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WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, proving social media's danger to democracy

  • Written by Luca Belli, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, School of Law, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Misinformation via social media played a troubling role in boosting far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro to into the Brazilian presidency.

Bolsonaro did not win 55 percent of votes thanks to misinformation alone. A powerful desire for political change in Brazil after a yearslong corruption scandal and a court decision compelling the jailed...

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Chicago's Safe Passage program costs a lot, but it may provide students safer routes to school

  • Written by F. Chris Curran, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A safety guard watches as parents walk with their children along a safe passage route on the first day of school in Chicago in 2013.Spencer Green/AP

While walking to school last month, a 15-year-old Chicago girl was confronted by two masked men in a van with tinted windows in an attempted kidnapping. Fortunately, the girl escaped and ran to a...

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El acceso universal a Internet en México reduciría la pobreza

  • Written by Jack J. Barry, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Connecticut
Habitantes de Ciudad de México navegan por la web en una "aldea digital" en 2015 dentro del programa del Gobierno para asegurar el acceso a Internet de todos los ciudadanosAP Photo/Sofia Jaramillo

Internet es un derecho en México desde 2013, año en que se modificó la Constitución de la nación para...

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Opening up mosquito research labs to the community

  • Written by Brook Muller, Professor of Architecture and Environment, University of Oregon
View of Taichung City, Taiwan, behind a mosquito net. Alan Picard / Shutterstock.com

By bringing people close to disease-spreading insects, might we improve public health?

Because they spread malaria, Zika, West Nile, dengue, yellow fever and other diseases, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other organism. Some of these...

Read more: Opening up mosquito research labs to the community

White nationalist groups are really street gangs, and law enforcement needs to treat them that way

  • Written by Matthew Valasik, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Law enforcement has a classification problem, and it’s making America more dangerous.

For the last two decades, local police and the FBI have categorized the criminal activities of white power groups as isolated incidents or hate-related.

We believe that’s wrong and leads to a lack of understanding of the power of these groups and the...

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What public universities must do to regain public support

  • Written by Stephen M Gavazzi, Professor, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
Public support for higher education has waned in recent years.HTU/www.shutterstock.com

Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research that matters most to the...

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Opening up research labs with modified mosquitoes to the community

  • Written by Brook Muller, Professor of Architecture and Environment, University of Oregon
View of Taichung City, Taiwan, behind a mosquito net. Alan Picard / Shutterstock.com

By bringing people close to disease-spreading insects, might we improve public health?

Because they spread malaria, Zika, West Nile, dengue, yellow fever and other diseases, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other organism. Some of these...

Read more: Opening up research labs with modified mosquitoes to the community

Switching to electric vehicles could save the US billions, but timing is everything

  • Written by F. Todd Davidson, Research Associate, Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Charging six cars at once is fine. Charging 60 million might be a bit tougher.Nadya Kubik/Shutterstock.com

Today, less than 2 percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric vehicles could make up the majority of U.S. and global car sales.

All told, American...

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Why the next two years are critical for the Paris climate deal's survival

  • Written by Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management (Emeritus) and Joint Program the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Sloan School of Management
Work cut out for them: Climate negotiators need to ensure the Paris Agreement can still hold.United Nations Climate Change, CC BY-NC

A mounting sense of urgency will greet negotiators as they arrive at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland. In 2015, after 20 years of trying and failing to reach a global accord on...

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I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history

  • Written by Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba.David LaFevor, CC BY-SA

Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of enslaved Africans escaping from Protestant Carolina to find religious sanctuary in...

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  2. Spending too much time on your phone? Behavioral science has an app for that
  3. Criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's clothes echoes attacks against early female labor activists
  4. Este activista alemán luchó por los derechos gay y trans hace cien años
  5. Scientist at work: To take atomic-scale pictures of tiny crystals, use a huge, kilometer-long synchrotron
  6. George H.W. Bush laid the foundation for education reform
  7. How where you're born influences the person you become
  8. Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can't escape human impacts
  9. US-China trade war truce: 2 reasons why it's unlikely to last
  10. 1 in 4 government officials accused of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era is still in office today
  11. The big lessons of political advertising in 2018
  12. YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
  13. CRISPR babies raise an uncomfortable reality – abiding by scientific standards doesn't guarantee ethical research
  14. Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
  15. George H.W. Bush understood that markets and the environment weren't enemies
  16. Climate change is shrinking winter snowpack, which harms Northeast forests year-round
  17. How Hanukkah came to America
  18. Why we'll miss George H.W. Bush, America's last foreign policy president
  19. Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom line
  20. LGBTQ caravan migrants may have to 'prove' their gender or sexual identity at US border
  21. G-20 leaders descend on Buenos Aires as host Argentina battles worst economic crisis in a decade
  22. Dorothy Day -- 'a saint for our times'
  23. How mainstream media helps weaponize far-right conspiracy theories
  24. AIDS treatment has progressed, but without a vaccine, suffering still abounds
  25. López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises
  26. Most caregivers of people with dementia are family members, and they need help
  27. Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office
  28. Climate change is making soils saltier, forcing many farmers to find new livelihoods
  29. America's dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in today's far-right groups
  30. The surprising way plastics could actually help fight climate change
  31. How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby – and what health worries may ensue
  32. Will Trump pardon Manafort?
  33. Swamped by cyberthreats, citizens need government protection
  34. Trump was dealt a winning hand on trade – his hardball negotiating tactics are squandering it
  35. How Salvation Army's red kettles became a Christmas tradition
  36. What big data can tell us about how a book becomes a best-seller
  37. Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing firearm injury
  38. Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans
  39. 5 ways to help robots work together with people
  40. Low-income parents want a white picket fence, not just money, before getting married
  41. In Georgia's gubernatorial race, Stacey Abrams' strategy may make victory easier for future black candidates in the South
  42. Companies blocked from using West Coast ports to export fossil fuels keep seeking workarounds
  43. Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi case: What would Obama have done?
  44. Rogue science strikes again: The case of the first gene-edited babies
  45. The road to enhancement, via human gene editing, is paved with good intentions
  46. The key to fixing the gender gap in math and science: Boost women's confidence
  47. Why aren't there electric airplanes yet?
  48. Kim Kardashian West and ecstasy: A reminder of the social dangers of the drug
  49. Living drugs: Engineering bacteria to treat genetic diseases
  50. Instagram posts suggest e-scooter companies like Bird aren't promoting safe riding to newbies