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What the 2018 farm bill means for urban, suburban and rural America

  • Written by Tom Vilsack, Special Advisor, Colorado State University
Soybean crop on a family farm near Humboldt, Iowa, 2017.USDA/Preston Keres

Since the turn of the year, Congress and the Trump administration have been haggling over legislative priorities for 2018. Many issues are on the agenda, from health care to infrastructure, but there has been little mention of a key priority: The 2018 farm bill.

This...

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Post-fire landslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

  • Written by Lee MacDonald, Professor of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
As many as 20 people are dead and dozens missing following the Southern California mudslides.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled in from the Pacific. In most places the rainfall was welcomed and did not cause any major flooding...

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Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

  • Written by Lee MacDonald, Professor of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
As many as 20 people are dead and dozens missing following the Southern California mudslides.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled in from the Pacific. In most places the rainfall was welcomed and did not cause any major flooding...

Read more: Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

Signaling more independence from the US, the World Bank phases out its support for fossil fuels

  • Written by Jason Kirk, Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron. AP Photo/Francois Mori

The World Bank, which provides developing countries about US$60 billion a year in financial assistance, is officially phasing out its support for the oil and gas industries.

This move brings its actions more in sync with its overarching commitment...

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How rejuvenation of stem cells could lead to healthier aging

  • Written by Elisa Lazzari, Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
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“Rampant” and “elderly” are words rarely used in the same sentence, unless we are talking of the percentage of people over 65 years old worldwide. Life expectancy has considerably increased, but it is still unknown how many of those years are going to be lived in good health.

As a researcher of...

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Reaching rural America with broadband internet service

  • Written by Sharon Strover, Director, Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute; Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Telecommunications wires stretch along a rural Kansas road.Technology & Information Policy Institute, University of Texas, CC BY-ND

All across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century economy. I’ve traveled to Kansas, Maine, Texas and other states studying internet access and...

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Is language key to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict?

  • Written by Stanley Dubinsky, Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina
A teacher from the Arab town of Kabul gives an Arabic class to Israeli schoolchildren.AP Photo/Oded Balilty

According to a 2017 Pew Research Center poll, many people believe language is “the core of national identity.”

More than 70 percent of the population of the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan agree on this. And yet, as...

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US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a row. Let's stop the trend now

  • Written by David Bishai, Professor of Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Deaths from opioid, suicide and other public health threats could have been avoided.Syda Productions/shutterstock.com

U.S. gross domestic product is at an all-time high. U.S. life expectancy is not.

Life expectancy has fallen for the second time in two years – from a high of 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.6 years in 2016. It fell for men and...

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Shades of green: What gig economy workers can learn from the success of romance writers

  • Written by Chris Larson, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado

When “Fifty Shades Freed” opens in theaters on Feb. 9, fans will no doubt flock to see bad boy Christian Grey (played by Jamie Dornan) bested by naughty-but-nice heroine Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).

A less racy but equally thrilling story, my research shows, is how romance writers are getting ahead in the digital era.

While...

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  1. How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery breakthrough
  2. Deadly California mudslides show the need for maps and zoning that better reflect landslide risk
  3. New study reveals why some people are more creative than others
  4. Closure of DC public charter school offers important lessons for Secretary DeVos and school choice debate
  5. What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as 'shining example'
  6. Donald Trump doesn't understand Haiti, immigration or American history
  7. What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant'
  8. Craft beer is becoming the wine of New England by redefining 'terroir'
  9. Does defense actually win championships?
  10. What Jeff Sessions doesn't understand about medical marijuana
  11. Thanks to the North Carolina case, partisan gerrymandering's day of reckoning may soon be upon us
  12. Quantum speed limit may put brakes on quantum computers
  13. Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
  14. Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence
  15. When I got DACA, I was forced to revert to a name I had left behind
  16. Is warming in the Arctic behind this year's crazy winter weather?
  17. Turning power over to states won't improve protection for endangered species
  18. Autonomous vehicles could help millions of people catch up on sleep, TV and work
  19. For black celebrities like Oprah, it's impossible to be apolitical
  20. The 'greatest pandemic in history' was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
  21. When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them
  22. Targeting hidden roots of workplace harassment is key to fulfilling Oprah's promise to girls
  23. More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies — and that's a good thing
  24. MLK's vision of love as a moral imperative still matters
  25. Defanged regulations have big media licking their chops
  26. Rejection of subsidies for coal and nuclear power is a win for fact-based policymaking
  27. Why is El Salvador so dangerous? 4 essential reads
  28. How California's megachurches changed Christian culture
  29. Why most nonprofit boards resemble whiteboards and how to fix that
  30. Why children's savings accounts should be America's next wealth transfer program
  31. Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits them
  32. Does Apple have an obligation to make the iPhone safer for kids?
  33. Fit to serve: Data on transgender military service
  34. From cowboys to commandos: Connecting sexual and gun violence with media archetypes
  35. Will religiously unaffiliated Americans increase support for liberal policies, in 2018 and beyond?
  36. Universities must prepare for a technology-enabled future
  37. Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery – so they are practicing in the shadows
  38. Why Iran's protests matter this time
  39. Why states may get away with creative income tax maneuvers
  40. How does assisting with suicide affect physicians?
  41. Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
  42. Driverless cars might follow the rules of the road, but what about the language of driving?
  43. Scientist at work: I've dived in hundreds of underwater caves hunting for new forms of life
  44. From bad to worse? 5 things 2018 will bring to the Middle East
  45. Trump's offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon
  46. The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner
  47. When charities let telemarketers gouge donors
  48. Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky
  49. Did far-right extremist violence really spike in 2017?
  50. The hidden homelessness among America's high school students