NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

The Conversation

Brazil’s economic crisis, prolonged by COVID-19, poses an enormous challenge to the Amazon

  • Written by Peter Richards, Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
imageA deforested piece of land in the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondonia, in northern Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2019.Carl De SouzaA/FP via Getty Images

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed his country’s participation in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. for April 22 and 23, vowing in a recent letter to U.S....

Read more: Brazil’s economic crisis, prolonged by COVID-19, poses an enormous challenge to the Amazon

Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn't prepared to counter Russia

  • Written by Rockford Weitz, Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imageRussia has been beefing up its Arctic icebreaker fleet to take advantage of the climate changes.Lev Fedoseyev\TASS via Getty Images

For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition, but that’s changing as its ice melts with the warming climate.

Russia is now attempting to claim more of the Arctic...

Read more: Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn't prepared to counter Russia

Has any US president ever served more than eight years?

  • Written by David Yalof, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
imageFranklin Delano Roosevelt, standing at center and facing left just above the eagle, takes the presidential oath of office for the third time in 1941.FDR Presidential Library and Museum via Flickr, CC BYimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversa...

Read more: Has any US president ever served more than eight years?

No, vaccine side effects don't tell you how well your immune system will protect you from COVID-19

  • Written by Robert Finberg, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
imageIt's not a bad sign if you feel fine after your COVID-19 shot.Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images

If someone gets a headache or feels a bit under the weather after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, it’s become common to hear them say something like “Oh, it just means my immune system is really working hard.” On the flip side,...

Read more: No, vaccine side effects don't tell you how well your immune system will protect you from COVID-19

Forget the debate over public health versus jobs – the same people suffer the most either way

  • Written by Alicia R. Riley, Postdoctoral Scholar in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Throughout the pandemic, millions of Americans wondered: “Is the cure worse than the disease?”

The question implies a trade-off between “the cure,” in the form of economic shutdowns, and “the disease,” COVID-19. This debate dominated headlines in the first months of the pandemic. More than a year later, it...

Read more: Forget the debate over public health versus jobs – the same people suffer the most either way

Are America's schools safe for Asian Americans?

  • Written by Charissa S. L. Cheah, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageEight out of 10 Asian American youths reported being bullied and harassed during the pandemic.RyanJLane/E+ via Getty Images

The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic has prompted many Asian American parents to enroll their children in remote learning out of concern for their child’s safety at school. Asian American youths are...

Read more: Are America's schools safe for Asian Americans?

Biden administration's $39 billion child care strategy: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Taryn Morrissey, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
imageHigh-quality day care has always been scarce in the U.S.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

States are getting US$39 billion from the federal government to support child care. The money comes from the $1.9 trillion relief package that President Joe Biden signed in March 2021 and is on top of $10 billion for child care included in the $900 million relief...

Read more: Biden administration's $39 billion child care strategy: 5 questions answered

Being skeptical of sources is a journalist's job – but it doesn't always happen when those sources are the police

  • Written by Danielle K. Kilgo, John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, University of Minnesota
imagePolice body camera video shows Adam Toledo's hands were raised just before he was shot.Chicago Police Department via AP

The death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo might well have made international headlines on March 29, 2021 – the day he was shot and killed by a police officer – had the emerging narrative been different.

Instead, early news...

Read more: Being skeptical of sources is a journalist's job – but it doesn't always happen when those sources...

Sikhs in America: A religious community long misunderstood is mourning deaths in Indianapolis mass shooting

  • Written by Simran Jeet Singh, Visiting Professor, Union Theological Seminary
imageMembers of the Sikh community in Indianapolis gather after a mass shooting in which eight people, including four Sikhs, died, in Indianapolis, Indiana.Jon Cherry/Getty Images

On April 16, 2021, a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis killing eight people and injuring several others before taking his own life. Four members of the...

Read more: Sikhs in America: A religious community long misunderstood is mourning deaths in Indianapolis mass...

How many _Tyrannosaurus rex_ walked the Earth?

  • Written by Ashley Poust, Research Associate in Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
image_Tyrannosaurus rex_ spanned all of ancient North America, and about 20,000 lived at once.1Ado123/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever lived, and 20,000 individual animals would have been...

Read more: How many _Tyrannosaurus rex_ walked the Earth?

More Articles ...

  1. Cuba's economic woes may fuel America's next migrant crisis
  2. You're not imagining it – 3 ways COVID-19 has been extra hard on American parents
  3. Fatal police violence may be linked to preterm births in neighborhoods nearby
  4. America goes back to school – 5 essential reads on parenting in the pandemic
  5. I’m a pediatrician who cares for transgender kids – here’s what you need to know about social support, puberty blockers and other medical options that improve lives of transgender youth
  6. 6 ways recent college graduates can enhance their online job search
  7. 80% of fatal e-scooter crashes involve cars – new study reveals where and why most collisions occur
  8. As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns
  9. Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?
  10. French row over mosque isn't simply about state financing – it runs deep into Islamophobia and French secularism
  11. How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters
  12. What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses
  13. Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets
  14. Why Wall Street investors' trading California water futures is nothing to fear – and unlikely to work anyway
  15. Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water, research suggests – here's why that's a public health problem
  16. Infrastructure? Or jobs? Controversy over name of Biden proposal highlights long tradition in politics
  17. The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality
  18. How to get COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries – and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers
  19. Colombia gives nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants legal status and right to work
  20. COVID-19 public health messages have been all over the place – but researchers know how to do better
  21. Trump, defying custom, hasn't given the National Archives records of his speeches at political rallies
  22. Compassionate courage moves beyond 'cancel culture' to challenge systemic racism – but it's hard work
  23. 'Deprogramming' QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place
  24. Is magic immoral? It played a role in the development of early Christianity
  25. Knoxville school shooting serves as stark reminder of a familiar – but preventable – threat
  26. Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and transforming their environments
  27. US postpones Afghanistan troop withdrawal in hopes of sustaining peace process: 5 essential reads
  28. The EU wants a carbon tax on imports – but would it be the climate solution officials expect?
  29. Johnson Johnson vaccine suspension – a doctor explains what this means for you
  30. 143,518 US public library workers are keeping their communities informed, connected and engaged – but their jobs may be at risk
  31. How race-related stress could be driving educators of color away from the job
  32. One change that could help nursing homes recover from COVID-19 fears and become safer places for aging parents
  33. Why student athletes need a new playbook to stay safe in the COVID-19 era
  34. How 'complementarianism' – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine
  35. Long live the monarchy! British royals tend to survive a full three decades longer than their subjects
  36. How the Supreme Court found its faith and put 'religious liberty' on a winning streak
  37. We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments
  38. Polen puede aumentar el riesgo de contraer COVID-19, ya sea que tengas alergias o no, según estudio
  39. A nutrition report card for Americans: Dark clouds, silver linings
  40. Astrocyte cells in the fruit fly brain are an on-off switch that controls when neurons can change and grow
  41. Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law
  42. Northern Ireland, born of strife 100 years ago, again erupts in political violence
  43. How many states and provinces are in the world?
  44. MLB's decision to drop Atlanta highlights the economic power companies can wield over lawmakers – when they choose to
  45. What inspired digital nomads to flee America's big cities may spur legions of remote workers to do the same
  46. Write ill of the dead? Obits rarely cross that taboo as they look for the positive in people's lives
  47. Proof of new physics from the muon's magnetic moment? Maybe not, according to a new theoretical calculation
  48. Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth – to fuel a more equitable economy, countries need to measure the well-being of people, too
  49. At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues
  50. 3 ways music educators can help students with autism develop their emotions