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Facebook's 'pivot' is less about privacy and more about profits

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to bolster his embattled company.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest promise is that his social media conglomerate will become a “privacy-focused” one. By turns lauded and lambasted, this move does not quite address users’ primary problems...

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How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters

  • Written by Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Syrian anti-government protesters march as part of an uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, in Banias, Syria, April 17, 2011. The Arabic banner at center reads: 'All of us would die for our country.'AP/Anonymous

Amid headlines about the Islamic State group and photographs of rubble, it can be easy to forget that the Syrian war began...

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College cheating scandal shows why elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students

  • Written by Natasha Warikoo, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University
U.S. Attorney for District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling announces indictments in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal March 12.Steven Senne/AP

Many Americans are outraged by the college admission scandal revealed by the FBI on March 12. The scandal involves celebrities and wealthy investors who allegedly bought their children’s...

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When does a winter storm become a bomb cyclone?

  • Written by Russ Schumacher, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
Frozen fountain in New York City during a bomb cyclone event, Jan. 4, 2018.RW/MediaPunch/IPX

Blizzards in March, when our thoughts start turning to spring, are never good news. But warnings of “bomb cyclones” take the intensity to a new level. What does this ominous term, and related jargon like “bombogenesis,” tell us about...

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Why North Korean prosperity would be the ruin of Kim Jong Un

  • Written by Thomas Adam, Professor of Transnational History, University of Texas Arlington
An employee watches a bank of TV's broadcasting a news report on a Hanoi summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 28, 2019.Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji

Vietnam seemed like the perfect place for Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to meet in late February for their latest summit...

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Purdue Pharma: Bankruptcy filing would make lawsuits slower and costlier for plaintiff cities and states

  • Written by Nicolas Paul Terry, Professor of Law, Indiana University
Purdue faces about 2,000 lawsuits related to the opioid crisis.AP Photo/Toby Talbot

A report that Purdue Pharma may file for bankruptcy has manywondering how bankruptcy would affect the ongoing opioid litigation.

Nationwide the OxyContin maker as well as other drug manufacturers and distributors face about 2,000 lawsuits related to allegations that...

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Trump's executive order on drone strikes sends civilian casualty data back into the shadows

  • Written by Daniel R. Brunstetter, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over southern Afghanistan.AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

When it comes to drones and warfare, the U.S. seems to have forgotten some valuable historical lessons.

On March 6, President Trump signed an executive order that revoked the requirement, formulated under the Obama administration, that U.S. intelligence...

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The truth about St. Patrick's Day

  • Written by James Farrelly, Professor of English, University of Dayton
A man dressed as Saint Patrick blesses the crowd in Dublin as the parade makes its way through the Irish capital in 1998.AP Photo/John Cogill

In 1997, my students and I traveled to Croagh Patrick, a mountain in County Mayo, as part of a study abroad program course on Irish literature I was teaching for the University of Dayton. I wanted my students...

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Robots guarded Buddha's relics in a legend of ancient India

  • Written by Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
Two small figures guard the table holding the Buddha's relics. Are they spearmen, or robots?British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA

As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria, in Egypt, were building real mechanical robots a...

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Escalator etiquette: Should I stand or walk for an efficient ride?

  • Written by Lesley Strawderman, Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University
The science of getting quickly and safely to the bottom.Ryan Tang/Unsplash, CC BY

Love them or hate them, traffic laws exist to keep people safe and to help vehicles flow smoothly. And while they aren’t legally enforceable, pedestrian traffic also tends to follow its own set of unwritten rules.

Most pedestrians use walking etiquette as a way...

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  2. US pulls diplomats from its embassy in Caracas, and tensions between Venezuela and Brazil escalate
  3. Can a genetic test predict if you will develop Type 2 diabetes?
  4. There's no way to stop human trafficking by treating it as an immigration enforcement problem
  5. Diets can do more than help you lose weight – they could also save the planet
  6. Skilled blue-collar jobs are growing – though women aren't getting them
  7. Sen. Martha McSally, pioneering Air Force pilot, shows how stereotypes victimize sexual assault survivors again
  8. Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north
  9. After 100 years, Mussolini's fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom
  10. Stemming the tide of trash: 5 essential reads on recycling
  11. Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?
  12. Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change
  13. US military steps up cyberwarfare effort
  14. What lessons can the clergy sex abuse crisis draw from a 4th-century church schism?
  15. Humans and machines can improve accuracy when they work together
  16. Pregnant women shouldn't have to choose between a job and a healthy baby
  17. Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together
  18. Underwater mudslides are the biggest threat to offshore drilling, and energy companies aren't ready for them
  19. Millennials are US$1 trillion in debt – but they're better at saving than previous generations
  20. Why Spain needs more feminism in the classroom
  21. The US government might charge for satellite data again – here's why that would be a big mistake
  22. Mass-market electric pickup trucks and SUVs are on the way
  23. Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?
  24. Charter school cap efforts gain momentum
  25. How women wage war – a short history of IS brides, Nazi guards and FARC insurgents
  26. Refugees forced to return to Syria face imprisonment, death at the hands of Assad
  27. Sex trafficking in the US: 4 questions answered
  28. Thoreau's great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not a place
  29. 3 ways activist kids these days resemble their predecessors
  30. Veterans are concerned about climate change, and that matters
  31. University of California's break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good
  32. 11 things you can do to adjust to losing that 1 hour of sleep this weekend
  33. New AI art has artists, collaborators wondering: Who gets the credit?
  34. #StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women's fight against sexual harassment didn't start with #MeToo
  35. Once captives of Boko Haram, these students are finding new meaning in their lives in Pennsylvania
  36. How to prevent the 'robot apocalypse' from ending labor as we know it
  37. Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help
  38. Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual violence
  39. Brazil and Venezuela clash over migrants, humanitarian aid and closed borders
  40. A prison program in Connecticut seeks to find out what happens when prisoners are treated as victims
  41. A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized
  42. Hoda Muthana wants to come home from Syria – just like many loyalist women who fled to Canada during the American Revolution
  43. US takes tentative steps toward opening up government data
  44. Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?
  45. Sexism has long been part of the culture of Southern Baptists
  46. How to distinguish a psychopath from a 'shy-chopath'
  47. The shutdown brought people who rely on SNAP an extra helping of economic hardship
  48. Ensuring racial equality – from classrooms to workplaces – depends on federal regulations Trump could roll back
  49. Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
  50. #MeToo whistleblowing is upending A century-old legal precedent in US demanding loyalty to the boss