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How the failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings

  • Written by Elizabeth Thompson, Professor and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, American University School of International Service
imageOn May 27, 1919, British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian President Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and American President Woodrow Wilson met May 27, 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference.Lee Jackson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The racism that is now the target of protest across the globe is rooted in the...

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Obamacare's unexpected bonus: How the Affordable Care Act is helping middle-aged Americans during the pandemic

  • Written by Marc Cohen, Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, University of Massachusetts Boston
imagePresident Barack Obama championed the Affordable Care Act, enacted into law during his administration in 2010. Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla

Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it. Yet it’s now clear that the ACA has brought significant improvements to...

Read more: Obamacare's unexpected bonus: How the Affordable Care Act is helping middle-aged Americans during...

¿Qué puede aprender la cadena de suministro médica de la industria de la moda?

  • Written by Tinglong Dai, Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins University
imageMascarillas: intersección de la salud y la moda.Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

La escasez de suministros médicos cruciales, especialmente equipos de protección personal (EPP), ha paralizado la capacidad de Estados Unidos para sofocar la pandemia de COVID-19.

Al menos 59,000 residentes y trabajadores de hogares para adultos...

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Timeouts improve kids' behavior if you do them the right way

  • Written by Lucy (Kathleen) McGoron, Assistant Professor of Child and Family Development, Wayne State University
imageThe disciplinary technique can reduce aggression and help get children to follow family rules. Brooke Fasani Auchincloss/The Image Bank via Getty Images

With parents spending more time with their children than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their need for discipline that works is greater than ever. Fortunately, there are some proven techniques....

Read more: Timeouts improve kids' behavior if you do them the right way

Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk of reopening classrooms

  • Written by Hardy Murphy, Professor of Education, IUPUI
imageMaking schools safe will take more than wiping down surfaces.AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

Classrooms, gyms and cafeterias at schools across the U.S. have remained empty for months now. And despite some districts beginning to reopen, many others will remain closed amid fears that prematurely restarting in-person classes could cost more lives in the...

Read more: Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk of reopening classrooms

Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles

  • Written by William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
imageAre there places in the body where SARS-CoV-2 can hide from the immune system?fotograzia / Getty Images

As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide out” in seemingly recovered individuals. If it does, could this explain some of the lingering symptoms of COVID-19...

Read more: Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the...

Why a Canadian hockey team's name recalls US Civil War destruction

  • Written by Christopher J. Young, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Director of the Center for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning, and Professor of History, Indiana University
imageA Czech-born goaltender for a Canadian hockey team wears a jersey recalling the 1864 burning of Atlanta, Georgia.AP Photo/Mark Zaleski

As the National Hockey League gets its abbreviated season back underway, a team with a name hearkening back to the Civil War will take the ice – in Canada.

In September 1864, having conquered the city of...

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One 19th-century artist's effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19

  • Written by Elizabeth Lee, Associate Professor of Art History, Dickinson College
imageA detail from Abbott Thayer's 1887 painting 'Angel,' in which his eldest daughter appears as a heavenly figure.Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of John Gellatly

Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have had to adjust what they make as well as how and...

Read more: One 19th-century artist's effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19

Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted

  • Written by Jonathan Colmer, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
imageFresno, California and the surrounding San Joaquin Valley have some of the nation's highest levels of fine particle air pollution.AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian

Air pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year – twice as many as war, other violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Fine particulate...

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  1. How California’s COVID-19 surge widens health inequalities for Black, Latino and low-income residents
  2. Hitler en casa: cómo la máquina de relaciones públicas nazi reinventó la imagen doméstica del Führer y engañó al mundo
  3. Test positivity rate: How this one figure explains that the US isn't doing enough testing yet
  4. Energy is a basic need, and many Americans are struggling to afford it in the COVID-19 recession
  5. The importance of blood tests for Alzheimer's: 2 neuroscientists explain the recent findings
  6. Enslaved people's health was ignored from the country's beginning, laying the groundwork for today's health disparities
  7. 5 takeaways from MacKenzie Scott's $1.7 billion in support for social justice causes
  8. Next COVID casualty: Cities hit hard by the pandemic face bankruptcy
  9. Don't blame cats for destroying wildlife – shaky logic is leading to moral panic
  10. Business major fails to attract Latino students
  11. Why is Eid celebrated twice a year and how has coronavirus changed the festival?
  12. Private browsing: What it does – and doesn't do – to shield you from prying eyes on the web
  13. Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex have a long history
  14. Militias' warning of excessive federal power comes true – but where are they?
  15. Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more
  16. ¿Qué son los aerosoles y por qué son tan peligrosos ante la pandemia de COVID-19?
  17. NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
  18. As the NBA and MLB resume, how might empty seats influence player performances?
  19. African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely than whites to get treatment
  20. Landlord-leaning eviction courts are about to make the coronavirus housing crisis a lot worse
  21. The gender pay gap that no one is paying attention to
  22. Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time – understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread
  23. What is the Islamic weekend?
  24. Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured
  25. Kids need to wear masks when they go to school in person, and parents can help them get the hang of that
  26. Lawmakers keen to break up 'big tech' like Amazon and Google need to realize the world has changed a lot since Microsoft and Standard Oil
  27. ¿Te imaginas la vida sin aguacate? Estos son los momentos en la historia en que pudo desaparecer
  28. Faith-based 'violence interrupters' stop gang shootings with promise of redemption for at-risk youth – not threats of jail
  29. How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of 'ghosting' in the age of surveillance
  30. Yes, kids can get COVID-19 – 3 pediatricians explain what's known about coronavirus and children
  31. Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth's last frontier
  32. Many students with the potential to excel in STEM fields struggle in school
  33. Companies are struggling to engage with today's activists – a new survey explores why
  34. Cómo Jesús llegó a parecerse a un europeo blanco
  35. When a winner becomes a loser: Winston Churchill was kicked out of office in the British election of 1945
  36. 4 lawsuits that challenge Trump's federal agents in Portland test issues other cities will likely face
  37. At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old
  38. Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis
  39. What are the origins of cathedrals and chapels?
  40. Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost?
  41. The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explained
  42. The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire
  43. The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A cause for celebration during COVID-19?
  44. Síndrome de Guillain-Barré, raro trastorno neurológico relacionado con COVID-19
  45. Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short
  46. The office is dead! Long live the office in a post-pandemic world
  47. Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past
  48. Why Hagia Sophia remains a potent symbol of spiritual and political authority
  49. The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community
  50. John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and jail cells