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Fourteen years after 9/11, Obama still struggles to close Guantanamo Bay

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imageThe Northeast gate out of Gitmo and into Cuba, 2013. Bob Strong/REUTERS

Even prior to his inauguration, Barack Obama said that during his first week in office as president of the United States, he would issue an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. However, he cautiously hedged by adding the...

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Inside academia: black professors are expected to 'entertain' while presenting

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imageEntertainers or performers?Shawn, CC BY-NC

Imagine this scenario: after going through the frustrations of being a high school mathematics teacher, you went back to school for a PhD and landed your dream job.

Today, you are an assistant professor at one of the top education departments within a university system that is...

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Why aren't under-65s diagnosed with cancer until the disease is advanced?

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With cancer, the earlier you are diagnosed, the great your chances for survival. It is easier, and more effective, to treat a cancer that is in its early stages and hasn’t spread to other parts of the body. And that’s why health care providers...

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In today's NFL, forget Super Bowl dreams – it's all about fantasy

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imageMinnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is the top-rated fantasy player on Yahoo's preseason rankings. USA Today Sports/Reuters

As the NFL’s regular season kicks off with a full slate of games this weekend, I did something that reflects the state of American sports fandom.

I picked a daily fantasy football team.

A...

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El Niño – what it will bring this year and how it could change with global warming

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As the summer ends, heat is dominating the meteorological landscape, with the warmest month ever recorded and the drought continuing unabated in California. At the same time, it is clear that an El Niño is building that is expected to culminate in the fall and...

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Real crisis in psychology isn't that studies don't replicate, but that we usually don't even try

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imageRun a study again and again – should the results hit the same bull's-eye every time?Richard Matthews, CC BY

Psychology is still digesting the implications of a large study published last month, in which a team led by University of Virginia’s Brian Nosek repeated 100 psychological experiments and found that only...

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Explainer: is it really OK to eat food that's fallen on the floor?

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imageIt's not still good.Sharon Sperry Bloom/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick up within five seconds? This urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won’t have much of a chance to contaminate it. Research in...

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