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Feed a virus but starve bacteria? When you're sick, it may really matter

  • Written by Ruslan Medzhitov, Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University
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Think back to the last time you came down with a cold and what it felt like to be sick. For most people, the feeling of sickness is a set of psychological and behavioral changes including fatigue, lethargy, changes in appetite, changes in sleep patterns and a desire to be away from others.

Of course, none of these...

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Why America needs the virtues of humility

  • Written by Christopher Beem, Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Pennsylvania State University

In a recent speech full of allusions to Bible verses and Christian hymns at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Hillary Clinton focused on Christian humility. She acknowledged that

“Humility is not something you hear much about in politics.”

But, she said, it should be. Those who truly understand “the awesomeness of...

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Group work gets kids more engaged in STEM

  • Written by Allison Master, Research Scientist, University of Washington
imageWhat can be done to get more kids interested in STEM?Child image via www.shutterstock.com

Shortage of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals has been an important concern in the United States. It is estimated that over the next 10 years, the nation could face a shortage of one million STEM workers.

So, what can we do to get...

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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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  10. Is Philippine President Duterte a threat to the peace in Southeast Asia?
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  17. Police shootings and race in America: Five essential reads
  18. How corporate America can curb income inequality and make more money too
  19. Why isn’t science better? Look at career incentives
  20. Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage
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  41. Why do the Paralympics get so little media attention in the United States?
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  46. With 10,000 Syrian refugees resettled in the US, are more on the way?
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