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Is Earth really getting too hot for people to survive? A scientist explains extreme heat and the role of climate change

  • Written by Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
imageHeat waves can get dangerously hot, especially when it's also humid.gjohnstonphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plusimage

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My parents said the planet is getting too hot for people to live here. They called it...

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What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’

  • Written by Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University
imageBorn into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America. Bettmann/Getty Images

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.

As many as 30 Black abolitionists and activists also traveled to Ireland between...

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Central banks face threats to their independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)

  • Written by Cristina Bodea, Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
imageDonald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. If returned to the White House, he may seek to replace him.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Nearly every country in the world has a central bank – a public institution that manages a country’s currency and its monetary policy. And these banks have an extraordinary amount of...

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Calls to US poison centers spiked after ‘magic mushrooms’ were decriminalized

  • Written by Christopher P. Holstege, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia

Calls to poison control centers spiked across the U.S. for adolescents and young adults exposed to the hallucinogen psilocybin, according to our analysis of data from 55 U.S. poison centers between 2013 and 2022. The calls increased after 2019 when psilocybin was decriminalized and legalized in several cities and states.

Psilocybin is a compound...

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From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it

  • Written by Danielle DeLeo, Postdoctoral Associate in Biological Sciences, Florida International University
imageThe bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009.Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND

Humans have long been fascinated by organisms that can produce light. Aristotle, who was a scientist as well as a philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more than 2,000 years ago. More...

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Supreme Court unanimously concludes that anti-abortion groups have no standing to challenge access to mifepristone – but the drug likely faces more court challenges

  • Written by Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
imageActivists on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up for it to be a major issue in the 2024 election. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decided to uphold access to mifepristone, one of two pills used in medication abortion. Mifepristone has long been used safely...

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Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in labor case that could hinder government’s ability to intervene in some unionization disputes

  • Written by Michael Z. Green, Professor of Law and Director, Workplace Law Program, Texas A&M University
imageThe coffee company pushed back against a step the National Labor Relations Board took tied to a store in Memphis.AP Photo/Joshua Bessex

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Starbucks in a case that could make it harder for a federal agency to enforce labor laws in disputes that can arise during organizing campaigns. On June 13, 2024, the court...

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An homage to the dad joke, one of the great traditions of fatherhood

  • Written by Ian Brodie, Professor of Folklore, Cape Breton University
imageSometimes lameness – not laughter – is the point.AHPhotoswpg/iStock via Getty Images

“Dad, I’m hungry.”

“Hi, hungry. I’m Dad.”

If you haven’t been asleep for the past 20 years, you’ll probably recognize this exchange as a dad joke.

The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial...

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The US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate − here’s how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources

  • Written by Steph Tai, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageRoads divide what once was a larger wetland into four smaller pools in east-central North Dakota.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Wetlands aren’t the most eye-catching ecosystems. They include swamps, bogs, fens and other places where soil is covered by water most of the time. But they perform a huge range of valuable services, from soaking up...

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Supreme Court justices secretly recorded – the legal issues and what they mean for the rest of us

  • Written by Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, photographed in 2018.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Posing as a “Christian conservative” at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s members-only, black-tie gala, liberal journalist and filmmaker Lauren Windsor secretly recorded her conversations with...

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  4. Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
  5. Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people
  6. Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning
  7. Spikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people
  8. Inflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024
  9. Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment
  10. Columbia Law Review article critical of Israel sparks battle between student editors and their board − highlighting fragility of academic freedom
  11. American womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson
  12. There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black
  13. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ may be many Americans’ image of Judaism – but American Jews’ heritage is stunningly diverse
  14. Politics is still both local and personal – but only for independents, not for Democrats or Republicans
  15. Wastewater surveillance reveals pathogens in Detroit’s population, helping monitor and predict disease outbreaks since 2017
  16. Paris 2024 Olympics to debut high-level breakdancing – and physics in action
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  18. African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans
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  23. Independent voters are few in number, influential in close elections – and hard for campaigns to reach
  24. Losing winter ice is changing the Great Lakes food web – here’s how light is shaping life underwater
  25. Are older adults more vulnerable to scams? What psychologists have learned about who’s most susceptible, and when
  26. Complaints are different when customers think a company cares
  27. Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor
  28. Biden and Trump may forget names or personal details, but here is what really matters in assessing whether they’re cognitively up for the job
  29. The warming ocean is leaving coastal economies in hot water
  30. How DEI rollbacks at colleges and universities set back learning
  31. American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too
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  35. How much do you need to know about how your spouse spends money? Maybe less than you think
  36. 2020’s ‘fake elector’ schemes will be harder to try in 2024 – but not impossible
  37. Why is it so hard to know how many independent voters there are?
  38. Getting services to people in need often relies on partnerships between government and nonprofits, but reporting requirements can be too onerous
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  41. Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
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  46. 5 reasons Supreme Court ethics questions are more common now than in the past
  47. Laws meant to keep different races apart still influence dating patterns, decades after being invalidated
  48. Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased
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