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For the parents of gender-nonconforming kids, a new approach to care

  • Written by Tey Meadow, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Self-knowledge rarely comes packaged in a single coherent narrative. Yet this is the expectation we have of the children in our lives.Billion Photos

Ari had a difficult time talking about his gender.

He had always been feminine, insisting on wearing only androgynous clothing, flowing pants in bright colors, patterned shirts and scarves. His hair...

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Why synthetic marijuana is so risky

  • Written by C. Michael White, Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
This photo provided by New York Police Department shows packets of synthetic marijuana seized after a search warrant was served at a newsstand in Brooklyn, New York.New York Police Department/AP Photo

The Green, a gathering place in New Haven, Connecticut, near Yale University looked like a mass casualty zone, with 70 serious drug overdoses over a...

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Detecting 'deepfake' videos in the blink of an eye

  • Written by Siwei Lyu, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Director, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab, University at Albany, State University of New York
It's actually very hard to find photos of people with their eyes closed.Bulin/Shutterstock.com

A new form of misinformation is poised to spread through online communities as the 2018 midterm election campaigns heat up. Called “deepfakes” after the pseudonymous online account that popularized the technique – which may have chosen...

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Will John McCain be the last Republican leader in the Senate to address climate change?

  • Written by Tim Profeta, Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Associate Professor of Practice, Duke University

“He was just doing his job.”

When I asked a longtime staffer to Sen. John McCain why the senator battled to address climate change in the early 2000s, that was his answer.

A simple answer, but one essential to understanding how McCain led those early efforts to combat the challenge when no one else would step forward.

Although others had...

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¿Qué está causando la crisis de algas en Florida? 5 preguntas con respuesta

  • Written by Karl Havens, Professor, Director of Florida Sea Grant, University of Florida
Las algas cubren la superficie del río Caloosahatchee en el W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam, 12 de julio de 2018, en Alva, Florida.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Nota del editor: Dos brotes de algas a gran escala están matando peces y amenazando la salud pública en Florida. A lo largo de la costa suroeste, uno de los brotes de marea roja...

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Tentative deal to replace NAFTA puts pressure on Canada in win for Trump

  • Written by Tim Meyer, FedEx Research Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

President Donald Trump on Aug. 27 announced an agreement that he said would replace NAFTA, an almost 25-year-old deal that allows most goods produced in North America to move duty-free across the continent.

Pointedly, the deal excludes Canada, one of the three original North American Free Trade Agreement signatories. All three had been working on...

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Elon Musk was right to drop his bungled plan to take Tesla private

  • Written by Erik Gordon, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Elon Musk changed his mind about privatizing Tesla.AP Photo/Paul Sakuma

Elon Musk shocked the world – including his own car company’s board – on Aug. 7 when he tweeted that he had the “funding secured” to take Tesla private. A little more than two weeks of uncertainty, confusion and a wildly fluctuating stock price...

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Cracking the sugar code: Why the 'glycome' is the next big thing in health and medicine

  • Written by Emanual Maverakis, Associate Professor- Departments of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Dermatology | Member- Foods For Health Institute | Member- Comprehensive Cancer Center | Director- Autoimmunity | Director- Immune Monitoring Core, University
By molekuul_be/shutterstock.com

When you think of sugar, you probably think of the sweet, white, crystalline table sugar that you use to make cookies or sweeten your coffee. But did you know that within our body, simple sugar molecules can be connected together to create powerful structures that have recently been found to be linked to health...

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Teaching V.S. Naipaul in the Caribbean

  • Written by J. Vijay Maharaj, Lecturer, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus

Like everyone else in the world, people on the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago learned on Aug. 11 that Trinidad-born Sir Vidia Naipaul – better known as V.S. Naipaul – had died.

While newspapers in the U.S. and Britain ran tributes to this titan of English-language literature, reactions in the Caribbean have been...

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Why the Catholic Church is so slow to act in sex abuse cases: 4 essential reads

  • Written by Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
Members of Chile's bishops conference, in May 2018, who say they are open to whatever Pope Francis proposes to overhaul the Chilean church devastated by a clergy sex abuse and cover-up scandal. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

The Vatican’s retired ambassador to the United States, Carlo Maria Vigano, has accused Pope Francis and other officials of...

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  5. Revolution Starts on Campus
  6. 1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to 'Gym Crow' and got worldwide attention
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  10. Glioblastoma topples an American hero, but researchers will continue the fight
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  12. Why it's so hard to hold priests accountable for sex abuse
  13. Turkish currency isn't the real problem for Erdoğan, it's democracy
  14. Qatar's $15 billion snub of Trump over Turkey puts another key US relationship in Middle East at risk
  15. The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world
  16. Far-sighted adaptation to rising seas is blocked by just fixing eroded beaches
  17. India has a sexual assault problem that only women can fix
  18. La devaluación 'desesperada' de la moneda de Venezuela no evitará un colapso económico
  19. Could the future edge in college sports be mental wellness?
  20. If you shelter in place during a disaster, be ready for challenges after the storm
  21. A Trump Administration casualty: Democracy and civil rights in the Middle East
  22. What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
  23. Hurricane season not only brings destruction and death but rising inequality too
  24. Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact
  25. Michael Cohen’s guilty plea? ‘Nothing to see here’
  26. Teens who feel down may benefit from picking others up
  27. Why the US has the campaign finance laws that Michael Cohen broke and what their history means for Trump
  28. There's a dark history to the campaign finance laws Michael Cohen broke — and that should worry Trump
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  30. A year after Hurricane Harvey, some Texans are using outdated flood risk maps to rebuild
  31. Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away
  32. Child pornography may make a comeback after court ruling guts regulations protecting minors
  33. Trump's coal plan – neither clean nor affordable
  34. For some Catholics, it is demons that taunt priests with sexual desire
  35. Could college textbooks soon get cheaper?
  36. Would you eat 'meat' from a lab? Consumers aren't necessarily sold on 'cultured meat'
  37. Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon
  38. ¿Qué tan decisivo será el 'voto latino' anti-Trump en las elecciones intermedias de EEUU?
  39. An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar
  40. What makes some species more likely to go extinct?
  41. Is China worsening the developing world's environmental crisis?
  42. Venezuela's 'desperate' currency devaluation won't save its economy from collapse
  43. Mentors play critical role in quality of college experience, new poll suggests
  44. How many babies in the US are wanted? Why it's so hard to count unintended pregnancy
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  46. The lies we tell on dating apps to find love
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