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Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains

  • Written by Matthew D. Moran, Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
A young bull bison grazes on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.Matthew Moran, CC BY-ND

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean.

This is the Flint Hills. For over a century it has been...

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How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement

  • Written by Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
Salvadoran immigrants were pivotal in the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles in 1990. It earned wage increases for custodial staff nationwide and inspired today's $15 minimum wage campaign. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, two views predominate about Central American migrants:...

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Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health

  • Written by Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean, cardiologist, professor, Tufts University
Policymakers are responding to a growing recognition of food as medicine.udra11/Shutterstock.com

In this new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions about healthier eating. In 2019, could U.S. government leaders further resolve to improve healthier eating as well, joining public health experts in seeing that food is medicine?

In 2018,...

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What’s an index fund?

  • Written by Jordan Schoenfeld, Accounting Faculty, Georgetown University

The creation of the index fund in 1975 revolutionized investing, lowering costs for millions of ordinary investors.

Their inventor John Bogle died on Jan. 16 at the age of 89.

Bogle took a complex universe of thousands of stocks and reduced it to a simple, singular entity, the index fund. Through index funds, investing in the stock market became...

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Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?

  • Written by Jason A. Delborne, Associate Professor of Science, Policy, and Society in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
Ash tree killed by the invasive emerald ash borer.K Steve Cope

Compared to gene-edited babies in China and ambitious projects to rescue woolly mammoths from extinction, biotech trees might sound pretty tame.

But releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology. Even...

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Data breaches are inevitable – here's how to protect yourself anyway

  • Written by W. David Salisbury, Sherman-Standard Register Professor of Cybersecurity Management, Director Center for Cybersecurity & Data Intelligence, University of Dayton
Prepare to protect yourself.FXQuadro/Shutterstock.com

It’s tempting to give up on data security altogether, with all the billions of pieces of personal data – Social Security numbers, credit cards, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords and much morebreached and stolen in recent years. But that’s not realistic –...

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Is winter miserable for wildlife?

  • Written by Bridget B. Baker, Clinical Veterinarian and Deputy Director of the Warrior Aquatic, Translational, and Environmental Research (WATER) Lab, Wayne State University
Yes, I am a bit chilly, why?tim elliott/Shutterstock.com

While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks, insulated boots and maybe a roaring fire make things bearable for people who live in cold climates. But what about all the wildlife out there? Won’t they be freezing?

Pets are often suited up...

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3 ways Trump could disrupt health care for the better

  • Written by Peter Hilsenrath, Joseph M. Long Chair in Healthcare Management & Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific
More data may be key to disrupting health care. Zapp2Photo/Shutterstock.com

Since his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump has beenrepeatedly billed as a disrupter. From trade and foreign policy to immigration, Trump has consistently tried to shake up the status quo.

As experts in health care management and policy, we believe the president...

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Razor burned: Why Gillette's campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark

  • Written by Alan Abitbol, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Dayton
Who knew a razor blade company could become so controversial?Gillette/YouTube

Gillette has launched a new marketing campaign, “The Best Men Can Be,” with an ad that has gone viral.

The ad begins by depicting boys bullying other boys, women being harassed and cat-called, and a group of men excusing all of it as “boys will be boys.&r...

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El juicio al Chapo evidencia por qué un muro no detendrá el tráfico de drogas entre México y Estados Unidos

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Un dibujo de la corte Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.Elizabeth Williams via AP, File

El juicio contra el capo de la droga mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera ha revelado cuán poderosos son realmente los carteles de México.

El juicio ya lleva dos meses. El 15 de enero un narcotraficante colombiano...

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