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When did Che Guevara become CEO? The roots of the new corporate activism

  • Written by Jerry Davis, Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
imageHis example appears to be living on in corporate America these days.Che Guevera via www.shutterstock.com

Target recently staked out a position in the culture wars by announcing that it will build private bathrooms in all its locations, after earlier allowing transgender customers to use whichever room corresponds with their gender identity – b...

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Four quotes from the first Clinton-Trump debate, explained

  • Written by Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump faced off for their first debate at Hofstra University on Sept. 26. We asked a group of scholars to listen to the often heated exchange and react to just one quote related to their area of expertise. Here are those picks.

Emily Blanchard, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

“They&rsq...

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Will driving your own car become the socially unacceptable public health risk smoking is today?

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
imagePublic health double whammy?Julien, CC BY-NC-ND

In 2014, over 32,000 people were killed in car crashes in the U.S. In 2012, more than two million Americans visited the emergency room as a result of car crashes. And an estimated 94 percent of the crashes that cause these injuries and fatalities are attributable to human choice or error.

These are...

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Addicted to oil: US gasoline consumption is higher than ever

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
imageGas is cheap and Americans are back on in their cars and trucks.viriyincy/flickr, CC BY-SA

August was the biggest month ever for U.S. gasoline consumption. Americans used a staggering 9.7 million barrels per day. That’s more than a gallon per day for every U.S. man, woman and child.

The new peak comes as a surprise to many. In 2012, energy...

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Removing gender bias from algorithms

  • Written by James Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
imageCan machine learning help us find – and reduce – gender bias?Doctor/nurse via shutterstock.com

Machine learning is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Every time we talk to our smartphones, search for images or ask for restaurant recommendations, we are interacting with machine learning algorithms. They take as input large amounts of raw...

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Why a Zika vaccine is a long way off

  • Written by Robert Bednarczyk, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University
imageA vial of the Zika Virus Investigational DNA Vaccine from the NIH.NIH Image Gallery/Flickr , CC BY-NC

Recent news articles have highlighted positive findings in experimental Zika virus pre-clinical vaccine studies in monkeys and described the start of two Zika virus vaccine trialsin humans.

These stories have spurred hopes that a Zika virus vaccine...

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Trump, Clinton and the future of global democracy

  • Written by Brian Grodsky, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Donald Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladamir Putin puts the U.S. perilously close to abandoning its longstanding role as democracy’s greatest proponent. In the process, Trump is challenging the already threatened notion that democracy is the only legitimate system of rule.

When he and Hillary Clinton take the stage, in what...

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What's behind America's insistence on instilling grit in kids?

  • Written by Paige Gray, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College
imageSome say coddled kids need to be taught how to persevere through setbacks and disappointments.'Flower' via www.shutterstock.com

In the same way that actual grit accumulates in the cracks and crevices of the landscape, our cultural insistence on possessing grit has gradually come to the forefront of child-rearing and education reform.

In 2012, Paul...

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Will Colombia's peace deal get the people's vote?

  • Written by Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
imageImprisoned members of FARC at the camp where they will ratify a peace deal with the government.REUTERS/John Vizcaino

On Sept. 26, 2016, the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) are expected to sign a formal agreement to end 50 years of conflict.

More than eight million Colombians have been displaced from...

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How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter

  • Written by Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
imageA still image captured from a video from the Tulsa Police Department shows Terence Crutcher with his hands in the air. Tulsa Police Department Handout via REUTERS

Police killings of African-Americans on social media have become the visual hallmark of our time. This decade will be recalled through blurry cellphone and dash-cam videos of shootings....

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  3. Public universities are under threat – not just by outside reformers
  4. Can public transit and ride-share companies get along?
  5. How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria get into the environment?
  6. Is Philippine President Duterte a threat to the peace in Southeast Asia?
  7. Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know
  8. The NFL joins the data revolution in sports
  9. Refugees, migration addressed in first-time UN summit: What was accomplished?
  10. Scientist at work: Tracking melt water under the Greenland ice sheet
  11. Here's how to raise a child to be sympathetic
  12. Was the Fed right to delay raising interest rates? Two scholars react
  13. Police shootings and race in America: Five essential reads
  14. How corporate America can curb income inequality and make more money too
  15. Why isn’t science better? Look at career incentives
  16. Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage
  17. To curb North Korea's nuclear program, follow the money
  18. How the American online sex trade continues to thrive
  19. How can we get pharma companies to do more for global health? Try ranking them
  20. The rise of a conspiracy candidate
  21. How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint
  22. Why teen brains need later school start time
  23. Memo to next president: Here's how to avoid our history of energy policy mistakes
  24. Psychology expert: Why extremists use violence in their quest for significance
  25. Suffering from Fed rate hike anxiety? You're not the only one
  26. What is terrorism, and is it getting worse?
  27. 'Snowden,' a picture of the cybersecurity state
  28. Taking the GUESSwork out of video game satisfaction
  29. How Congress is failing on Zika
  30. How random is your randomness, and why does it matter?
  31. Should Wells Fargo execs responsible for bilking customers be forced to return their pay?
  32. Black Americans may be more resilient to stress than white Americans
  33. Why the Native American pipeline resistance in North Dakota is about climate justice
  34. As climate change alters the oceans, what will happen to Dungeness crabs?
  35. Clinton and Trump 2016: A battle to win over ambivalent voters
  36. Memetics and the science of going viral
  37. Why do the Paralympics get so little media attention in the United States?
  38. How a volcano in Indonesia led to the creation of Frankenstein
  39. What exactly does 'instantaneous' mean?
  40. Millions rely on cheap cloth masks that may provide little protection against deadly air pollution
  41. What do the Clinton charities actually do and where does their money go?
  42. With 10,000 Syrian refugees resettled in the US, are more on the way?
  43. Affording child care in America: Four essential reads
  44. Can headband sensors reduce underreported concussions in kids?
  45. The twilight of the mom and pop motel
  46. Considering ethics now before radically new brain technologies get away from us
  47. Science achievement gaps start early - in kindergarten
  48. Overcooling and overheating buildings emits as much carbon as four million cars
  49. Teaching the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
  50. Why you should dispense with antibacterial soaps