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Could Hulu and Google upend the TV industry in 2017?

  • Written by Amanda Lotz, Fellow at the Peabody Media Center and Professor of Communication Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan
imageTV networks are trying to win back cord-cutters.'Falling TV' via www.shutterstock.com

The transformation of U.S. television that began in 2015 – with more companies distributing television content over the internet – continued in 2016. Over the past year, however, the pace of change was slower and drew fewer headlines, even as more...

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Trump is not a European-style populist. That’s our problem

  • Written by Mabel Berezin, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
imageAmerica is, once again, exceptional.AP Photos/Christophe Ena and Evan Vucci

Two days after the U.S. presidential election, Marine Le Pen – the leader of the right wing French National Front – tweeted out congratulations to Donald Trump.

During a controversial BBC interview that aired a few days later, Le Pen summed up how she believes...

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How ancient wisdom can help managers give their employees better feedback

  • Written by Khatera Sahibzada, Adjunct Lecturer in Applied Psychology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageOld books know best.Old books via www.shutterstock.com

Giving feedback is unquestionably one of the most challenging tasks for any leader, as it can be painful to both the giver and receiver. It is nonetheless invaluable: Research has shown that employees recognize the importance of feedback – whether positive or negative – to their...

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A sacred light in the darkness: Winter solstice illuminations at Spanish missions

  • Written by Rubén G. Mendoza, Chair/Professor, Division of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay
imageThe 2007 midwinter solstice illumination of the main altar tabernacle of Old Mission San Juan Bautista, California.Rubén G. Mendoza/Ancient Editions, CC BY-ND

On Wednesday, Dec. 21, nations in the Northern Hemisphere will mark the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year. For thousands of years people have...

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High rates of medical student depression: What do they say about our health system?

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageMedical student. From www.shuttterstock.com

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that 27 percent of medical students around the world exhibit symptoms of depression and 11 percent have thought of taking their own lives. Equally troubling is the fact that, among students experiencing depressive symptoms, only...

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Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R's for the internet age

  • Written by Christopher Brinton, Visiting Researcher and Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
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This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on Amazon or take a break to watch a holiday movie on Netflix, we are making use of what might be called “the three R’s” of the Internet Age: rating, ranking and recommending.

Much like the traditional “three...

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Brick-and-mortar retailers should nix deep discounts to make most of jittery shopping season

  • Written by Sharmila C. Chatterjee, Academic Head, Enterprise Management Track; Senior Lecturer, Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

Brick-and-mortar retailers have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride this holiday season as early expectations of strong consumer spending were weighed down by the uncertainty prompted by the election.

That’s on top of the usual jitters about the slow demise of Black Friday and more consumer cash gravitating to online retail.

That has...

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Policy uncertainty discourages innovation and hurts the environment

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
imageUncertainty around government policy affects how businesses operate and whether they'll invest in R&D.Pixabay

Large-scale changes are anticipated for U.S. environmental policies heading into 2017. The new administration has promised a “comprehensive review of all federal regulations,” which include policies aimed at carbon dioxide...

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Obama administration's big science and tech innovation: Socially engaged policy

  • Written by Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
imageObama annually welcomed students to the White House with their Science Fair projects.AP Photo/Susan Walsh

When President Barack Obama gave his inaugural address in 2009, he promised to “restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” For the previous...

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Another reason to exercise every day during the holidays

  • Written by William B. Farquhar, Professor of Kinesiology & Applied Physiology, University of Delaware
imageExercising in a winter wonderland. www.shutterstock.com

Yes, of course we all know we should exercise every day during the holiday season to help counter the onslaught of excess calories that started on Thanksgiving and will mercifully end with a New Year’s toast.

We may even tire of hearing about exercise and weight from family, friends and...

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  7. How news sites' online comments helped build our hateful electorate
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  9. How one political outsider picked a cabinet
  10. Lesson one for Rick Perry: The Energy Department doesn't produce much energy
  11. What Trump Foundation's 'self-dealing' disclosure means for a conflicted president-elect
  12. Why sex gets better in older age
  13. The high cost of pursuing a dream to be a veterinarian
  14. Jesus Christ, businessman: From John Humphrey Noyes to Donald Trump
  15. Yellen's Fed faces a tricky rates dilemma in 2017 that may end up tripping up Trump
  16. Federal Reserve offers vote of confidence in US economy (so there's no reason to panic)
  17. Why 'thoughts and prayers' after mass shootings fall short
  18. Trump questionnaire recalls dark history of ideology-driven science
  19. Why the British love the National Health Service
  20. What Castro's death and Trump's election mean for Cuba's economic awakening
  21. How your college friendships help you – or don't
  22. What does research say about how to effectively communicate about science?
  23. Trump and Tillerson face the Middle East
  24. 1990s Oregon campaigns anticipated Trump's politics of division
  25. The emerging science of 'bromosexual' friendships
  26. The US environmental movement needs a new message
  27. 'Even though I am a girl...': John Glenn's fan mail and sexism in the early space program
  28. Cybersecurity's next phase: Cyber-deterrence
  29. Why kids who have trouble behaving in preschool fall behind
  30. Trump trolls, Pirate Parties and the Italian Five Star Movement: The internet meets politics
  31. Normalizing fascists
  32. Break out of your echo chamber: Technology arranges lunch with someone new
  33. Why OPEC's gambit to raise oil prices might not work
  34. How learning a new language improves tolerance
  35. Celebrity voices are powerful, but does the First Amendment let them say anything they want?
  36. Trump, carbon neutrality and the next phase of business sustainability
  37. When nausea from pregnancy is life-threatening
  38. The Victorian origins of the Mannequin Challenge
  39. The MDMA being used to treat trauma is different from the street drug Ecstasy
  40. The potential costs of Tom Price as HHS secretary
  41. In Puerto Rico, environmental injustice and racism inflame protests over coal ash
  42. Will Trump victory make Angela Merkel leader of the free world?
  43. How the Fed joined the fight against climate change
  44. Catching lightning in a fossil – and calculating how much energy a strike contains
  45. Supreme Court: Design patents are worth less, but we won't tell you how much
  46. Will a weakened EPA set environmental justice back?
  47. Why do we fall for fake news?
  48. How the TPP's demise threatens US national security and Pax Americana
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