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George Washington's biggest battle? With his dentures, made from hippo ivory and maybe slaves' teeth

  • Written by William Maloney, Clinical Associate Professor of Dentistry, New York University
George Washington faced many challenges regarding his teethNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

We have all heard the tales about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River and, of course, wearing wooden teeth.

They are all just myths, but one thing is certain: The father of our country...

Read more: George Washington's biggest battle? With his dentures, made from hippo ivory and maybe slaves' teeth

Red, white but rarely blue - the science of fireworks colors, explained

  • Written by Paul E. Smith, Lecture Demonstrator for Chemistry, Purdue University
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices that commonly come in around seven colors.Shahril KHMD/Shutterstock.com

In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires...

Read more: Red, white but rarely blue - the science of fireworks colors, explained

Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors, explained

  • Written by Paul E. Smith, Lecture Demonstrator for Chemistry, Purdue University
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices that commonly come in around seven colors.Shahril KHMD/Shutterstock.com

In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires...

Read more: Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors, explained

Will they ever wake up? New study on consciousness after brain injury shows 'maybe'

  • Written by Katharina M. Busl, Associate Professor, Neurology. Chief, Division of Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
A new study on consciousness could help answer the question"will they ever wake up?" create jobs 51/shutterstock.com

Acute brain injury can result in significant damage and loss of consciousness, warranting life support and admission to an intensive care unit. A complex journey toward recovery begins, sometimes involving daily life-and-death...

Read more: Will they ever wake up? New study on consciousness after brain injury shows 'maybe'

Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental health

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
In 2018, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love went public with his panic attacks and struggles with anxiety.Reuters/Kim Klement-USA Today Sports

The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after collecting a career achievement award from the Association for Women in Sports...

Read more: Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental health

Male nonprofit CEOs earn more – but the problem runs deeper than a simple gender pay gap

  • Written by Young-Joo Lee, Director of the Master's Program in Nonprofit Management, University of Central Florida
This is not what board meetings at the biggest nonprofits usually look like.Monkey Business Images/Shuttertock.com

Although about three out of every four Americans working for nonprofits are women, men hold a disproportional share of the highest-paid nonprofit jobs.

What’s more, the share of women in top management jobs decreases as an...

Read more: Male nonprofit CEOs earn more – but the problem runs deeper than a simple gender pay gap

Men do see the mess – they just aren't judged for it the way women are

  • Written by Sarah Thebaud, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Does this look messy to you?studiovin/Shutterstock.com

On a typical day, men spend a third as much time cleaning as women.

Does that make women beacons of cleanliness, while men are genetically unable to see the messiness in their midst?

This myth is a common explanation for why men don’t do as much housework as women. Men walk into a room and...

Read more: Men do see the mess – they just aren't judged for it the way women are

It takes years to fully recover from big storms like Sandy

  • Written by Jack L. Harris, Assistant Professor of Communication, State University of New York at New Paltz
A Monmouth County, N.J. home in 2015Jack L. Harris, CC BY-SA

The 2012 hurricane widely known as Superstorm Sandy left at least an estimated 325,000 New Jersey homes damaged or destroyed. Nearly seven years later, many of the New Jersey residents who have not fully recovered have to fend for themselves.

The government funding has mostly dried up. Only...

Read more: It takes years to fully recover from big storms like Sandy

Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies

  • Written by Adriana Briscoe, Professor of Biology, University of California, Irvine
Adriana Briscoe, in the greenhouse with a blue morpho, University of California, Irvine, June 2019Wes Koseki - UCI School of Biological Sciences, CC BY-SA

An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana Briscoe studies the evolution of vision in butterflies and how they see color. Briscoe is currently working on her first...

Read more: Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies

Al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11

  • Written by Christian Taylor, Doctoral Student, George Mason University
Yemen's al-Qaida branch, called al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is the most dangerous and sophisticated offshoot of the terror group Osama bin Laden founded in Afghanistan in 1988. AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Al-Qaida has recruited an estimated 40,000 fighters since Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group attacked the United...

Read more: Al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11

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