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Let's call athletes 'workers,' and let's call these NBA protests what they were – strikes

  • Written by Abraham I. Khan, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
imageWhen NBA players refused to take the court, athlete activism escalated to a new level.Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images

The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was the most consequential political development in sports over the last 50 years.

In recent years, the prevailing media...

Read more: Let's call athletes 'workers,' and let's call these NBA protests what they were – strikes

A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane Laura's damage in this area of oil fields and industry

  • Written by John Pardue, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
imageSmoke billowed from the fire at a chlorine plant in Westlake, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura moved through on Aug. 27. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Hurricane Laura plowed through the heart of Louisiana’s oil and chemical industries as a powerful Category 4 storm, leaving a chlorine plant on fire and the potential for more hazardous damage in...

Read more: A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane Laura's damage in this area of oil...

Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in cities can escalate violence and trigger conflict

  • Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageSending in the feds to quell unrest often increases conflict on the ground, as it did this summer in Portland, Ore.Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, paralyzed. The Aug. 23 shooting triggered...

Read more: Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in cities can escalate...

Maria Montessori challenged and changed how kids are taught, and remains influential today

  • Written by Catherine McTamaney, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University
imageThe education innovator, in London, in the late 1940s.AP Photo

One hundred and fifty years after Maria Montessori’s birth, tens of thousands of teachers around the world still hail her innovations and educational philosophy.

One of Italy’s first female doctors, Montessori applied her training as a scientist to teaching children in new...

Read more: Maria Montessori challenged and changed how kids are taught, and remains influential today

¿Cómo puedes utilizar la ventilación para prevenir la propagación de COVID-19 dentro de tu casa?

  • Written by Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
imageMantener las ventanas abiertas es la forma más sencilla de aumentar la ventilación en espacios interiores. Justin Paget / Digital Vision via Getty Images

La gran mayoría de la transmisión del SARS-CoV-2 ocurre en interiores, la mayor parte por inhalación de partículas en el aire que contienen el coronavirus....

Read more: ¿Cómo puedes utilizar la ventilación para prevenir la propagación de COVID-19 dentro de tu casa?

History tells us trying to stop diseases like COVID-19 at the border is a failed strategy

  • Written by Charles McCoy, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Plattsburgh
imageA traveler walks past screeners testing a system of thermal imaging cameras which check body temperatures at Los Angeles International Airport on June. 24, 2020.Mario Tama/Getty Images

To explain why the coronavirus pandemic is much worse in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, commentators have blamed the federal government’s mismanagedr...

Read more: History tells us trying to stop diseases like COVID-19 at the border is a failed strategy

Hurricane Laura was the latest storm to strengthen fast, but is rapid intensification really becoming more common?

  • Written by Chris Slocum, Physical Scientist, NOAA and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University
imageHurricane Laura intensified quickly over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall on Aug. 27, 2020. CSU/CIRA and NOAA/NESDIS, CC BY-ND

Hurricane Laura blew up quickly as it headed for the Louisiana coast, intensifying from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in less than 24 hours. By the time it made it landfall, it was a powerful Category 4...

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When police stop Black men, the effects reach into their homes and families

  • Written by Deadric T. Williams, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee
imageBlack men are stopped by police in disproportionate numbers. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention was focused squarely on Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed at the hands – and knees – of...

Read more: When police stop Black men, the effects reach into their homes and families

The US has lots to lose and little to gain by banning TikTok and WeChat

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
imageBanning TikTok and WeChat would cut off many Americans from popular social media.AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

The Trump administration’s recently announced bans on Chinese-owned social media platforms TikTok and WeChat could have unintended consequences. The ordersbar the apps from doing business in the U.S. or with U.S. persons or businesses...

Read more: The US has lots to lose and little to gain by banning TikTok and WeChat

One coup leads to another, history shows – though many in Mali hope theirs was the very rare 'good coup'

  • Written by Clayton Besaw, Political Science Researcher, University of Central Florida
imageThe scene in Mali's capital on Aug. 18, 2020, after Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and his prime minister were overthrown by the military.John Kalapo/Getty Images

Immediately after Mali’s unpopular president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, was removed on Aug. 18 by the military in a swift and bloodless coup, many Malians celebrated.

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Read more: One coup leads to another, history shows – though many in Mali hope theirs was the very rare 'good...

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