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Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California reckons with its Spanish colonial past

  • Written by Abel R. Gomez, PhD Candidate, Religion Department, Syracuse University
imageThe 18th-century Catholic missionary Junipero Serra at work in California. Lawrence OP/flickr/St. Casimir’s church in Baltimore, CC BY-SA

Statues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra were recently toppled in the U.S. cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento as part of a national movement for racial justice sparked by the...

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Why Hagia Sophia remains a potent symbol of spiritual and political authority

  • Written by Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
imageThe first Muslim prayers were held on Friday inside the Hagia Sophia in 86 years.AP Photo/Yasin Akgul

Since its origins in the sixth century A.D, the Hagia Sophia has served as a church, a mosque, and, since 1934, a museum. But on July 10, the Turkish government declared that from now on it would serve as a mosque and be open for all visitors when...

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The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community

  • Written by Gerard Buckley, President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA sign language interpreter signs as Secretary of State John Kerry testifies in 2013. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Americans with Disabilities Act is 30 years old.

For young people who have grown up with the ADA, the results of this landmark legislation are part of everyday life – sometimes in ways they may not even realize.

I was there...

Read more: The ADA isn't just about ramps -- over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community

John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and jail cells

  • Written by Jelani M. Favors, Associate Professor of History, Clayton State University
imageJohn Lewis, right, marched with Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equality. Steve Schapiro / Contributor/GettyImages

As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John Lewis stuttered and struggled to read. A visiting professor mocked his stammered speech and...

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Love avocados? Thank the toxodon

  • Written by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor, Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
imageThe finicky fruit took some time to adapt to California's climate.Print Collector via Getty Images

Given avocado’s popularity today, it’s hard to believe that we came close to not having them in our supermarkets at all.

In my new book “Avocado: A Global History,” I explain how the avocado survived a series of ecological and...

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3 questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart or map

  • Written by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, PhD Candidate in Geosciences, Boise State University
imageWhite House Coronavirus Task Force members reference a misleading chart in a press briefing.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Since the days of painting on cave walls, people have been representing information through figures and images. Nowadays, data visualization experts know that presenting information visuallyhelps people better understandcomplicated data....

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¿Cómo el 'blanco' se convirtió en una metáfora de las cosas buenas?

  • Written by Aradhna Krishna, Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
imageEl sueño de Jacob de Salvator Rosa (c. 1665). artuk.org

Poco después de la muerte de George Floyd, uno de mis amigos me envió un mensaje de texto diciendo que Floyd no era necesariamente una mala persona, pero agregó que “tampoco era blanco como el lirio” refiriéndose a las épocas que...

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Why hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine don't block coronavirus infection of human lung cells

  • Written by Katherine Seley-Radtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and President-Elect of the International Society for Antiviral Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageChloroquine is an antimalarial drug originally developed in 1934; it doesn't block coronavirus infection in humans. Brasil2 / Getty Images

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

The big idea

A paper came out in Nature on July 22 that further underscores earlier studies that show that neither the malaria drug...

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How the images of John Lewis being beaten during 'Bloody Sunday' went viral

  • Written by Aniko Bodroghkozy, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
imageJohn Lewis, in the foreground, is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.AP Photo

On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

TV reporters and photographers were there, cameras ready, and the...

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Science elicits hope in Americans – its positive brand doesn't need to be partisan

  • Written by Todd Newman, Assistant Professor of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
image"Science" makes people think optimistically about the future.WIN-Initiative/Stone via Getty Images

Harley-Davidson is one of the most iconic brands in the world. Harley-Davidson, however, doesn’t sell motorcycles – it sells a lifestyle. Look at any Harley-Davidson advertisement and you will see someone riding the open road. The...

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  1. Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic
  2. Online Christian pilgrimage: How a virtual tour to Lourdes follows a tradition of innovation
  3. Massive online open courses see exponential growth during COVID-19 pandemic
  4. What are political parties' platforms – and do they matter?
  5. How to make sure you're wearing your mask right
  6. Low-wage service workers are facing new emotional hazards in the workplace during COVID-19
  7. Is telehealth as good as in-person care? A telehealth researcher explains how to get the most out of remote health care
  8. The Constitution doesn't have a problem with mask mandates
  9. People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19
  10. Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits
  11. How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them
  12. How popular culture hobbles protest movements
  13. Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected
  14. Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be
  15. 'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president
  16. Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them
  17. Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research
  18. Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns
  19. Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled
  20. Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise
  21. Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong
  22. New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
  23. How Taiwanese death rituals have adapted for families living in the US
  24. With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them
  25. ALS scientific breakthrough: Diabetes drug metformin shows promise in mouse study for a common type of ALS
  26. Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday
  27. In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat
  28. Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows
  29. COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here's why that matters
  30. How local governments can attract companies that will help keep their economies afloat during COVID-19
  31. Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an endearing story
  32. Mandatory face masks might lull people into taking more coronavirus risks
  33. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle
  34. Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
  35. Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest – which is why soda taxes could help reduce gaping health inequalities
  36. The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
  37. To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap
  38. Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna's latest vaccine trials
  39. Why Congress can't curb Trump's power to commute Stone's sentence and pardon others
  40. Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas
  41. Pro-choice movement's big win at Supreme Court might really have been a loss
  42. How the coronavirus pandemic became Florida's perfect storm
  43. Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits
  44. Until teachers feel safe, widespread in-person K-12 schooling may prove impossible in US
  45. Contact tracing's long, turbulent history holds lessons for COVID-19
  46. Research on voting by mail says it's safe – from fraud and disease
  47. Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of corporate activism
  48. Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we still fecking using them today?
  49. Protestantism's troubling history with white supremacy in the US
  50. Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities