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The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding

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imageA detail from Stanisław Wyspiański's "Macierzynstwo" (1905).Wikimedia Commons

Breastfeeding in public is the controversy that never seems to die.

A recent YouTube video that went viral shows a woman breastfeeding in public. One passerby tells her “not to do that in public”; another that being in “a decent place”...

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Starting college? Here's why you should think about a gap year

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imageWhat's the evidence on a gap year?City Year, CC BY-NC-ND

Malia Obama recently announced that she will take a gap year before attending Harvard University. Historically, American high school graduates have been less likely to take a gap year as compared to their European and Australian counterparts.

A study of “The American Freshman,” for...

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Restoring the Everglades will benefit both humans and nature

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imageFlock of ibis, Everglades National Park.Linda Friar, National Park Service/Flickr

Everglades National Park (ENP) is our only national wetland park, and one of the largest aquascapes in the world. Perhaps more than any other U.S. national park, ENP’s treasures are hard to defend. Lying at the southern end of an immense watershed the size of...

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Does billionaire-funded lawsuit against Gawker create playbook for punishing press?

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Word last week that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker added a wrinkle to a case already featuring colorful characters and a US$140 million jury verdict.

At a sensational and personal level, the story highlights the animus between PayPal co-founder Thiel and...

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The trillion dollar question Obama left unanswered in Hiroshima

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As it seeks to modernize its nuclear arsenal, the United States faces a big choice, one which Barack Obama failed to mention during his moving Hiroshima speech on May 27.

Should we spend a trillion dollars to replace each of our thousands of nuclear warheads with a more sophisticated substitute attached to a more lethal delivery system? Or should...

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Facial expressions are key to first impressions. What does that mean for people with facial paralysis?

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imageFacial expressions may be a universal language. Where does that leave people with facial paralysis?Icerko Lýdia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Facial expressions are important parts of how we communicate and how we develop impressions of the people around us. In “The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals,” Charles Darwin...

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Iran's Rouhani may now control parliament, but do his economic reforms stand a chance?

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his policies are set to get a boost this week after voters elected a parliament that favors reform.

While Rouhani’s reformists didn’t win a majority of seats, it appears likely that the “moderate” independents also elected will side with his faction, giving the reformists an effective...

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Recreating forests of the past isn't enough to fix our wildfire problems

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imageWildfires are getting bigger and more costly. Can we return them to a less dangerous state by looking to the past? U.S. Department of Agriculture, CC BY

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night…

-William Blake

There is general agreement that America’s landscapes, certainly its wildlands, are out of whack with their fires....

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