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Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?

  • Written by Natalia Orendain, Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
Youth detention center in Atlanta. AP Photo/David Goldman

Children under 12 will no longer be treated as criminals in the state of California when they break the law, based on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1.

Before the law was passed, California had no minimum age for sending children to juvenile court – and that’s still true...

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Gen Z entrepreneurs view higher education as vital to their startups

  • Written by Eric J. Barron, President, Pennsylvania State University
Young entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to universities to help launch their businesses. GUGAI/www.shutterstock.com

Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions...

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Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you

  • Written by Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
Physicians often have reasons for prescribing a specific drug. Burlingham/Shutterstock.com

Few people are familiar with the term “step therapy,” but most Americans have health insurance policies that adopt it. Step therapy programs, also known as “fail first policies,” require patients to try less expensive treatments before...

Read more: Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

  • Written by Lewi Stone, Professor of Biomathematics, RMIT University
A concentration camp in Poland.AkzuzkA/shutterstock.com

Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in a historical sense, there is surprisingly little quantitative dataavailable, even on major critical events.

What’s more, this history is often told in figures too large to comprehend on the human scale. Large numbers...

Read more: Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

The new Congress and the history of governing by a house divided

  • Written by Brooks D. Simpson, Faculty Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication, Arizona State University
What will a divided Congress do over the next two years?Shutterstock

As the 116th Congress convenes this week, power has shifted from Republican control of both the Senate and House to a Republican Senate and a Democratic House, poised to battle each other under a Republican president who is under fire.

How can American political history help us...

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Why the 'Child of Krakatau' volcano is still dangerous – a volcanologist explains

  • Written by Thomas Giachetti, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon
An eruption of Anak Krakatau caused an underwater landslide and tsunami that struck Java and Sumatra.Nurul Hidayat/Bisnis Indonesia via AP

On Dec. 22 at 9:03 p.m. local time, a 64-hectare (158-acre) chunk of Anak Krakatau volcano, in Indonesia, slid into the ocean following an eruption. This landslide created a tsunami that struck coastal regions...

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An app that nudges people to eat their veggies only works when it's introduced with a human touch

  • Written by Susan H Evans, Research Scientist, University of Southern California
Eating right is good for families.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

Paula, a 59-year-old mother of two in Southern California, is getting out of a cooking rut with VeggieBook, a free mobile app we created that users can view in English or Spanish. It gives her customized recipes and food tips.

A menu of options on the VeggieBook app in English....

Read more: An app that nudges people to eat their veggies only works when it's introduced with a human touch

To feel happier, we have to resolve to the life we evolved to live

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
Exercise and activity are important parts of living the lives humans are meant to live from an evolutionary standpoint.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear responses that do not make sense now: The system is not meant to function in this safe context....

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Only 1 out of 36 newly elected female representatives in Congress is Republican – here's why it matters

  • Written by Malliga Och, Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Languages, Idaho State University
Carol Miller of West Virginia is the only newly elected Republican woman joining the 116th Congress.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

The 116th Congress will be the most diverse in U.S. history: 126 women will take office, including 43 women of color. Yet, as many have noted, this new diversity is confined to one side of the aisle.

The number of Republican...

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Clean up your cyber-hygiene – 6 changes to make in the new year

  • Written by Elissa Redmiles, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Maryland
What dangerous experiences lurk behind the use of this trackpad?Amy Walters/Shutterstock.com

Data breaches, widespread malware attacks and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018.

As technologies change, so does the advice security experts give for how to best stay safe. As 2019 begins, I’ve pulled...

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