanna Amaya Leal, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University
La escena en Indonesia después del terremoto del 1 de octubre.AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Después de costosos y mortíferos desastres como el terremoto y tsunami que cobraron la vida de más de 1.400 personas en Indonesia el 28 de septiembre, llegan grandes cantidades de suministros como ropa o comida – ya sean estos...

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Fishing forecasts can predict marine creature movements

  • Written by Heather Welch, Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Swordfish only -- no bycatch, please.Joe Fish Flynn/shutterstock

Do you check the weather forecast before getting dressed in the morning?

If you do, then you’re making a decision in real time, based on dynamic processes that can vary greatly over space and time. Marine animals can be similarly dynamic. They might move in response to...

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50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future

  • Written by Daniel N. Rockmore, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Computational Science, and Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Even 17 years beyond 2001, spacesuits are bulkier than this.Matthew J. Cotter/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Watching a 50th anniversary screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” I found myself, a mathematician and computer scientist whose research includes work related to artificial intelligence, comparing the story’s vision of the future with the...

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4 things journalists can do to rebuild trust with the public

  • Written by Lisa Heyamoto, Senior Instructor of Journalism, University of Oregon
A traveler reads a newspaper.AP Photo/Julio Cortez

In August, nearly 400 news outlets made the case for the importance of journalism in response to President Donald Trump’s repeated claim that the media is “the enemy of the people.”

In #FreePress editorials published in newspapers across the country, writers stressed...

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Ted Turner has Lewy body dementia, but what is that?

  • Written by Melissa J. Armstrong, Assistant Professor, Neurology, University of Florida
Ted Turner and former wife Jane Fonda, picture in 1991, when the high-profile couple were dating. John Barrett/PHOTOlink/ MediaPunch /IPX/AP

Ted Turner recently announced that he has Lewy body dementia, a diagnosis that the late comic and actor Robin Williams was given after his death.

The disease is frequently unrecognized even by doctors, despite...

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How should we judge people for their past moral failings?

  • Written by Andrew Khoury, Instructor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
The #MeToo movement and more recent allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have posed questions about past conduct.AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File

The recent allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have further divided the nation. Among the questions the case raises are some important ethical ones.

Not least among...

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