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Where the parties stand on environmental regulation: Six essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Editor, Environment and Energy, The Conversation
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Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to environmental regulation and the presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have taken starkly opposing positions on environmental regulation. During their second debate on Oct. 9, Trump stated,

“The EPA is so restrictive that they...

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Getting to yes in Colombia: What it would take to reintegrate the FARC

  • Written by Kimberly Theidon, Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, Tufts University

The Nobel Committee has awarded Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize.

His key accomplishment was the Sept. 26 signing of the Colombian peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, as known as FARC. The signing marked the formal end of 52 years of civil war. In the words of Humberto...

Read more: Getting to yes in Colombia: What it would take to reintegrate the FARC

Love it or hate it, Obamacare has expanded coverage for millions

  • Written by Jim Marton, Associate Professor, Economics, Georgia State University

The most significant pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” were implemented in 2014. These include expanding Medicaid in many states, the establishment of insurance exchanges with subsidized coverage and the individual mandate, which requires individuals to purchase health insurance.

One aim of the law was to expand...

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After our universe's cosmic dawn, what happened to all its original hydrogen?

  • Written by Aaron Parsons, Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
imageLight from the universe's first galaxies destroyed the hydrogen atoms that formed during the Big Bang.NASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), and the UDF 2012 Team, CC BY

When our universe first blasted into existence with a Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, it looked much different than it does today. Instead of planets, stars and galaxies, there was...

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Beyond Olympic gold: US kids getting lapped in aerobic fitness

  • Written by Grant Tomkinson, Associate Professor, University of North Dakota

While the U.S. brings home more Olympic gold than any other country, many, if not most, American school kids wouldn’t even bring home a tin, if there were such a low-ranking medal.

Recently, colleagues and I set out to see how the fitness of American kids stacked up relative to other countries. Our findings were surprising. Not only did the...

Read more: Beyond Olympic gold: US kids getting lapped in aerobic fitness

Nobel prize-winning autophagy research laid groundwork for potential Parkinson's treatment

  • Written by Charbel Moussa, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University
imageAutophagy lets neurons clear out harmful proteins. UCI Research via Flickr, CC BY-NC

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 3 “for his discoveries of the mechanisms for autophagy”, which is how cells “recycle” their contents. Autophagy is a quality control mechanism that destroys...

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Why is taking photographs banned in many museums and historic places?

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University

Have you ever pulled out your camera or phone in a museum or historic place and suddenly found a staff person telling you “no photographs”?

I was in London recently and it happened repeatedly in places like Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and Parliament.

The no-photos policy is not limited to just England but is a worldwide...

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Columbus Day: Black legend meets White City

  • Written by William Francis Keegan, Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida
imageAgricultural Building at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893.University of Maryland Digital Collections

The story of Christopher Columbus, as with all legends, involves a series of great successes and horrible failures.

Columbus’s current favorability rating hovers somewhere close to those of Hillary Clinton and...

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What if nature, like corporations, had the rights and protections of a person?

  • Written by Chip Colwell, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
imageThe forest around Lake Waikaremoana in New Zealand has been given legal status of a person because of its cultural significance.Paul Nelhams/flickr, CC BY-SA

In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has solidified the concept of corporate personhood. Following rulings in such cases as Hobby Lobby and Citizens United, U.S. law has established that...

Read more: What if nature, like corporations, had the rights and protections of a person?

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