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Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween'

  • Written by Mathew Sandoval, Associate Teaching Professor in Culture & Performance, Arizona State University
imageChildren trick or treat and wear Halloween costumes for a full week during Day of the Dead season in Mexico.FG Trade Latin/Collection E+ via Getty Images

Many Latinos regularly declare: “Día de los Muertos is not Mexican Halloween.” The declaration is increasingly repeated by non-Latinos too.

Drawing a clear line between the two...

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In the Israel-Hamas war, children are the ultimate pawns – and ultimate victims

  • Written by Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University
imageBoth Palestinian children in Gaza, as shown on left, and Israeli children, as seen on the right, have been hurt, killed and kidnapped in the Israel-Hamas war.Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

In 1903, a local mob killed 49 Jews, including several children, and raped and wounded 600 others, in the city of Kishinev, then part...

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This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings

  • Written by Rob Wells, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
imageMore than 5,000 Black people have been lynched in the US.Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Lynching and the Press

What prompted the idea for the course?

One of my students was reviewing a spreadsheet that...

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Violent and disturbing war images from the Mideast can stir deep emotions − a PTSD expert explains how to protect yourself and your kids from overexposure

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
imageImages of devastation, like the one shown here following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, can take a heavy mental toll. AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman

The past few years have been filled with a seemingly endless stream of painful stories and images coming from across the globe, including the loss of more than 3 million people to the COVID-...

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Louisiana's 'In God We Trust' law tests limits of religion in public schools

  • Written by Frank S. Ravitch, Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University

When Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college – the author of the bill claimed to be following a long-held tradition of displaying the national motto, most notably on U.S. currency.

But even under recent Supreme Court...

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White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments

  • Written by Trevor Thompson, Associate Professor of Clinical Research, University of Greenwich
imageDoctors have struggled to find the balance between effective pain management and the very real addiction risks that come with prescription pain medication.BackyardProduction/iStock via Getty Images Plus

White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as...

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How to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts

  • Written by Paul Morrow, Human Rights Fellow, University of Dayton
imageSocial media is often used during times of conflict to spread fake news.Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images

In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false.

For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, screen...

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Asteroids in the solar system could contain undiscovered, superheavy elements

  • Written by Johann Rafelski, Professor of Physics, University of Arizona
imageAn illustration of an asteroid orbiting through space. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

For centuries, the quest for new elements was a driving force in many scientific disciplines. Understanding an atom’s structure and the development of nuclear science allowed scientists to accomplish the old goal of alchemists – tur...

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Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most 'authentic' social media platform

  • Written by Michael Serazio, Associate Professor of Communication, Boston College
imageX CEO Elon Musk has argued that his social media platform allows users to 'be their true selves.'Nathan Howard/Getty Images

With X, formerly known as Twitter, hitting the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s US$44 billion takeover of the social media platform, it can feel disorienting to try to make sense of all that’s gone down.

Blue...

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  2. AIs could soon run businesses – it’s an opportunity to ensure these 'artificial persons' follow the law
  3. 'I see no happy ending' − a former national security leader on the Gaza hostage situation
  4. Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school standards was not led by white conservatives but by Black and Latino parents
  5. UN warns that Gaza desperately needs more aid − an emergency relief expert explains why it is especially tough working in Gaza
  6. I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors
  7. To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
  8. Public schools and faith-based chaplains: Texas’ new combination is testing the First Amendment
  9. Turkey faces competing pressures from Russia and the West to end its 'middleman strategy' and pick a side on the war in Ukraine
  10. FDA advisory panel's conclusion that oral phenylephrine is ineffective means consumers need to think twice when buying cold and flu meds
  11. How often do you lie? Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth
  12. New House Speaker Mike Johnson leads a GOP majority weakened by decades of declining party authority
  13. When communities face drinking-water crises, bottled water is a 'temporary' solution that often lasts years − and worsens inequality
  14. Polls have value, even when they are wrong
  15. Antisemitism has moved from the right to the left in the US − and falls back on long-standing stereotypes
  16. What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
  17. Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
  18. From morgue to medical school: Cadavers of the poor, Black and vulnerable can be dissected without consent
  19. Israeli invasion of Gaza likely to resemble past difficult battles in Iraq and Syria
  20. TCUS senior editor Kalpana Jain explores Indigenous communities in Indonesia − and learns about their struggles to reclaim land
  21. Are ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence
  22. Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of legitimacy
  23. The Rio Grande isn't just a border – it's a river in crisis
  24. Backlash to the oil CEO leading the UN climate summit overlooks his ambitious agenda for COP28 – and concerns of the Global South
  25. Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren't the most expensive materials used in science
  26. How 'La Catrina' became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead
  27. Hot-button topics may get public attention at the Vatican synod, but a more fundamental issue for the Catholic Church is at the heart of debate
  28. GOP's House paralysis is a crisis in a time of crises
  29. The Israel-Hamas war deepens the struggle between US and Iran for influence in the Middle East
  30. Biological sex is far from binary − this college course examines the science of sex diversity in people, fungi and across the animal kingdom
  31. A layered lake is a little like Earth’s early oceans − and lets researchers explore how oxygen built up in our atmosphere billions of years ago
  32. Key Trump co-defendants accept plea deals – a legal expert explains what that means
  33. For the Osage Nation, the betrayal of the murders depicted in 'Killers of the Flower Moon' still lingers
  34. How much time do kids spend on devices – playing games, watching videos, texting and using the phone?
  35. Hezbollah alone will decide whether Lebanon − already on the brink of collapse − gets dragged into Israel-Hamas war
  36. Delivering aid during war is tricky − here’s what to know about what Gaza relief operations may face
  37. New research helps explain why Indian girls appear to be less engaged in politics than Indian boys
  38. A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims − testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women's fight to remake labor laws
  39. Quantum dots − a new Nobel laureate describes the development of these nanoparticles from basic research to industry application
  40. Does chicken soup really help when you're sick? A nutrition specialist explains what's behind the beloved comfort food
  41. New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce single-use plastic waste
  42. Health care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike
  43. House speaker paralysis is confusing – a political scientist explains what's happening
  44. COVID-19 vaccine mandates have come and mostly gone in the US – an ethicist explains why their messy rollout matters for trust in public health
  45. Hamas was unpopular in Gaza before it attacked Israel – surveys showed Gazans cared more about fighting poverty than armed resistance
  46. What do a Black scientist, nonprofit executive and filmmaker have in common? They all face racism in the ‘gray areas’ of workplace culture
  47. Nonprofits can become more resilient by spending more on fundraising and admin − new research
  48. Biden’s Middle East trip has messages for both global and domestic audiences
  49. New technique uses near-miss particle physics to peer into quantum world − two physicists explain how they are measuring wobbling tau particles
  50. Babe Ruth, patron saint of the home run, turned the ball field into a church – and lived his own Catholic faith in the spotlight