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Should the Fed raise rates? Wrong question – here's the right one

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imageFed Chair Janet Yellen's rates balancing act would be easier if the government got in the game.Reuters

The big question these days is when the Federal Reserve will finally raise its target interest rate for the first time in almost a decade. Its monetary policy committee is meeting this week to decide whether to do just...

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It's true. It matters when professors know their students' names

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imageWhat will make students have faith in their professors?Jeremy Wilburn, CC BY-NC-ND

The new academic year is off to a start, and thousands of students have entered college for the first time.

I’ve been teaching college students for a long time, but this year, two developments have led me to think hard about my role as a...

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If we burned all fossil fuels, would any of Antartica's ice survive?

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imageHow much staying power? A calving front of the Antarctic ice sheet.NASA/Jim Yungel, CC BY-SA

Here is a great ‘what-if’: If we (the human race) were to burn all available fossil fuels, could we melt the largest and most stable ice sheet on the planet – Antarctica? Could our collective industrial impacts on...

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Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a 'circular economy'

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imageWhat a waste.Landfill via www.shutterstock.com

The prosperity that we are enjoying today could largely be attributed to the industrial revolution of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Yet this enhancement of our standard of living has come at a steep price: the creation of the so-called linear economy.

In other words, we...

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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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imageStorm clouds for California?matso/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

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...

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

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