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What is the Great Commission and why is it so controversial?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross
Missionary nuns in a Congolese military camp in 1960.AP Photo/Horst Faas

A majority of church-going American Christians are unfamiliar with the term, the “Great Commission,” a recent survey found.

Even among those familiar with it, 25 percent recognized the phrase but could not explain what it was. Only 17 percent were familiar with the...

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How your genes could affect the quality of your marriage

  • Written by Richard Mattson, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Does a good marriage depend on having the right genes? Tiffany Bryant/Shutterstock.com

How important is it to consider a romantic partner’s genetic profile before getting married?

It is logical to think that genetic factors may underlie many traits already used by matching sites - like personality and empathy - which many assume could promote...

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School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they open fire, our database shows

  • Written by Jillian Peterson, Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
School shooters tend to have a death wish, new research shows.Constantine Pankin from www.shutterstock.com

Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and executed them one by one, the student, who would become the gunman, tried to show his English teacher something important.

He had quietly slid up his sleeves to reveal...

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Bike-friendly cities should be designed for everyone, not just for wealthy white cyclists

  • Written by Anne Lusk, Research Scientist, Harvard University
This narrow street, lined with parked cars but devoid of people, is both unwelcoming and unsafe for cyclists.Anne Lusk, CC BY-ND

Designing for bikes has become a hallmark of forward-looking modern cities worldwide. Bike-friendly city ratings abound, and advocates promote cycling as a way to reduce problems ranging from air pollution to traffic...

Read more: Bike-friendly cities should be designed for everyone, not just for wealthy white cyclists

Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, physicists believed it energetically...

Read more: Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, physicists believed it energetically...

Read more: Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

ICE detainees on hunger strike are being force-fed, just like Guantánamo detainees before them

  • Written by A. Naomi Paik, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Protesters depicting detainees of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is force-feeding nine detainees who are on a hunger strike at a detention center in El Paso, Texas.

The protesters are mostly from India and are being held in ICE custody while their...

Read more: ICE detainees on hunger strike are being force-fed, just like Guantánamo detainees before them

Journalism needs an audience to survive, but isn't sure how to earn its loyalty

  • Written by Jacob L. Nelson, Assistant Professor of digital audience engagement, Arizona State University
Is connecting with their audience key to journalism's future?Shutterstock

Journalism is in the midst of an existential crisis: the profession has undergone decades of declines in readership, revenue and public trust, with no obvious end in sight.

Many in the industry believe that the best way for newsrooms to recover both revenue and public trust is...

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Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many ways besides climate change

  • Written by Noel Healy, Associate Professor of Geography, Salem State University
The Flint Hills Resources oil refinery, near downtown Houston.AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New Deal, a package of policies that would mobilize vast amounts of money to create new jobs and address inequality while fighting climate change.

Led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, they are...

Read more: Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many ways besides climate change

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