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Scientists tend to superspecialize – but there are ways they can change

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imageIf scientists' knowledge is segregated in non-overlapping silos, there can't be cross-pollination between fields.Doc Searls, CC BY

Crossing disciplinary boundaries is unusual – and crucially important. In 1998, groundbreaking thinker and eminent biologist EO Wilson cautioned against scientific overspecialization, warning that thought silos...

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Targeting black viewers: what The Wiz Live! tells us about race and TV advertising

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imageMore than 11 million people tuned in to the primetime special.NBC

For two hours on a Saturday night in 1955, TV viewers in Harlem turned off their television sets, a boycott meant to send a message to the nation’s broadcasting networks.

The reason? According to NAACP Vice President Odell Clarke (quoted in a February 21 1955 St Petersburg Times...

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Obama shows the flaws in America’s efforts to combat ISIS

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imageSpeaking to the nation December 6Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Winston Churchill famously suggested that:

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Speaking with his characteristic mix of the compassionate and cerebral, the articulate and analytic, President Obama reminded Americans of the need...

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Why treat gene editing differently in two types of human cells?

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imageA snip here, but not a snip there?DNA image via www.shutterstock.com

At the conclusion of the recent International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC, its organizing committee released a much-anticipated statement recommending how human genetic engineering should be regulated. Co-organized by US, UK and Chinese national academies, the...

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Wall Street watchdog SEC can't end violence in Congo

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imageThe conflict mineral provision has hurt the victims of the violence more than the perpetrators.Reuters

A civil war has raged in the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than 15 years, resulting in the deaths of millions and displacing millions more.

Fueling the violence has been the illicit sale of minerals such as tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold,...

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National security experts react to President Obama's speech on ISIS

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imageObama speaks about counterterrorism and the US fight against ISIS from the Oval Office, December 6 2015. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/PooSaul Loeb/REUTERS

President Obama challenges Congress and Muslims

Peter Dombrowski, Navy War College

Eight times President Obama has addressed the nation after mass shootings in the United States. Last week’s shooting in...

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Climate activists take to social media for Paris summit, but who are they reaching?

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imageShoes in Place de la Republique - Climate of Peace #climat2paix. Photo taken by John Englart in Paris on November 29.Takver/flickr, CC BY-SA

With public demonstrations banned at the COP21 conference on climate change in Paris, climate activists are taking to social media to get out their message on climate justice.

Before the official summit kicked...

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If you give a man a gun: the evolutionary psychology of mass shootings

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imageA longing for power and social status mixed with hormones and fear can have deadly consequences. 'Man' via www.shutterstock.com

Men commit over 85% of all homicides, 91% of all same-sex homicides and 97% of all same-sex homicides in which the victim and killer aren’t related to each other.

These startling statistics are driven home with each...

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