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Happiness class is helping clinically depressed school teachers become emotionally healthy − with a cheery assist from Aristotle

  • Written by John Sommers-Flanagan, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Counseling, University of Montana
imageThis course is more than just suggesting that you 'cheer up' and 'look on the bright side.'akinbostanci/E+ via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of Course

Evidence-Based Happiness for Teachers

What prompted the idea for the course?

I was...

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Swing-state GOP leaders amplified election denial in 2020 − and may do so again

  • Written by Sadie Dempsey, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageWill local Republican Parties again serve as megaphones for election disinformation, as they did in 2020?AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File

With the 2024 election just weeks away, former President Donald Trump continues to spread false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He also insists without evidence that the same may happen this year.

In a Sept. 7,...

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San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution permits should be

  • Written by Robin Kundis Craig, Professor of Law, University of Kansas
imageBaker Beach and other San Francisco city beaches are sometimes closed for swimming due to sewage discharges.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act when it hears oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v....

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Millions of people across the US use well water, but very few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe

  • Written by Gabriel Lade, Associate Professor of Economics, Macalester College
imageSerious water contaminants such as nitrate may not have any detectable taste or odor.Willie B. Thomas/Digital Vision via Getty Images

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for human consumption.

Mu...

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If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of your paycheck in the US, check out the rest of the world

  • Written by Peter A. Coclanis, Professor of History; Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageAt what price?Charly Triballeau/AFP Getty Images

Though cynics may question her motives, Kamala Harris’ recent call to ban price gouging on groceries has received a lot of attention – and for good reason.

The cost of food has been a big concern for Americans since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with U.S. food prices rising 25% betwe...

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Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way, and it’s not just stubbornness

  • Written by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
imageEvacuation is more difficult for people with health and mobility issues.Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people were in evacuation shelters. Hundreds of thousands more had fled coastal regions ahead of the storm, crowding highways headed north and...

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Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way

  • Written by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
imageEvacuation is more difficult for people with health and mobility issues.Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people were in evacuation shelters. Hundreds of thousands more had fled coastal regions ahead of the storm, crowding highways headed north and...

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US inflation rate fell to 2.4% in September − here’s what that means for interest rates and markets

  • Written by Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
imageAll eyes on the CPI.Sila Damrongsaringkan/Getty Images Plus

It wasn’t that long ago that the Federal Reserve, the central bank for the United States, was worrying that annual inflation would surpass 9% in the middle of 2022. The U.S. economy hadn’t seen prices rise that fast since the 1980s, and most everyone feared that a series of...

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Is childproofing the internet constitutional? A tech law expert draws out the issues

  • Written by Meg Leta Jones, Associate Professor of Technology Law & Policy, Georgetown University
imageThe U.S. Supreme Court and Congress are wrestling with how to protect kids online.Meg Leta Jones, CC BY-ND

Mounting pressure to regulate children’s use of technology in the United States raises the question: Is childproofing the internet constitutional?

In response to significant political pressure stemming from alarming revelations about...

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Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: sales pitches are often from biased sources, the choices can be overwhelming and impartial help is not equally available to all

  • Written by Grace McCormack, Postdoctoral researcher of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
imageIt can take a lot of effort to understand the many different Medicare choices.Halfpoint Images/Moment via Getty Images

The 67 million Americans eligible for Medicare make an important decision every October: Should they make changes in their Medicare health insurance plans for the next calendar year?

The decision is complicated. Medicare has an...

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  5. A realistic statue of Mary giving birth was criticized, then vandalized − but saints and artists have often reimagined Christ’s birth
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  7. Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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  9. Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
  10. Blitz of political attack ads in Pennsylvania and other swing states may be doing candidates and voters more harm than good
  11. How a subfield of physics led to breakthroughs in AI – and from there to this year’s Nobel Prize
  12. Misspoke: The long and winding road to becoming a political weasel word
  13. DEA could reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category – a drug policy expert weighs the pros and cons
  14. So you don’t like Trump or Harris – here’s why it’s still best to vote for one of them
  15. Though home to about 50 white extremist groups, Ohio’s social and political landscape is undergoing rapid racial change
  16. The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due
  17. 5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns
  18. Harris proposes that Medicare cover more in-home health care, filling a large gap for older Americans and their caregivers
  19. Nobel Prize in physics spotlights key breakthroughs in AI revolution − making machines that learn
  20. How foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views
  21. Trump and Harris are sharply divided on science, but share common ground on US technology policy
  22. Can Montana’s ‘last rural Democrat’ survive another election?
  23. Is it COVID-19? Flu? At-home rapid tests could help you and your doctor decide on a treatment plan
  24. Kamala Harris has spoken of her racial backgrounds − but a shared identity isn’t enough to attract supporters
  25. ‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
  26. Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain
  27. European court ruling finds just cause to award soccer players greater freedom of movement
  28. Swing state voters along the Great Lakes love cleaner water and beaches − and candidates from both parties have long fished for support there
  29. Hurricane Milton explodes into a powerful Category 5 storm as it heads for Florida − here’s how rapid intensification works
  30. Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties
  31. MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genes
  32. How Hurricane Helene became a deadly disaster across six states
  33. Air pollution inside Philly’s subway is much worse than on the streets
  34. When and why do girls start forming cliques?
  35. NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the red planet’s geologic mysteries
  36. Why would people vote for Kamala Harris? 5 things to understand about why her supporters back her
  37. How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War
  38. A year ago, the hostages were a rallying point for solidarity in Israel – now, their families are symbols of the country’s sharp divides
  39. Colleges could benefit from taking a data-driven look at hostility toward Jews on campus
  40. Palestinians want to choose their own leaders – a year of war has distanced them further from this democratic goal
  41. A year of escalating conflict in the Middle East has ushered in a new era of regional displacement
  42. Dockworkers pause strike after Biden administration’s appeal to patriotism hits the mark
  43. A year after Hamas attack, more continuity than change for the Palestinians and Israel
  44. Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing
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  49. Kamala Harris illustrates how complex identity is − and the pressure many multiracial people feel to put themselves in one ‘box’
  50. Iran’s strike on Israel was retaliatory – but it was also about saving face and restoring deterrence