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'Tiger King' and America's captive tiger problem

  • Written by Allison Skidmore, PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Many breeders say they're stewards of conservation, but no captive tiger has ever been released into the wild.AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

Editor’s note: Netflix’s new docuseries “Tiger King” takes viewers into the strange world of big cat collectors. Featuring eccentric characters with names like Joe Exotic and Bhagavan...

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Government secrecy is growing during the coronavirus pandemic

  • Written by David Cuillier, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, University of Arizona
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration said it would reject all freedom of information requests -- and then reversed itself after public outcry.AP/Teresa Crawford

Students at the University of Florida who want to know how they are being protected from the COVID-19 pandemic can’t find out.

The university is hiding its emergency...

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Coronavirus case counts are going to go up – but that doesn't mean social distancing is a bust

  • Written by Abram Wagner, Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
Empty parking lots show social distancing’s costs. It could take time to see its benefits.Pete Starman/The Image Bank via Getty Images

The last few weeks have brought previously unimaginable changes to the lives of people throughout the United States. Americans everywhere are waking up to a new reality in which they can’t go to work or...

Read more: Coronavirus case counts are going to go up – but that doesn't mean social distancing is a bust

Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a safer new pigment option

  • Written by Erick Leite Bastos, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Universidade de São Paulo
Through the wonders of chemistry, molecules can be rearranged to completely transform color.Erick Leite Bastos, CC BY-SA

What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences worldwide by a large margin.

No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color...

Read more: Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a safer new pigment option

Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment option

  • Written by Erick Leite Bastos, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Universidade de São Paulo
Through the wonders of chemistry, molecules can be rearranged to completely transform color.Erick Leite Bastos, CC BY-SA

What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences worldwide by a large margin.

No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color...

Read more: Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment option

How high will unemployment go? During the Great Depression, 1 in 4 Americans were out of work

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Unemployed people wait outside a government office in NYC in 1933. AP PhotoCC BY-ND

The U.S. unemployment rate climbed from a half-century low of 3.5% to 4.4% in March – and is expected to go a lot higher.

But could the rate, as some predict, surpass the 25% joblessness the U.S. experienced at the peak of the Great Depression?

As a macroeconom...

Read more: How high will unemployment go? During the Great Depression, 1 in 4 Americans were out of work

China's big donors are pitching in to deal with the new coronavirus – and not just in their own country

  • Written by Charles Sellen, Global Philanthropy Fellow, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, left, is funding African entrepreneurs through his foundation.VCG/VCG via Getty Images

Less than a month after China confirmed the emergence of what soon became the new coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese e-commerce giantAlibaba pledged US$144 million in medical supplies for Hubei province and its capital city Wuhan.

Soon...

Read more: China's big donors are pitching in to deal with the new coronavirus – and not just in their own...

7 things public schools do besides teach kids academic basics

  • Written by Samantha Keppler, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Some schools have staff on hand to encourage students to get active during recess. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

With schools closed due to COVID-19, communities are scrambling to provide students with meals and supplies and meet other needs. For education researcher Samantha Keppler, these closures offer a chance to reflect...

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Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats

  • Written by Dana Hawley, Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Caribbean spiny lobsters normally live in groups, but healthy lobsters avoid members of their own species if they are infected with a deadly virus. Humberto Ramirez/Getty Images

Social distancing to combat COVID-19 is profoundly impacting society, leaving many people wondering whether it will actually work. As disease ecologists, we know that...

Read more: Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats

How coronavirus has ended centuries of hands-on campaigning for politicians

  • Written by Andrew Kettler, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Bill Clinton displaying how not to social distance while campaigning in 1992.Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Opening a rally for Bernie Sanders in early March, Rep. Ilhan Omar turned to the audience and asked people to hold hands with those next to them in a show of solidarity.

But that was before the coronavirus...

Read more: How coronavirus has ended centuries of hands-on campaigning for politicians

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  3. How coronavirus threatens the seasonal farmworkers at the heart of the American food supply
  4. A small trial finds that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating coronavirus
  5. How the coronavirus recession puts service workers at risk
  6. Governors take charge of response to the coronavirus
  7. Insider trading by members of Congress may be difficult to prove
  8. Coronavirus: Strategic National Stockpile was ready, but not for this
  9. Why undocumented immigrants still fear the 2020 census
  10. What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly
  11. Express gratitude – not because you will benefit from it, but others might
  12. 5 ways that the coronavirus will change college admissions this fall
  13. Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark relief
  14. Coronavirus cases are growing exponentially – here's what that means
  15. There are many COVID-19 tests in the US – how are they being regulated?
  16. Coronavirus: Telemedicine is great when you want to stay distant from your doctor, but older laws are standing in the way
  17. Antibodies in the blood of COVID-19 survivors know how to beat coronavirus – and researchers are already testing new treatments that harness them
  18. Delaying 'nonessential' abortions during coronavirus crisis endangers women's health and financial future
  19. Should we wear masks or not? An expert sorts through the confusion
  20. 7 estrategias basadas en la ciencia para afrontar la ansiedad del coronavirus
  21. 5 Buddhist teachings that can help you deal with coronavirus anxiety
  22. When confronting the coronavirus, tough isn't enough
  23. Take it from Pluto the Schnauzer: Comedy will help us through the coronavirus crisis
  24. Porch piracy: Here's what we learned after watching hours of YouTube videos showing packages being pilfered from homes
  25. 4 weird things that happen when you videoconference
  26. 'We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days'
  27. COVID-19 could lead to an epidemic of clinical depression
  28. COVID-19 could lead to an epidemic of clinical depression, and the health care system isn't ready for that, either
  29. The US census has its flaws – but so has every attempt to count people throughout history
  30. The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it
  31. COVID-19 could shrink the earnings of 2020 graduates for years to come
  32. COVID-19 will slow the global shift to renewable energy, but can't stop it
  33. How to protect elections amid the coronavirus pandemic
  34. Video: The fashionable history of social distancing
  35. 4 ways companies can support their workers during the coronavirus crisis
  36. These groups are among the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic
  37. Breaking contracts over coronavirus: Can you argue it’s an ‘act of God’?
  38. Abused children and family, people with mental illness are all especially vulnerable with stay-at-home orders from coronavirus
  39. 2 reasons – and 1 disease – that make peace in Syria so difficult
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  41. Coronavirus: social distancing may be a rare chance to get our sleep patterns closer to what nature intended
  42. How Germany is managing its coronavirus epidemic, and reacting with disdain to Trump's policies
  43. How prisoners, soldiers and Mormon missionaries make the census more complicated
  44. National Guard joins the coronavirus response – 3 questions answered
  45. 4 tips for staying connected during coronavirus, from migrants who live far from family
  46. What early Christian communities tell us about giving financial aid at a time of crises
  47. Feeling overwhelmed? Approach coronavirus as a challenge to be met, not a threat to be feared
  48. Fighting boredom with banjos and Russian grammar – tips from polar explorers for surviving months of isolation
  49. Social media companies are taking steps to tamp down coronavirus misinformation – but they can do more
  50. Pregnant in a time of coronavirus - the changing risks and what you need to know