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¿Por qué duelen tanto las cortadas con papel?

  • Written by Gabriel Neal, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Texas A&M University
Un niño que sufrió una cortada con papel.Suzanne Tucker/Shutterstock.com

Piense, por un instante, en lo que significa una cortada con papel.

Por lo general, ocurre de manera repentina e inesperada y cuando ya has llegado a ese punto de una labor que había estado aplazando. Rememore la sensación de alivio que...

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Lawyers defending immigrant children in detention are relying on a court case from the 80s

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
An immigrant child looks out from a U.S. Border Patrol bus.AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have brought an old court case back to life in defense of immigrant children at the border, often referred to as “the Flores settlement.”

The case, which was filed in 1985 and settled in 1997,...

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Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? And if it does, what happens to abortion rights?

  • Written by B. Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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For people who care about abortion rights, these are worrying times.

Of course, pro-choice advocates began losing sleep the minute Donald Trump was elected. During the 2016 presidential election, Trump claimed that Roe v. Wade – the 1973 landmark decision establishing that women have a constitutional right to access abortion – would...

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Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence

  • Written by Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego
New suicide data indicates that years of record bloodshed in Mexico have traumatized residents in places where the violence is most concentrated. Reuters/Jorge Lopez

Mexico has suffered one of the world’s highest murder rates for over a decade, a consequence of the government’s aggressive, 12-year-long battle against drug trafficking...

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Genetic testing: Should I get tested for Alzheimer's risk?

  • Written by Troy Rohn, Professor of Biology, Boise State University
Genetic testing is available to people who want to know if they carry a variant of a gene that confers susceptibility for Alzheimer's. But knowing whether to get tested is hard. Billion Photos/Shutterstock.com

Thanks to advances in genetic testing, there is now a way for consumers to test for the greatest genetic risk factor for late-onset...

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What is a blockchain token?

  • Written by Stephen McKeon, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Oregon
What's this digital token good for, anyway?knipsdesign/Shutterstock.com

People are just becoming acquainted with the idea of digital money in the form of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, where transactions are recorded on a secure distributed database called a blockchain. And now along comes a new concept: the blockchain-based token, which I’ve...

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A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires

  • Written by Michael Kodas, Deputy Director, Center for Environmental Journalism, University of Colorado
Firefighters hose down flames from an advancing wildfire July 28, 2018, in Redding, Calif. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California, the Carr Fire in Shasta County has scorched more than 100,000 acres, and the Ferguson Fire has drive...

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No sufra desvelos: existen muchas soluciones para dormir mejor

  • Written by Brandon Peters-Mathews, Clinical Faculty Affiliate, Stanford University
Millones de personas alrededor del mundo padecen de desvelo, pero estar estresado no ayuda.Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com

Las graves consecuencias por la falta de suficientes horas de sueño atrapan constantemente la atención de nuestra sociedad. Y, con la premura del regreso a la escuela de los niños, esto se convierte en...

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Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms

  • Written by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
U.S. approval of making blueprints for 3D-printed guns available online has sparked an uproar.AP Photo/Matthew Daly

The current debate over a Texas company’s “right” to allow anyone to download blueprints to its 3D-printed guns is following the same well-trodden terrain as every firearms fight for the past few decades: differing...

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From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of rogue gun makers

  • Written by Timothy D. Lytton, Distinguished University Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
A 3D printed gunMitch Barrie via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC

Gun rights activist Cody Wilson got a green light from the Trump administration in June to publish digital blueprints on the internet that will enable anyone with a 3D printer to make a plastic gun.

A federal judge blocked distribution of those blueprints. But thousands of people have...

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