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How the US military is using 'violent, chaotic, beautiful' video games to train soldiers

  • Written by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Trento
image'Counter-Strike' has sold over 25 million units, making it one of the most popular first-person shooters of all time.Miyaoka Hitchcock/flickr, CC BY-NC

Violent video games have become embedded within American culture over the past several decades and especially since 9/11. First-person shooters, in particular, have become increasingly popular.

These...

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Low-income girls often feel unprepared for puberty

  • Written by Marni Sommer, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center
imageMany low-income girls in the U.S. don't feel prepared for puberty.Image of girls via www.shutterstock.com.

My colleagues and I have conducted research focused on understanding and addressing the gap in menstrual support in countries around the world for over a decade.

Sometimes the problem is that girls don’t have access to toilets or clean...

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What fax machines can teach us about electric cars

  • Written by Jonathan Coopersmith, Professor of History, Texas A&M University
imageNo common standard: CHAdeMO, CCS and Tesla Supercharger plugs.CHAdeMO: C-CarTom; CCS: Hadhuey; Tesla: Paul Sladen, CC BY-SA

Imagine if you could gas up your GM car only at GM gas stations. Or if you had to find a gas station servicing cars made from 2005 to 2012 to fill up your 2011 vehicle. It would be inconvenient and frustrating, right? This is...

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Famines in the 21st century? It's not for lack of food

  • Written by Daniel Maxwell, Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
imageSorting bags of food dropped by air from a World Food Programme plane in Padeah, South Sudan, March 1, 2017. AP Photo/Sam Mednick

Famine killed nearly 75 million people in the 20th century, but had virtually disappeared in recent decades. Now, suddenly, it is back. In late February a famine was declared in South Sudan, and warnings of famine have...

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Trump's immigration executive orders: The demise of due process and discretion

  • Written by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Founding Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Pennsylvania State University

The U.S. immigration code, passed by Congress in 1952, rivals the tax code in its level of complexity.

In January, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders on immigration that have made matters more complicated for immigrants and the lawyers and advocates who fight on their behalf.

As an immigration lawyer and teacher, I have spent...

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No doubt about it: smokefree laws cut heart attacks in big way

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageA no smoking sign in London. Via Flickr.kafka4prez/flickr, CC BY-SA

There is strong and consistent evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart attacks and that smokefree workplace and public place laws cut heart attacks (and other diseases). The most recent evidence comes from a large study in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where heart attack...

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Rape on campus: Athletes, status, and the sexual assault crisis

  • Written by Lisa Wade, Professor of Sociology, Occidental College
imageFormer Vanderbilt football player Brandon Vandenburg was sentenced to 17 years after being convicted in a college rape case.AP Photo/Mark Humphrey

The feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon once argued that rape was not prohibited, but merely regulated. She was writing in 1989, four years before it became illegal to rape one’s spouse in...

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Trump's revised travel ban still faces legal challenges

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
imageMen watch the TV news in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 6, 2017. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban

President Trump’s new executive order on immigration addresses some of the legal problems found by courts in the Jan. 27 original order, but is still vulnerable on some of the same legal grounds.

As a constitutional law professor who has recently written on this...

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Why artificial turf may truly be bad for kids

  • Written by Stuart Shalat, Professor and Director of the Division of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
imageSoccer player on artificial turf. From www.shutterstock.com

If you want to get a soccer mom’s attention, bring up the subject of artificial turf, the preferred playing surface for children from pre-K to college – or at least preferred by school boards and parks and recreation departments.

From concerns about concussions to cancer,...

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How traditional medicine can play a key role in Latino health care

  • Written by Courtney Parker, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Public Health, University of Georgia
imageMeticulously marked natural remedies at Latino American botánica, Fuente de Salud.Courtney Parker, CC BY

In the U.S., many undocumented individuals and other vulnerable groups in the Latino immigrant population, such as indigenous language speakers, are already marginalized from mainstream health services. Increased scrutiny and a growing...

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  14. How Republicans and Democrats can both keep their promises on health care
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  24. Dealing with hate: Can America's truth and reconciliation commissions help?
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  42. America's mass deportation system is rooted in racism
  43. America's mass deportation system is rooted in racism
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  46. Why Trump's EPA is far more vulnerable to attack than Reagan's or Bush's
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