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The West is on fire – and the US taxpayer is subsidizing it

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imageRaging – and costly.US National Parks Service, CC BY-SA

The western US is burning.

This year’s damaging experience is just the latest in a recent series of devastating wildfire seasons, a trend that will only likely increase over the coming years.

Over the last few decades, and especially since 2000, the wildfire season is getting longer,...

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Why do people feel 'a rose by any other name' wouldn't fit as well?

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imageA rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but it just doesn't feel right.Mark A Neal, CC BY-NC-ND

Words are symbols that help humans communicate. The link between words and what they refer to is, with very few exceptions, arbitrary. Many of the words that we currently use (“table,” “dog,” “mug,” etc) could...

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Brian Williams returns to the air – and memory research says we should give him a break

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imageBrian Williams will be a breaking news reporter for MSNBC.Lucas Jackson/Reuters

After being suspended without pay from NBC in February, Brian Williams returns to television this week. He won’t be heading back to the Nightly News desk (now anchored by Lester Holt), but he will be reporting breaking news updates on MSNBC, beginning with the...

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How an art history class became more engaging with Twitter

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imageCan Twitter improve students' engagement with course materials?Lauren Ann JImerson, Author provided

When I was a college student, art history courses revolved around a 1960s-era carousel slide projector. Its monotonous humming and clicking in the darkened lecture hall often put my classmates to sleep.

For years, technology used in college art...

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How native advertisements could be the solution to the internet's bad-ad problem

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imageAds that appear in broadsheet newspapers continue to have more appeal than their annoying, online counterparts. 'Laptop,' via www.shutterstock.com

Website ads fidget, interrupt and mislead. They’re loud and ungainly. They fixate on things you may not care about and they sometimes spread viruses.

Like adolescent boys, their designers seem to be...

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How Europe helped save Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran

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imageObama owes these three a thank you note.Reuters

Republicans in Congress failed to block the Iran nuclear agreement from taking effect by the September 17 deadline, which means the Obama administration can now focus on implementing the historic accord.

On the surface it might appear that the key players who lobbied lawmakers the hardest for the...

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