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Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
imageMarie Curie in one of her mobile X-ray units in October 1917.Eve Curie

Ask people to name the most famous historical woman of science and their answer will likely be: Madame Marie Curie. Push further and ask what she did, and they might say it was something related to radioactivity. (She actually discovered the radioisotopes radium and polonium.)...

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Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California's legacy

  • Written by Gary Griggs, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
imageBig Sur coastline.Ashley Spratt, USFWS, CC BY

The California coast is an edge. It’s the place where 1,100 miles of shoreline meets the largest ocean on the planet. Many different forces collide there, and a lot of exciting things happen. The coast is a geological edge, zippered to North America by 800 miles of the San Andreas Fault and...

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Gentrification? Bring it

  • Written by Jonathan Wynn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageCash-strapped Hartford is one of a number American cities that have missed out on the nation's urban renaissance.Jessica Hill/AP Photo

In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood staged protests outside a trendy new coffee shop called Weird Wave Coffee, holding signs that read...

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In Latin America, is there a link between abortion rights and democracy?

  • Written by Larissa Arroyo Navarrete, Professor of Human Rights, University of Costa Rica

Three-quarters of all abortions in Latin America are performed illegally, putting the woman’s life at risk. Together with Africa and Asia, the region accounts for many of the 17.1 million unsafe abortions performed globally each year, according to a new report in The Lancet, published jointly with the Guttmacher Institute, a research and...

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Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them

  • Written by Mark Partridge, Professor of Rural-Urban Policy, The Ohio State University
imageTVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee, site of a 1.1 billion gallon spill of coal ash slurry in 2008, photographed on March 28, 2012.Appalachian Voices, CC BY

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to bring jobs and prosperity to communities that rely on the coal...

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What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth

  • Written by Arlene Weismantel, Senior Associate Director, Libraries, Michigan State University
imageThe Girard, Kansas Carnegie library.National Park Service

The same ethos that turned Andrew Carnegie into one of the biggest philanthropists of all time made him a fervent proponent of taxing big inheritances. As the steel magnate wrote in his seminal 1899 essay, The Gospel of Wealth:

“Of all forms of taxation this seems the wisest. By taxing...

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How the stoicism of Roman philosophers can help us deal with depression

  • Written by Robert S. Colter, Associate Lecturer, Philosophy, University of Wyoming
imageThe statue of Marcus Aurelius Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome.Jeff, CC BY-NC-ND

Depression is on the rise. A study conducted by the World Health Organization found an increase of 20 percent in depression cases within just a decade.

I work on a university campus. One might expect such a place to feel vibrant and energetic, but lately there seems to...

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Nobody reads privacy policies – here's how to fix that

  • Written by Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
imageMost people don't know what they're agreeing to.Micolas/Shutterstock.com

Have you ever actually read an app’s privacy policy before clicking to accept the terms? What about reading the privacy policy for the website you visit most often? Have you ever read or even noticed the privacy policy posted in your doctor’s waiting room or your...

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Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them

  • Written by Veronica I. Johnson, Associate Professor, Counselor Education, The University of Montana
imageTalking to your kids about sex is important, even if they don't welcome the conversation. SpeedKingz/Shutterstock.com

Parents may be uncomfortable initiating “the sex talk,” but whether they want to or not, parents teach their kids about sex and sexuality. Kids learn early what a sexual relationship looks like.

Broaching the topic of...

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How the US government created and coddled the gun industry

  • Written by Brian DeLay, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
imageA U.S. soldier fires a Colt M16 in Vietnam in 1967.U.S. Army

After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more gun control to help prevent mass shootings and the routine violence ravaging U.S. neighborhoods.

But besides a rare consensus on restricting the availability of so-called bump...

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  5. Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'
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  7. The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
  8. How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
  9. Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
  10. Bundy trial embodies everything dividing America today
  11. Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
  12. Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
  13. Blade Runner's chillingly prescient vision of the future
  14. Knowing the signs of Lewy body dementia may help speed diagnosis
  15. Should Uncle Sam 'send in the Marines' after hurricanes?
  16. Catalonia's referendum unmasks authoritarianism in Spain
  17. The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
  18. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
  19. How 'Germany's Hugh Hefner' created an entirely different sort of sex empire
  20. Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
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  22. The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world
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  25. Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
  26. How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?
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  28. Scientists join forces to save Puerto Rico's 'Monkey Island'
  29. Governments, car companies must resolve their competing goals for self-driving cars
  30. How dangerous people get their weapons in America
  31. Nobel winners identified molecular ‘cogs’ in the biological clocks that control our circadian rhythms
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  33. How to talk to your kids about opioids
  34. Don't take opioids off the market - make it harder to abuse them
  35. Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
  36. Three steps Congress could take to help resolve the net neutrality debate – without legislating a fix
  37. How investing in public health could cure many health care problems
  38. American women died in Vietnam, too
  39. What Gandhi can teach today's protesters
  40. The difference between black football fans and white football fans
  41. The real reason some people become addicted to drugs
  42. Merkel's challenge: Governing Germany in an age of rising nationalism
  43. Why Pope Francis is reviving a long tradition of local variations in Catholic services
  44. Is free speech alive and well? 5 essential reads
  45. Why the FCC's proposed internet rules may spell trouble ahead
  46. Worries about spreading Earth microbes shouldn't slow search for life on Mars
  47. Tax 'reform' for the rich: Trump's plan abandons his working-class supporters
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