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The 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee you've never heard of

  • Written by James Walker, Executive Director, International Association for Communication and Sport, Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University

When the National Baseball Hall of Fame holds its 2016 induction ceremony on July 24, the names of the two player inductees – Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza – will be recognized by even the most casual baseball fan. Serious fans (and most New Englanders) will celebrate the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy, the recipient of the...

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As nuclear power plants close, states need to bet big on energy storage

  • Written by Eric Daniel Fournier, Post Doctoral Researcher, Spatial Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles
imageThe Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California is closing and the state has committed to replacing it with greenhouse-free sources of electricityDoc Searls, CC BY-NC-SA

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) recently started the process of shutting down the Diablo Canyon generation facility, the last active nuclear power plant in California. The...

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Attack in Nice exposes once again that our modern society lacks resilience

  • Written by Joseph Fiksel, Executive Director, Sustainable & Resilient Economy, The Ohio State University

The horrific attack in Nice that led to the deaths of at least 84 is just the latest event to expose the vulnerability of Western societies.

While the motives of the 31-year-old man who mowed down dozens of people celebrating Bastille Day along the promenade on July 14 will aren’t clear, one thing surely is: our complex global society lacks...

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America's police culture has a masculinity problem

  • Written by Frank Rudy Cooper, Professor of Law, Suffolk University

Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting early on Sunday, July 17 in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.

I know many strong critics of the police. Many of them are affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement. None of them stand for...

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What will it take to reduce infections in the hospital?

  • Written by Sanjay Saint, Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
imageMan in a hospital via ShutterstockFrom www.shutterstock.com

Ebola. Zika. Superbugs resistant to antibiotics.

The headlines brim with news of infectious threats. Our lawmakers just battled over more than $1 billion in funding for Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that has caused serious birth defects in at least nine babies born in the U.S. and has been...

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Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry?

  • Written by Lauren Collister, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
imageAnd you thought it just indicated the end of a sentence..."Dots" via www.shutterstock.com

When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention.

People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s goi...

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Why toxic algae blooms like Florida’s are so dangerous to people and wildlife

  • Written by Ernst B. Peebles, Associate Professor of Biological Oceanography, University of South Florida
imageDetail from a satellite photo of Lake Okeechobee's algae bloom and the St. Lucie canal into which water was released. Rising water levels from heavy winter rains had water managers worried that water would breach the dike.NASA

Reported cases of algal blooms, when algae grow rapidly from an influx of nutrients in waterways, have been rising at an exp...

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3D printing: a new threat to gun control and security policy?

  • Written by Daniel C. Tirone, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University
imageA computer design for home manufacturing of a receiver, the trigger and firing part, of a semi-automatic rifle.simonov/flickr, CC BY-SA

Following the recent mass shooting in Orlando, and the shootings in Minnesotaand Dallas, the sharp political divisions over gun control within the U.S. are once again on display. In June, House Democrats even staged...

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Another tragedy, another #PrayFor, but what does it really say about who cares for whom?

  • Written by Drew Margolin, Assistant Professor of Communication, Cornell University

The Bastille Day terror attack in Nice, France, brought the usual outpouring of emotion and expressions of support through social media. Front and center is the use of the #PrayForNice hashtag.

While this hashtag began years ago, it is becoming increasingly scrutinized as a social and political act. For example, after the Nice attacks, a number of...

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Dallas and Baton Rouge shooters: A reminder of the troubled history of black veterans in America

  • Written by Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University
imageA black U.S. Marine gives salute.U.S. Marine Corps

The recent shooting deaths of eight police officers in two separate incidents has shocked the nation and left us searching for answers.

On Sunday morning, Gavin Long engaged in a shootout with police in Baton Rouge that left three officers dead and three injured. Long was also killed.

Just 10 days...

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  1. Why Nice? Don't ignore France's troubled colonial legacy
  2. Curbing the marijuana industry's voracious energy appetite
  3. Blockchains: Focusing on bitcoin misses the real revolution in digital trust
  4. Sexting might actually be a sign of a committed relationship
  5. Was the Nice attacker really an IS 'lone wolf'?
  6. Why Pokemon Go became an instant phenomenon
  7. Mike Pence is the anti-Trump
  8. Nice attack: France's social fabric frays
  9. Will Trump use the convention to broadcast a more moderate image?
  10. Sea turtle ‘hitchhikers’ could play an important role in conservation
  11. Enough with the spoiler alerts! Plot spoilers often increase enjoyment
  12. Why public health worries don’t have to ruin your cookie dough
  13. After Fisher: affirmative action and Asian-American students
  14. What's at stake in China's claims to the South China Sea?
  15. Will Cleveland get an economic boost from Trump’s GOP coronation?
  16. How Twitter gives scientists a window into human happiness and health
  17. Moving exoskeletons from sci-fi into medical rehabilitation and therapy
  18. Racial inequality starts early – in preschool
  19. How did classified information get into those Hillary Clinton emails?
  20. Americans want a say in what happens to their donated blood and tissue in biobanks
  21. Up in smoke: We'll spend billions tomorrow for not helping poor people quit smoking today
  22. Can technology help fashion clean up its act?
  23. Loss for words: Art, language and the challenges of living on a changing planet
  24. Quantifying the social cost of firearms: a new approach to gun control
  25. Will the vice presidential candidates matter this year? Maybe, but not the way you think.
  26. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean-floor sea creatures in their natural setting
  27. Why debt-free college will not solve the real problems in America's higher education system
  28. From Grexit to Brexit, why EU's mess of rules designed to prevent crisis is causing it
  29. Making the case for a new Olympics model
  30. Dear Hillary: Where are the women in your energy strategy?
  31. Why emotional abuse in childhood may lead to migraines in adulthood
  32. What Black Lives Matter means beyond policing reform
  33. Slow death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?
  34. How to sell a product called democracy
  35. Is anything ever 'forgotten' online?
  36. Americans think national parks are worth US$92 billion, but we don't fund them accordingly
  37. NATO summit: Despite high public support for defense spending in Europe, discord over burden sharing emerges
  38. Why is it so hard to improve American policing?
  39. A tragic reminder that policing takes a toll on officers, too
  40. Fed's focus on 'too big to fail' won't save taxpayers from next bank bailout
  41. Freaks, geeks, norms and mores: why people use the status quo as a moral compass
  42. Should parents ask their children to apologize?
  43. Public health research reduced smoking deaths -- it could do the same for gun violence
  44. Debunking one of the biggest stereotypes about women in the gaming community
  45. There's more than practice to becoming a world-class expert
  46. What would Abraham Lincoln say to Donald Trump about religion, politics and being a 'Know Nothing'?
  47. Learning to live with wildfires: how communities can become 'fire-adapted'
  48. Can next-generation bomb 'sniffing' technology outdo dogs on explosives detection?
  49. Opioid crisis: How did we get here?
  50. Why are people starting to believe in UFOs again?