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Should Wells Fargo execs responsible for bilking customers be forced to return their pay?

  • Written by Lee Reiners, Director of Global Financial Markets Center, Duke University
imageIn Wells Fargo's case, a discussion often wasn't required. Wells Fargo via www.shutterstock.com

Having spent five years supervising large financial institutions on Wall Street, I am rarely surprised by the latest news of banks behaving badly.

But even the most hardened cynics, such as myself, were taken aback by the recent announcement that Wells...

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Black Americans may be more resilient to stress than white Americans

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Research Investigator of Psychiatry, University of Michigan

White Americans live on average3.6 years longer than black Americans. If you look only at men, the difference becomes 4.4 years.

As I found in a recent study, the main reason behind this disparity is that black Americans are at higher risk of most chronic medical conditions, such as hypertension, obesity, heart disease, stroke and cancer than other...

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Why the Native American pipeline resistance in North Dakota is about climate justice

  • Written by Kyle Powys Whyte, Timnick Chair in the Humanities / Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, Michigan State University

Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the crossing of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers in the ancestral territories of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Using nonviolent means, their goal is to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that would connect production fields in North...

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As climate change alters the oceans, what will happen to Dungeness crabs?

  • Written by Paul McElhany, Research Ecologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
imageLive crab at a Seattle marketShutterstock.com

Many travelers visit the Pacific Northwest to eat the region’s famous seafood – particularly Dungeness crabs, which are popular in crab cakes or wrestled straight out of the shell. Locals also love catching and eating the feisty creatures. One of my favorite ways to spend an afternoon is...

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Clinton and Trump 2016: A battle to win over ambivalent voters

  • Written by Judd Thornton, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University

This presidential campaign has two historically unpopular candidates. Both nominees are viewed unfavorably by more than 50 percent of the electorate.

Given their relative unpopularity, it seems reasonable to wonder if many voters possess mixed feelings about their party’s nominee this year. In other words, many voters may be experiencing...

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Memetics and the science of going viral

  • Written by Shontavia Johnson, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Drake University

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WHO-WHO-WHO-WHO-WHO? WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WHO-WHO-WHO-WHO-WHO?

If you’ve ever heard the Baha Men’s 2000 hit “Who Let the Dogs Out,” you probably have also experienced its somewhat-annoying-but-very-catchy hook being stuck in your head for several hours.

The official video for ‘Who Let the Dogs...

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Why do the Paralympics get so little media attention in the United States?

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University

Have you heard about the 1500-meter world championship run in which each of the top four competitors crossed the line faster than the winner of the Olympic men’s final?

Or about the guy who is the most accurate distance shooter in the history of archery?

Or the woman who may win seven medals?

If the answer is no to any or all of these...

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How a volcano in Indonesia led to the creation of Frankenstein

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageFrankensteinfrankie stickers/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

As the summer of 2016 draws to a close, we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most famous novels in the English language, a work that also recounts the creation of perhaps the most monstrous character in English literature. The story of how it came to be is no less extraordinary...

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Millions rely on cheap cloth masks that may provide little protection against deadly air pollution

  • Written by Richard E. Peltier, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Anyone who has stepped off an airplane in one of the major cities of the developing world has encountered profound and noxious air pollution. In New Delhi, Jakarta, Accra, Kathmandu and many other cities, diesel exhaust and burning garbage foul the air. The most serious concern is particulate matter (PM) – microscopic particles, much...

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