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A gambling expert weighs in: what makes daily fantasy sports so alluring – and dangerous – for young men?

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imageWagering on players can add a layer of excitement to a game that's already full of drama.Dominick Reuter/Reuters

Two facts can’t be disputed: Americans love their sports, and they love to gamble.

According to Gallup, nearly 60% of Americans call themselves sports fans, while ESPN broadcasts continuous sports coverage to almost 100 million homes...

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Will 'sew-bots' stitch up a future for American Apparel?

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imageGarment workers sew t-shirts at the American Apparel factory in downtown Los Angeles.Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Earlier this month, clothing manufacturer and retailer American Apparel, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

American Apparel is a vertically integrated company, which means that it designs, manufactures, sells to other retailers and sells...

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Women preferred for STEM professorships – as long as they’re equal to or better than male candidates

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imageHow much do hiring decisions in academia factor in the gender of the applicant?Files image via www.shutterstock.com.

Since the 1980s, there has been robust real-world evidence of a preference for hiring women for entry-level professorships in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM). This evidence comes from hiring audits at universities....

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Can it get more absurd? Now music teachers are being tested based on math and reading scores

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imageMusic teachers are being evaluated on subjects they do not teach.Author provided

Ms Matthews was apprehensive as she opened the envelope containing her evaluation report. She had worked hard over the summer, taking graduate classes to learn some new teaching strategies to help her students improve their music listening and reading skills. She had...

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Canadian election: Scholars on what the rest of the world needs to know

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imageLiberal Party leader Justin Trudeau greets supporters. Jim Young/REUTERS

Canadians voted yesterday to toss out Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party in favor of newcomer Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. The change in leadership in Canada, the US’s biggest trading partner, has important implications in the US. We asked three scholars to...

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Can we expand solar power dramatically without damaging protected lands?

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imageRenewable energy developers choose sunny locations, which can be near protected lands. jsmoorman/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

California has seen a rapid expansion of large-scale renewable energy development in the past decade, part of a state policy to lower pollution from power generation. Yet, our current power plant siting practices could dramatically...

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Ruling shows Europe still vexed over NSA spying, leaving US companies in legal limbo

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imageThe high court's ruling has Google and other tech companies rushing to build data centers in Europe.Reuters

Earlier this month, US companies operating in Europe got some unwelcome news: the Data Transfer Pact between the European Union and the United States, more commonly known as “Safe Harbor,” had been ruled invalid.

For over 15 years,...

Read more: Ruling shows Europe still vexed over NSA spying, leaving US companies in legal limbo

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