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Mourning death by suicide: How you can provide support for the bereaved

  • Written by Lekeisha Sumner, Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Bio-behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Knowing what to say to someone who has lost a loved one by suicide can help survivors.Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com

Recent headlines of celebrities and their loved ones who have died by suicide – Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, and Tina Turner’s son Craig Turner – have made this leading cause of death a topic of...

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Rock 'n' roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that can spread through a food web

  • Written by Brandon Barton, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
Not interested in your new favorite band.TJ Gehling, CC BY-NC-ND

Despite being one of the best-selling albums of all time, ideology from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album has gone unchallenged for nearly 40 years. The album’s closing track posited a testable hypothesis, asserting with rock-star confidence that “Rock...

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To improve digital well-being, put your phone down and talk to people

  • Written by Kostadin Kushlev, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
They're missing out.puhhha/Shutterstock.com

Apple and Google recently announced features in their forthcoming mobile operating systems designed to “reduce interruptions and manage screen time.” Android and iOS users alike will soon be able to guard their sleep against digital temptations, easily activate “Do Not Disturb”...

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Supreme Court polarization is not inevitable — just look at Europe

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

United States President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. His choice solidifies a conservative majority on the nation’s nine-member highest court.

Trump’s conservative bench could overrule Roe v. Wade, eliminating women’s constitutional right to abortion. It also...

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Inside the sacred danger of Thailand's caves

  • Written by Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Family members pray in front of a Buddhist statue near the cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped in northern Thailand.AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

For the past two weeks, a global audience has been transfixed by the drama of 12 boys and their coach trapped within Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave deep underneath the mountains that form the...

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A rare instance when preventative screening is worth the dollar cost

  • Written by David Hutton, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy , University of Michigan
A technician holds a blood sample that tested positive for the hepatitis B virus.Jarun Ontakrai/shutterstock.com

Very few people know about hepatitis B, the so-called silent killer, and the billions of dollars it costs the U.S. health care system. The hepatitis B virus can cause chronic infection that is usually asymptomatic for decades until it...

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Por qué el censo de 2020 no debería preguntar sobre tu ciudadanía

  • Written by Jennifer Van Hook, Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Ceremonia de naturalización en diciembre de 2015. AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File

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“¿Esta persona es ciudadano de los Estados Unidos?”

El 26 de marzo, el Departamento de Comercio de los Estados Unidos anunció que se agregaría una pregunta sobre ciudadanía al censo de 2020. Esta pregunta, que...

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Why is the Strait of Hormuz important?

  • Written by Rockford Weitz, Professor of Practice and Director of the Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, Tufts University
Strait of HormuzWikipedia

Global shipping is constrained by geography.

Massive oil tankers and cargo ships – carrying over 90 percent of global trade flows by weight – converge in narrow straits. The result: The world’s key shipping lanes are often crowded.

As a researcher who has focused on strategic maritime chokepoints for over...

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Silicon Valley's cautionary tale shows what can go wrong when charities get obsessed with growth

  • Written by Brian Mittendorf, Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting and Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems (MIS), The Ohio State University
Charities should not make amassing more and more money their top priority.Shutterstock.com/Stokkete

An obsession with growth. A failure to intervene when an executive allegedly bullies and sexually harasses staff. High employee turnover and burnout.

This is not the plot of one of those movies dramatizing Wall Street greed. It’s actually a...

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7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?

  • Written by Andrew D. Hwang, Associate Professor of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross
Slums in Caracas, Venezuela.Wikimedia

Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history. This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals.

Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we do nothing to manage future population...

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  3. Alcohol's health benefits hard to prove, but harms are easy to document
  4. Is the Supreme Court's legitimacy undermined in a polarized age?
  5. What next for the EPA? Here's what Reagan did
  6. We estimate China only makes $8.46 from an iPhone – and that's why Trump's trade war is futile
  7. Poland's judicial purge another step toward authoritarian democracy
  8. Support for refugees increases when refugees participate in integration programs
  9. Sex and gender diversity is growing across the US
  10. The monster festival: A pilgrimage to small town America
  11. A novel 'smart' antibiotic may target most common bacterial infection contracted in US hospitals
  12. Pre-existing conditions: The age group most vulnerable if coverage goes away
  13. What the Nazis driving people from homes taught philosopher Hannah Arendt about the rights of refugees
  14. Coping with heat waves: 5 essential reads
  15. Trade rules are deeply flawed but Trump’s tariff fixation is hurting America and the rest of the world
  16. Milking cows for data – not just dairy products
  17. Shelter design can help people recover from homelessness
  18. Busting 3 common myths about homelessness
  19. How do Americans really feel about interracial couples?
  20. Why it doesn't matter if a Harley is 'made in America'
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  22. Is gang activity on the rise? A movement to abolish gang databases makes it hard to tell
  23. Anti-slavery heroes Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell deserve pardons too, President Trump
  24. How Roe v. Wade changed the lives of American women
  25. When caring hurts: Attrition among social workers, medicine's unsung heroes
  26. Local, county and state governments are suing oil companies over climate change
  27. How ride-hailing could improve public transportation instead of undercutting it
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  37. State takeovers of schools are about political power, not school improvement
  38. How to build a better, safer, more welcoming hospital
  39. What is the WTO?
  40. Justice Kennedy's LGBTQ legacy may be short-lived
  41. Feasting rituals – and the cooperation they require – are a crucial step toward human civilization
  42. Will Trump's Supreme Court justices show independence from him?
  43. Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers
  44. Americans are not as divided or conservative on immigration as you might think
  45. Fewer Americans are giving money to charity but total donations are at record levels anyway
  46. Mexico elects a leftist president who welcomes migrants
  47. 3 reasons why the US is vulnerable to big disasters
  48. Painter Jon McNaughton's novel portrayal of modern conservatism
  49. When some police feel misunderstood, it can impact their performance
  50. The US natural gas industry is leaking way more methane than previously thought. Here’s why that matters