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Trump encuentra oportunidad electoral en la crisis humanitaria venezolana

  • Written by Marco Aponte-Moreno, Assistant Professor of Global Business, St Mary's College of California
Diariamente unos 5.000 venezolanos huyen de la violencia, la tiranía y el hambre, provocando una crisis migratoria de proporciones similares a la de Siria.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

El presidente Donald Trump ha hablado contundentemente sobre la crisis humanitaria de Venezuela. En la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas de septiembre la...

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Why washing your hands well is so important to protect your family from the flu

  • Written by Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, Doctoral candidate, microbiology, University of Oregon
One-year-old Kilian Doherty being prepared for a chest X-ray Feb. 9, 2018 to determine if he had flu.David Goldman/AP Photo

During my second year of graduate school, I moved in with my sister’s family to save money. “You must get the flu shot if you are going to live here,” my sister declared. Both of my nieces were under the age...

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E-cigarettes and a new threat: How to dispose of them

  • Written by Yogi H. Hendlin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco
A discarded Juul on the floor of a San Francisco streetcar March 20, 2018.Julia McQuoid, CC BY-SA

The two largest global brands of capsule coffee, Nespresso and Keurig, are regarded by many as environmental nightmares. Billions of the throwaway nonrecyclable plastic products currently clutter waste dumps, waterways and city streets. Both inventor...

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Transgender and non-binary people face health care discrimination every day in the US

  • Written by Shanna K. Kattari, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
A significant number of transgender and non-binary people report discrimination when seeking medical and social services.Elvira Koneva/shutterstock.com

Many people may experience anxiety when seeking medical treatment. They might worry about wait times, insurance coverage or how far they must travel to access care.

Transgender and non-binary...

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Georgia's gubernatorial race could be a bellwether for Democrats nationally

  • Written by Jeffrey Lazarus, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Georgia gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams, left, and Brian Kemp.AP Photos/John Amis, File

Democrats haven’t won a major statewide office in Georgia since 2000, but this year’s gubernatorial race in the state is a tossup.

As a political scientist who studies elections and lives in Georgia, I’ve been watching this race closely.

P...

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These kids and young adults want their day in court on climate change

  • Written by Mary Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon
Young people will spend more years living with the consequences of climate policies than their elders.Robin Loznak, courtesy of Our Children's Trust, CC BY-NC-SA

Humanity must rapidly decrease greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, climate scientists have warned for decades. But America’s president has both...

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Artificial intelligence will make you smarter

  • Written by Terrence Sejnowski, Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego
People plus machines will surpass the capabilities of either element alone.metamorworks/Shutterstock.com

The future won’t be made by either humans or machines alone – but by both, working together. Technologies modeled on how human brains work are already augmenting people’s abilities, and will only get more influential as society...

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The Village Voice's photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City's streets

  • Written by Tamar Carroll, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
When The Village Voice shut down in August, the city's protest movements lost one of their biggest champions.Nick Lehr/The Conversation

When The Village Voice, the nation’s first alternative weekly, closed in late August, social justice movements lost one of their biggest cheerleaders.

Founded in 1955, the Voice aggressively covered civil...

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Why the Christian idea of hell no longer persuades people to care for the poor

  • Written by Meghan Henning, Assistant Professor of Christian Origins, University of Dayton
What was behind early depictions of hell?Erica Zabowski/Flickr.com, CC BY-ND

It’s that time of the year when hell is used as a common theme for entertainment and hell-themed haunted houses and horror moviespop up all over the country.

Although many of us now associate hell with Christianity, the idea of an afterlife existed much earlier....

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Why did the flu kill 80,000 Americans last year?

  • Written by Patricia L. Foster, Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
An Atlanta hospital set up a mobile ER to deal with the large number of flu cases.AP Photo/David Goldman

The 2017-2018 flu season was historically severe. Public health officials estimate that 900,000 Americans were hospitalized and 80,000 died from the flu and its complications. For comparison, the previous worst season from the past decade,...

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