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Believing in free will makes you feel more like your true self

  • Written by Elizabeth Seto, Ph.D. Candidate in Social and Personality Psychology, Texas A&M University
imageBelieving in free will makes us feel more like ourselves.Man walking via www.shutterstock.com.

Do we have free will? This is a question that scholars have debated for centuries and will probably continue to debate for centuries to come.

This isn’t a question I can answer, but what I am interested in is “what happens if we do (or do not)...

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Does TPP's slow death mean the world is now unsafe for trade deals?

  • Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University

It seems that the world has become unsafe for trade agreements. In particular, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major new trade deal among the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, has become a political lightning rod for both the left and the right.

As if to highlight that fact once again, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said...

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Former chief White House ethics lawyer: Clinton Foundation controversy is just a distraction from bigger issue

  • Written by Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota

Hillary Clinton’s critics claim that federal ethics laws were broken when her subordinates at the State Department arranged meetings and other favors for donors to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation.

Evidence is still surfacing as to who at the State Department did what and why. But as a former chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush...

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TV news stories about birth control quote politicians and priests more often than medical experts

  • Written by Elizabeth W. Patton, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan
imageMedical experts are rarely quoted in TV news stories about contraception.Image of TV studio via www.shutterstock.com.

Ninety-nine percent of reproductive age U.S. women who have ever had sex have used contraception at some point in their lives. And thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, more people have access to...

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Cybathlon: A bionics competition for people with disabilities

  • Written by Robert Riener, Professor of Sensory-Motor Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Millions of people worldwide rely on orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and other assistive devices to improve their quality of life. In the United States alone, there are more than 1.6 million people with limb amputations. The World Health Organization estimates the number of wheelchair users to be about 65 million people worldwide.

It is...

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Who should pay for our corn ethanol policy – Big Oil or gas stations?

  • Written by Tristan R. Brown, Assistant Professor of Energy Resource Economics, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
imageEthanol made from corn goes into our gas tanks. Now refiners who pay for the subsidy are complaining of rising costs. armydre2008/flickr, CC BY

When most of us refuel our car or truck with gas, we’re also filling up with ethanol – the E10 label on many gas pumps indicates that 10 percent of the fuel is ethanol.

The reason we run our...

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Immigration: Five essential reads

  • Written by Danielle Douez, Associate Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to immigration and the presidential campaign.

Donald Trump took a last-minute trip to Mexico on Wednesday. He met with President Enrique Peña Nieto before appearing at a rally in Arizona, in which he sought to clarify his positions on immigration.

Those who were...

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Why Colin Kaepernick is like George Washington

  • Written by Christopher Sebastian Parker, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Washington

If you haven’t heard by now, the star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Colin Kaepernick, refused to stand for the national anthem over the weekend.

This wasn’t the first time, and he plans to continue until conditions for people of color improve:

“I’ll continue to sit. I’m going to continue to stand with the...

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To fix America’s child care, let’s look at the past

  • Written by Corey Shdaimah, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
imageWhy is America missing good-quality child care?Philippe Put, CC BY

In what might be the most contentious election campaign season yet, the main presidential candidates seem to agree on at least one issue – that the policy around child care for American families needs improvement.

Donald Trump has said he would expand tax credits to enable...

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How does a computer know where you're looking?

  • Written by Ann McNamara, Associate Professor of Visualization, Texas A&M University
imageHow much information is too much? And where should it go?Heads-up display image from shutterstock.com

Imagine driving a car, using a heads-up display projection on the windshield to navigate through an unfamiliar city. This is augmented reality (AR); the information is used to not only guide you along a route, but also to alert you to salient...

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  5. Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley's 'free' apps a free pass?
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  7. The most important dam you probably haven't heard of
  8. Why has Japan's massacre of disabled gone unnoticed? For answers, look to the past
  9. Guns in Donald Trump's America
  10. Finding better ways to get hydrogen fuel from water
  11. A tale of two GDPs: Why Republicans and Democrats live in different economic realities
  12. How victims of terror are remembered distorts perceptions of safety
  13. Will a merged Tesla-SolarCity put a solar-powered battery in every home?
  14. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids sold as counterfeits in deadly new trend
  15. How men benefit from family-friendly tenure policies
  16. Failed coup in Turkey means thousands are voting with their feet
  17. Scientists at work: Public archaeologists dig before the construction crews do
  18. Russia's aggressive power is resurgent, online and off
  19. Polio eradication effort challenged, but not derailed
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  27. Understanding mosquitoes can help us find better ways to kill them
  28. Getting serious about funny: Psychologists see humor as a character strength
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  31. Why silence continues to surround pregnancy discrimination in the workplace
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  33. How the Islamic State recruits and coerces children
  34. Voter ID laws: Why black Democrats' fight for the ballot in Mississippi still matters
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  37. How Dostoevsky predicted Trump's America
  38. Suburban sprawl and poor preparation worsened flood damage in Louisiana
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  40. King Coal is dethroned in the US – and that's good news for the environment
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  42. Relationship advice from the government doesn't help low-income couples – here's what might
  43. How racism has shaped welfare policy in America since 1935
  44. Big Tobacco aims its guns to kill California tobacco tax
  45. Why we're wrong to blame immigrants for our sputtering economies
  46. With skateboarding's inclusion in Tokyo 2020, a once-marginalized subculture enters the spotlight
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