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Does college turn people into liberals?

  • Written by Matthew J. Mayhew, William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration, The Ohio State University
A new study reveals that students gain an appreciation for views across the political spectrum during their first year in college.Shutterstock.com

Does going to college make students into political liberals?

Conservative activists have claimed that universities brainwash students and indoctrinate them into believing a liberal ideology. The line of...

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As Arctic sea ice shrinks, new research shows how much energy polar bears use to find food

  • Written by Anthony Pagano, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
A polar bear breaks through think Arctic ice.USGS

Polar bears live in a remote and inhospitable environment far from most human settlements. For most biologists, opportunities to observe these animals are fleeting. In fact, scientists’ main resources for understanding basic behaviors of polar bears on sea ice are observations of polar bear...

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How kindness can make a difference in cancer care

  • Written by Leonard L. Berry, University Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School; Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Texas A&M University
In this Dec. 3, 2014 photo, liver cancer patient Crispin Lopez Serrano talks to an oncology nurse at a hospital in Clackamas, Ore.AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka

Cancer may not be life-ending, but it usually is life-changing. A cancer diagnosis instantaneously turns life upside down for patients and families. Cancer care is a “high-emotion”...

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#MeToo is riding a new wave of feminism in India

  • Written by Alka Kurian, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell

Reading other women’s #MeToo stories brings back memories of my sexual abuse as a young girl growing up in the late 1970s and 1980s in India.

Like many women, I couldn’t talk about it then. India had a tradition-bound society with strict gender norms and expectations. But a lot has changed since.

A new and powerful anti-sexism movement...

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How lotto scammers defraud elderly Americans and fuel gang wars in Jamaica

  • Written by Damion Blake, Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy Studies, Elon University

Normally, January and February are high season for the Jamaican beach city of Montego Bay. But this year, an upsurge in shootings and other violent crime has lead many sunseekers to steer clear.

On Jan. 18, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a state of emergency in Montego Bay and surrounding St. James Parish. Hotels, restaurants,...

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What's behind America's promotion of religious liberty abroad

  • Written by Gene Zubovich, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St Louis
Samuel Brownback appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

On Jan. 24, the Senate confirmed Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas – a Methodist, who converted to Catholicism and today attends an evangelical church – for the position of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. On...

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Why I teach a course called 'White Racism'

  • Written by Ted Thornhill, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida Gulf Coast University
Florida Gulf Coast University professor Ted Thornhill discusses his course on 'White Racism.'Aaron Nunes-Zaller, CC BY-ND

The need for students to learn about racism in American society existed long before I began teaching a course called “White Racism” at Florida Gulf Coast University earlier this year.

I chose to title my course “...

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Charity and taxes: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
About 1 in 20 taxpayers may fill out this part of their returns beginning with the 2018 tax year. Sean Locke Photography/Shutterstock.com

Editor’s note: Patrick Rooney, associate dean for academic affairs and research at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, weighs in on why Americans who have lost incentives to give to...

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The deepest-dwelling fish in the sea is small, pink and delicate

  • Written by Mackenzie Gerringer, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
Image from video of Mariana snailfish. SOI/HADES/University of Aberdeen (Dr. Alan Jamieson) , CC BY-ND

Thanks to movies and nature videos, many people know that bizarre creatures live in the ocean’s deepest, darkest regions. They include viperfish with huge mouths and big teeth, and anglerfish, which have bioluminescent lures that make their...

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A century ago, progressives were the ones shouting 'fake news'

  • Written by Matthew Jordan, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers' elasticity with the truth.Library of Congress

Donald Trump may well be remembered as the president who cried “fake news.”

It started after the inauguration, when he used it to discredit stories about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. He hasn’t let up...

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