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Vaccine passports may be on the way – but are they a reason for hope or a cause for concern?

  • Written by Yara M. Asi, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
imageIsraeli diners with a 'green pass' get to enjoy a meal with friendsEmmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

After a year of canceled concerts, closed-door sporting events and restricted air travel, vaccine passports are being touted as a way to quicken the route back to normalcy.

The premise is straightforward: A digital or paper document will indicate...

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Dementia patients are at greater risk for COVID-19, particularly African Americans and people with vascular dementia

  • Written by Michael S. Jaffee, Vice Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
imageA new study says African Americans with dementia carry a higher risk for COVID-19 than whites with dementia. kate_sept2004/Getty Images

New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase people’s risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African Americans and people with vascular dementia.

The headline findings of a...

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Holding on to hope is hard, even with the pandemic's end in sight – wisdom from poets through the ages

  • Written by Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
imageAn upbeat staffer, Yi Arias, at a COVID-19 mass-vaccination event for health care workers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.Irfan Khan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

As we begin to glimpse what might be the beginning of the end of the pandemic, what does hope mean? It’s hard not to sense the presence of hope, but how do we think of it?

Hope is...

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Bangladesh at 50: A nation created in violence and still bearing scars of a troubled birth

  • Written by Tazreena Sajjad, Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service
imageBangladeshi children at the Independence Day celebrations in Dhaka in 2012. AP Photo/Pavel Rahman

March 26 marks 50 years since the start of Bangladesh’s liberation war, a bloody nine-month campaign that culminated in the nation’s independence on Dec. 16, 1971.

It was a violent birth, with some of its roots in the 1947 partition of India...

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The gender gap in economics is huge – it's even worse than tech

  • Written by Veronika Dolar, Assistant Professor of Economics, SUNY Old Westbury
imageUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the only woman who has chaired the Federal Reserve in its over 100-year history.AP Photo/Annie Rice

There is no shortage of disciplines and industries rife with sexism. The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are particularly well known for their misogynistic cultures.

B...

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Debunking the myth of legislative gridlock as laws and policy are made in the nation's capital

  • Written by Jeb Barnes, Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imagePresident Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill into law Thursday. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images

So much for gridlock.

President Joe Biden just signed a nearly $US1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Its swift passage relied on a process known as “budget reconciliation,” which allowed Congress to enact the plan without a...

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New Jersey State Police's first 100 years characterized by racial prejudice

  • Written by W. Carsten Andresen, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edward's University
imageNew Jersey state troopers salute before an NFL football game.AP Photo/Adam Hunger

The New Jersey State Police, founded 100 years ago, was created to counter the influence of the state’s rising populations of African Americans and immigrants, whom white residents feared.

My research into the agency’s culture found that the agency emerged...

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Women grow as much as 80% of India's food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles

  • Written by Bansari Kamdar, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Boston
imagePlanting paddy saplings in Patiala, India. Three-quarters of Indian farmers are women, but most don't own their land.Bharat Bhushan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Indian women are left behind on farms to make ends meet as more men in India migrate from rural areas to cities, seeking higher incomes and better jobs.

Nearly 75% of the full-time...

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Texas distorts its past – and Sam Houston's legacy – to defend Confederate monuments

  • Written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
imageHuntsville reveres hometown hero Sam Houston. And he did not revere the Confederacy. Jimmy Henderson/flickr, CC BY-SA

At least 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces across the United States in 2020, according to the the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, has removed a statue of Gen....

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Sewage-testing robots process wastewater faster to predict COVID-19 outbreaks sooner

  • Written by Smruthi Karthikeyan, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
imageSewage samples mixed with magnetic beads and loaded onto the liquid-handling robot for viral concentrationC. H. Sheikhzadeh @ HOMA Photographic Art

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

The big idea

By using a sewage-handling robot, our laboratory has been able to detect coronavirus in wastewater 30 times faster than...

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  4. Skipping the vaccine line is not only unethical – it may undermine trust in the rollout
  5. The US delivers $1.9 trillion jolt of economic relief: 4 essential reads
  6. How a silent movie informs the current debate over the right to be forgotten
  7. It's not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation
  8. Kids spending too much time staring at screens? Focus on positive goals to get them moving and reading and talking
  9. US army chaplain Emil Kapaun advancing toward sainthood
  10. I went down the 'rabbit hole' to debunk misinformation – here's what I learned about Big Ben and online information overload
  11. Netflix series 'Last Chance U' speaks to the reality of athletes I study
  12. China's 'mask diplomacy' wins influence across Africa, during and after the pandemic
  13. Biden ends policy forcing asylum-seekers to 'remain in Mexico' – but for 41,247 migrants, it's too late
  14. How 18 million Americans could move into rural areas – without leaving home
  15. Pollen can raise your risk of COVID-19 – and the season is getting longer thanks to climate change
  16. How a 'feminist' foreign policy would change the world
  17. How urban planning and housing policy helped create 'food apartheid' in US cities
  18. Traffic is down on American highways during the pandemic, but vehicle deaths are up – here’s how to stay safe on the road
  19. COVID-19 survivor's guilt a growing issue as reality of loss settles in
  20. 3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
  21. A global semiconductor shortage highlights a troubling trend: A small and shrinking number of the world's computer chips are made in the US
  22. Biased AI can be bad for your health – here's how to promote algorithmic fairness
  23. Growing food and protecting nature don't have to conflict – here's how they can work together
  24. Vaccinated and ready to party? Not so fast, says the CDC, but you can gather with other vaccinated people
  25. New York Gov. Cuomo is the textbook example of how not to apologize
  26. Growing cannabis indoors produces a lot of greenhouse gases – just how much depends on where it's grown
  27. Alumni gratitude and support for causes are behind donations of $50 million or more to colleges and universities
  28. Is gaming good for kids?
  29. 5 strategies to prepare now for the next pandemic
  30. How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes
  31. Immune interference – why even 'updated' vaccines could struggle to keep up with emerging coronavirus strains
  32. A year into the pandemic, the coronavirus is messing with our minds as well as our bodies
  33. Economists: Biden's $1,400 COVID-19 checks may be great politics, but it's questionable economics
  34. States drop COVID-19 mask mandates but still expect people to mask up – will they?
  35. Women in Afghanistan worry peace accord with Taliban extremists could cost them hard-won rights
  36. 10 years after Fukushima, safety is still nuclear power's greatest challenge
  37. The oil industry says it might support a carbon tax – here's why that could be good for producers and the public alike
  38. Backlash against Johnson Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine is real and risky – here's how to make its rollout a success
  39. Support for QAnon is hard to measure – and polls may overestimate it
  40. Support for Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package may not be as broad as it seems – it's all a matter of perspective
  41. Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in
  42. Going forth with standardized tests may cause more problems than it solves
  43. Fungal microbiome: Whether mice get fatter or thinner depends on the fungi that live in their gut
  44. Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire
  45. The science behind frozen wind turbines – and how to keep them spinning through the winter
  46. January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from winter to spring
  47. Revisiting reparations: Is it time for the US to pay its debt for the legacy of slavery?
  48. What the policing response to the KKK in the 1960s can teach about dismantling white supremacist groups today
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