A metrobus driver performs squats at Rio de los Remedios metrobus station in Mexico. To combat growing obesity, lawmakers have introduced a new campaign encouraging physical activity. Edgard Garrido/ReutersThere is a longstanding debate in the research community about the importance of fitnessversus fatness in health. Are exercise and improving...
Getting out the message: environmental activists seized on the Keystone XL pipeline as a symbol. Light Brigading/flickr, CC BY-NCContrary to predictions from energy industry insiders, President Obama has rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the United States-Canada border.
The president downplayed the...
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Obama announcing that he has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline – what message does it send on infrastructure? Jonathan Ernst/ReutersPresident Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline was virtually a foregone conclusion well before he announced it.
Just as the prolonged debate about the pipeline was far more a matter of...
Read more: The Keystone XL pipeline debate is over, but our infrastructure needs are not
The headquarters of The Boston Globe. Brian Snyder/ReutersNote: this article may contain spoilers for those unfamiliar with the story.
In the new movie Spotlight, there’s a wonderful scene where a reporter is seeking documents in a courthouse. The building is a dreary linoleum monument to The Way Things Are. In the scene, a recalcitrant clerk...
There's nothing a couple beers can't fix. ReutersToday’s strong employment report is a cause for celebration, at least for now.
The economy reversed the trend of the past three months by creating 271,000 new jobs. The overall unemployment rate is now at 5%, a seven-year low. Growth was especially strong in the service sector, with...
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Millions March TexasElizabeth Brossa/flickr, CC BY-NC-SAComparing the 1960s and 1970s Black Panther Party and today’s Black Lives Matter movement reveals parallels and progress.
Stanley Nelson’s recently released film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution juxtaposes the party’s justice movement against the Black Lives...
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UAW workers are fighting back.ReutersWhen members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) approved a new contract with Fiat Chrysler on October 22, they ended a contentious round of negotiations that exposed rank-and-file discontent over a two-tier wage system that one worker described as “at odds with union principles.”
In a rare move just a...
You might not know the extent to which news sites are exposing your information to third-party servers.'News' via www.shutterstock.comYou may already know that every time you go online, your browsing history could be exposed to numerous advertisers and data brokers who then send you “targeted” advertisements.
But what about visiting the...
Unmanned rocket explodes moments after launch.NASA/Joel Kowsky, CC BY-NC-NDHuman beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean?
What happens when vast numbers of us can leave our tiny blue dot behind?N...
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The warming global climate is causing fundamental changes to the carbon cycle in northern parts of the world. peupleloup/flickr, CC BY-SAStudies show that the warming of the climate system is altering the movement and storage of carbon in the far north of the Earth. And these changes carry global implications. Among the many questions that...
Read more: Will the Arctic shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source?