NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

The Conversation

Compete or suckle: Should troubled nuclear reactors be subsidized?

  • Written by Peter Bradford, Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School
imageWill nuclear subsidies stifle competition?www.shutterstock.com

Today we offer two expert perspectives on subsidizing nuclear power. Here’s the argument against providing economic support.

Since the 1950s, U.S. nuclear power has commanded immense taxpayer and customer subsidy based on promises of economic and environmental benefits. Many of...

Read more: Compete or suckle: Should troubled nuclear reactors be subsidized?

Is misuse of prescription painkillers among youth athletes leading to heroin use?

  • Written by Phil Veliz, Assistant Research Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan
imageHigh school football players are at high risk for injury.www.shutterstock.com

Over the past several years, the sports media have presented several stories of youth athletes who have become addicted to prescription painkillers and eventually turned to heroin. If fact, one of these reports in Sports Illustrated was ominously titled “How...

Read more: Is misuse of prescription painkillers among youth athletes leading to heroin use?

Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education

  • Written by Steven J. Friesen, Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies, University of Texas at Austin
imageWhat will be the impact of allowing guns on campus?Michael Tefft, CC BY-NC-ND

As of Aug. 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings in Texas.

It’s already had an impact on me as professor of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks to this law, I set foot in a federal court building...

Read more: Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education

Here's what coworkers think when you suck up to your boss

  • Written by Trevor Foulk, Doctoral Student, University of Florida
imageDo you really?Boss mug via www.shutterstock.com

Few employees would deny that ingratiation is ubiquitous in the workplace.

This behavior goes by many names – kissing up, sucking up, brown-nosing and ass-kissing. Indeed, the fact that there are so many names that describe this behavior suggests that it’s something that goes on all the time...

Read more: Here's what coworkers think when you suck up to your boss

Don't run (and don't laugh): The little-known history of racewalking

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
imageRacewalkers turn a corner – keeping one foot on the ground – during the women's 20-km event at the 2012 London Olympics.Maureen Barlin/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

While it was a huge sporting event in the United States in the years after the Civil War and was an early Olympic event, racewalking has been regarded for decades as something of a...

Read more: Don't run (and don't laugh): The little-known history of racewalking

Disasters and kids – how to help them recover

  • Written by Betty Lai, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Georgia State University

Louisiana’s historic floods have killed at least eight people. As many as 20,000 others have been rescued and thousands have been forced into shelters.

Disasters, whether natural, like hurricanes and floods, or man-made, like wars, can cause tremendous upheaval in people’s lives.

Imagine what being evacuated from your home – even...

Read more: Disasters and kids – how to help them recover

The political role of drone strikes in US grand strategy

  • Written by Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Policy, US Naval War College

How do you feel about drone strikes? Chances are you have an opinion – or at least a gut reaction.

Years of debate on the issue show that many Americans have reservations. People are concerned that drone strikes devalue non-American lives, dangerously expand executive power, and drive terrorism and anti-Americanism.

Yet do we actually knowmuch...

Read more: The political role of drone strikes in US grand strategy

Range anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover vast majority of daily U.S. driving needs

  • Written by Jessika E. Trancik, Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageDespite worries over the lower driving range of electric cars, most trips can be done with existing electric vehicles. unten44/flickr, CC BY

Electrifying transportation is one of the most promising ways to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, but so-called range anxiety – concern about being stranded with an uncharged...

Read more: Range anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover vast majority of daily U.S. driving needs

Not easy being blue: Fatal shootings, job stress make it hard to be a cop

  • Written by Ryan Wagoner, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida

Not many people in the United States can identify that their occupation includes “an element of personal danger.”

This, however, is a component of the job description for police officers across the country. It is specifically quoted from the “Duties and Responsibilities of Police Officers” in the Baton Rouge Police Department...

Read more: Not easy being blue: Fatal shootings, job stress make it hard to be a cop

More Articles ...

  1. Turkey's post-coup commitment to democracy offers chance to resolve Kurdish crisis
  2. Are U.S. politics beyond a joke?
  3. Parasitic flies, zombified ants, predator beetles – insect drama on Mexican coffee plantations
  4. Beyond borders: Why we need global action to protect migratory birds
  5. Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history
  6. So what if some female Olympians have high testosterone?
  7. Why get a liberal education? It is the life and breath of medicine
  8. Breaking the fourth wall in human-computer interaction: Really talking to each other
  9. Dusty plasma in the universe and in the laboratory
  10. Is the US electoral system really 'rigged'?
  11. How the IOC effectively maintains a gag order on nonsponsors of the Olympics
  12. As Rio bay waters show, we badly need innovation in treating human wastes
  13. Cotton farmers profit from simple steps to help pollinators
  14. Is the 'lesser of two evils' an ethical choice for voters?
  15. Setting robots in motion, quickly and efficiently
  16. How adult learners are not getting 21st-century skills
  17. Why you shouldn't want to always be happy
  18. Trump's and Clinton's economy plans: eight essential reads
  19. Most students borrow for college, but are they financially literate?
  20. Turkey's coup and the call to prayer: Sounds of violence meet Islamic devotionals
  21. When disaster-response apps fail
  22. Uber's Didi deal dispels Chinese 'El Dorado' myth once and for all
  23. What can a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil teach us about cancer?
  24. The flossing flap: Mind your dentist, and floss every night
  25. When doping wasn't considered cheating
  26. Why utilities have little incentive to plug leaking natural gas
  27. Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
  28. Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
  29. Putin, Obama and the battle for Aleppo
  30. Why save a computer virus?
  31. Remembering Michael Brown: Why black youth are branded as criminals
  32. Here's how competition makes peer review more unfair
  33. Trump's economics speech: seeking conservative cred and kissing babies
  34. How do Olympic athletes pay the electric bill?
  35. Goodbye to the barbershop?
  36. How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers
  37. Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'
  38. Fethullah Gülen: public intellectual or public enemy?
  39. Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you
  40. Brazil’s sewage woes reflect the growing global water quality crisis
  41. After fatality, autonomous car development may speed up
  42. I'm an OB-GYN treating women with Zika: This is what it's like
  43. Are soaring levels of income inequality making us a more polarized nation?
  44. Latinos face digital divide in health care
  45. What the Bourne films get right and wrong about amnesia
  46. Why it's hard for adults to learn a second language
  47. The talking dead: how personality drives smartphone addiction
  48. Build disaster-proof homes before storms strike, not afterward
  49. If cash is king, how can stores refuse to take your dollars?
  50. Geomythology: Can geologists relate ancient stories of great floods to real events?