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Bob Newhart was more than an actor or comedian – he was a literary master

  • Written by Mark Canada, Chancellor and Professor of English, Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana University Kokomo
imageA classic Newhart bit involved making imaginary phone calls, such as in his 'Abe Lincoln' bit.AP Photo/Jerome T. Nakagawa

If you knew Bob Newhart only as an actor – most notably as the star of the legendary “Bob Newhart Show” but also in a minor though memorable role in the movie “Elf” – you may not have thought...

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Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles – volunteers’ traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city insects and spiders

  • Written by Laura Melissa Guzman, Assistant Professor of Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageVolunteers tend to an insect trap in Los Angeles.Deniz Durmus, courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, CC BY-SA

The most significant predictors of bug biodiversity in Los Angeles are proximity to the mountains and temperature stability throughout the year, according to a study weco-authored with Brian V. Brown of the Los...

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Diabetes and obesity can damage the liver to the point of failure – but few people know their risk of developing liver disease

  • Written by Madona Azar, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
imageInsulin resistance links MASLD to several other metabolic diseases.Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Liver disease is frighteningly common worldwide.

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, is an umbrella term describing conditions related to a buildup of fat in the liver. Formerly known as nonalcoholic...

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The Yezidi genocide devastated Iraq’s community 10 years ago − but the roots of the prejudice that fueled it were much deeper

  • Written by Güneş Murat Tezcür, Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
imagePictures of Yezidis slain in 2014 by Islamic State group militants, found in a small room at the Lalish shrine in northern Iraq. AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo

On the morning of Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State group launched a ruthless and swift campaign in Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq. The target was Yezidis: a monotheistic religious group whose members...

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Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation

  • Written by Binita Mahato, Assistant Professor of Community Planning, Auburn University
imageOak Park, Montgomery's first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND

Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most segregated U.S. cities, and still struggles with racial...

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Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

  • Written by Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
imagePresident Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their...

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Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem

  • Written by Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageDisplays at LaGuardia Airport in New York show the infamous "blue screen of death."AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura

The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games represents a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals,...

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What is Catholic Integralism?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageJD Vance, who has many of the same policy positions that many American Catholic conservatives hold, at a rally in Ohio in 2021.AP Photo/Jeff Dean

Since his nomination as the Republican candidate for vice president, focus has intensified on JD Vance’s religious beliefs and how they connect to his politics.

Vance is a convert to Catholicism...

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Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum

  • Written by Danielle Lee Tomson, Research Manager, Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington
imageA bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents.Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

In the immediate hours after the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, social media users posted the same videos, images and eyewitness accounts but used them as evidence for different rumors or theories that aligned...

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Biden’s and Trump’s ages would prevent them running many top companies – and for good reason

  • Written by Brandon Cline, Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
imageThey've set two records as the oldest presidential hopefuls.AP Photo

President Joe Biden, currently seeking a second term as the Democratic Party’s nominee, is 81. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, is 78. No one older has run for U.S. president before. That was also true in 2020, when the same two men ran...

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  1. How the Ukrainians – with no navy – defeated Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
  2. Affordable housing in God’s backyard: Some religious congregations find a new use for their space
  3. Age would prevent Trump and Biden from running many top companies − and for good reason
  4. Why I turned the ‘Red Dead Redemption II’ video game into a history class on America’s violent past
  5. Sports in extreme heat: How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of practice, and the warning signs of heat illness
  6. Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops
  7. Cutting marketing spending often backfires on businesses – new research could help investors distinguish shortsighted cuts from smart ones
  8. Sports in extreme heat: Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices
  9. Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling
  10. Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering
  11. After more than 40 years, the federal right to free education for immigrant students finds itself in the crosshairs of conservatives
  12. Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ is just the latest action plan from a group with an over 50-year history of steering GOP lawmaking
  13. Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk
  14. Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic
  15. Pennsylvania continues tradition as ‘keystone state’ in presidential elections
  16. What the Catholic Church says about political violence and the need to forgive – even would-be assassins
  17. ‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
  18. Baby bull sharks are thriving in Texas and Alabama bays as the Gulf of Mexico warms
  19. How Trump’s appeal to nostalgia deliberately evokes America’s more-racist, more-sexist past
  20. AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
  21. Supreme Court’s blow to federal agencies’ power will likely weaken abortion rights – 3 issues to watch
  22. The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
  23. A short history of the rise, fall and return of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  24. Stroke survivors may be saddled with an invisible disability known as spatial neglect – but a simple treatment offers significant improvement
  25. Want to spur your child’s intellectual development? Use audiobooks instead of videos
  26. The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
  27. America faces a power disconnection crisis amid dangerous heat: In 27 states, utilities can shut off electricity for nonpayment even in a heat wave
  28. Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  29. Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
  30. Target just became the latest US retailer to stop accepting payment by checks. Why have so many stores given up on them?
  31. Trump-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s classified document case is unconstitutional – here’s how special counsels have been authorized before
  32. How to protect your home from wildfires – here’s what fire prevention experts say is most important
  33. New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse
  34. Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  35. Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains
  36. Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
  37. Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
  38. How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
  39. Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
  40. Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
  41. Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
  42. ‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
  43. Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
  44. Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
  45. As nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
  46. Immigrant moms feel unsafe and unheard when seeking pregnancy care – here’s how they’d improve Philly’s health care system
  47. Meteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
  48. Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence
  49. Odds are that gambling on the Biden/Trump competition will further reduce the presidential campaign to a horse race
  50. Will a market crash one day be pinned on the Supreme Court? An accounting expert explains why recent rulings have him worried