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Distance learning makes it harder for kids to exercise, especially in low-income communities

  • Written by Katelyn Esmonde, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
imageBecause of remote learning, school children have no opportunity to attend physical education classes.FatCamera via Getty Images

This fall hasn’t felt much like “back to school” for many children. Instead, many are staying at home and attending virtual classes indefinitely.

According to the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a...

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Amy Coney Barrett may be the next woman on the Supreme Court – but does a nominee's gender matter?

  • Written by Susan M. Sterett, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageTrump with 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her family Sept. 26 at the White House.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

President Donald Trump has so far appointed fewer women as federal judges than any president since Ronald Reagan. In the Senate confirmation hearings now underway for Amy Coney Barrett, Republican senators have repeatedly...

Read more: Amy Coney Barrett may be the next woman on the Supreme Court – but does a nominee's gender matter?

What is HIPAA? 5 questions answered about the medical privacy law that protects Trump's test results and yours

  • Written by Margaret Riley, Professor of Law, Public Health Sciences, and Public Policy, University of Virginia
imageDoctors can share your medical information, with your permission.sturti/E+ via Getty Images

When President Trump was hospitalized with COVID-19, his doctor pointed to “HIPAA rules and regulations” as the reason he couldn’t speak more freely about Trump’s condition. HIPAA is a medical privacy law, but people often...

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How the needs of monks and empire builders helped mold the modern-day office

  • Written by Nicole Kay Peterson, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
imageThe East India House, 1928. From 'A History of Lloyd's,' by Charles Wright and C. Ernest Fayle. Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1928P. hoto by The Print Collector/Getty Images

The coronavirus pandemic has forced most people to create an office space of their own – whether by devoting a room in our homes for work, sitting socially...

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Political bias in media doesn't threaten democracy — other, less visible biases do

  • Written by Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
imagePeople see bias in the stories that favor the other party, but they tend not to see bias in stories favoring their own party. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Charges of media bias – that “the media” are trying to brainwash Americans by feeding the public only one side of every issue – have become as common as...

Read more: Political bias in media doesn't threaten democracy — other, less visible biases do

As few as 1 in 10 homeless people vote in elections – here's why

  • Written by Dora Kingsley Vertenten, Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
imageAmerican citizens, even homeless ones, still have the right to vote.AP Photo/Ben Margot

In a year in which every vote – and every voter – is under scrutiny, many homeless people will have a very hard time casting their ballots.

That’s the conclusion from a review of how state voting laws, regulations and practices affect homeless...

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Until a coronavirus vaccine is ready, pneumonia vaccines may reduce deaths from COVID-19

  • Written by Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University
imageVaccination rates may be tied to rates of COVID-19.Marko Geber/Getty Images

The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable.

There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias....

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279,700 extra deaths in the US so far in this pandemic year

  • Written by Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Administration, Virginia Tech
imageA girl views the body of her father, who died of COVID-19, while mourners who can't visit in person are onscreen.Joe Raedle/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesimageThe Conversation, CC BY-ND

The number of deaths in the United States through September 2020 is at least 10% and likely 13% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never...

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Dementia deaths rise during the summer of COVID, leading to concern

  • Written by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, Associate Professor Medicine, Geriatrics, University of Virginia
imageIn the time of coronavirus, people with dementia and their caregivers need more support than ever.Westend61 via Getty Images

Deaths from dementia during the summer of 2020 are nearly 20% higher than the number of dementia-related deaths during that time in previous years, and experts don’t yet know why. An estimated 61,000 people have died...

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How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

  • Written by Nükhet Varlik, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
imageThe COVID-19 new normal might be here for quite some time.SolStock/E+ via Getty Images

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and...

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  3. Schadenfreude over Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis was more about cosmic justice than joy in another’s pain
  4. Schools often fail to identify gifted and talented students – especially if they are Black, Latino or Native American
  5. What happens when senators die or are incapacitated?
  6. 3 ways to get your point across while wearing a mask – tips from an award-winning speech coach
  7. Dominance or democracy? Authoritarian white masculinity as Trump and Pence's political debate strategy
  8. Restoring California's forests to reduce wildfire risks will take time, billions of dollars and a broad commitment
  9. Political leaders’ views on COVID-19 risk are highly infectious in a polarized nation – we see the same with climate change
  10. What's the best way to get out the vote in a pandemic?
  11. Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of super-rich donors
  12. Pandemic presents an opportunity for small liberal arts colleges to change
  13. Appealing to evangelicals, Trump uses religious words and references to God at a higher rate than previous presidents
  14. Will it be a 'V' or a 'K'? The many shapes of recessions and recoveries
  15. Yes, more and more young adults are living with their parents – but is that necessarily bad?
  16. Getting kids – and their caregivers – to practice STEM at home
  17. Plot to kidnap Michigan's governor grew from the militia movement's toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths
  18. Why males may have a worse response to COVID-19
  19. Packing the Court: Amid national crises, Lincoln and his Republicans remade the Supreme Court to fit their agenda
  20. Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of Native land
  21. Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr. have long talked of conspiracies against God's chosen – those ideas are finding resonance today
  22. As COVID-19 cases rise again, how will the US respond? Here's what states have learned so far
  23. Teachers play a critical role in shaping girls' future as coders
  24. Economists are more like storytellers than scientists – don't let the Nobel for 'economic sciences' fool you
  25. Remembering Mario Molina, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who pushed Mexico on clean energy -- and, recently, face masks
  26. Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict
  27. Lessons from embedding with the Michigan militia – 5 questions answered about the group allegedly plotting to kidnap a governor
  28. Workers can expect sympathy from Amy Coney Barrett – as long as they don’t bring a class action to defend their rights
  29. Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them home
  30. Pandemic threatens food security for many college students
  31. How Congress could decide the 2020 election
  32. Doing good may make people look better
  33. What you – and doctors – should watch for if you have COVID-19
  34. In a battle of AI versus AI, researchers are preparing for the coming wave of deepfake propaganda
  35. More penises are appearing on TV and in film – but why are nearly all of them prosthetic?
  36. PFAS 'forever chemicals' are widespread and threaten human health – here's a strategy for protecting the public
  37. 'Namaste' es el saludo perfecto para la pandemia
  38. Americans aren't worried about white nationalism in the military – because they don't know it's there
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  40. Being outdoors doesn’t mean you're safe from COVID-19 – a White House event showed what not to do
  41. There's nothing unusual about early voting – it's been done since the founding of the republic
  42. Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and 'peacemaker in a hostile world'
  43. Experiencing physical pain can cause you to overspend
  44. Trump and McConnell's mostly white male judges buck 30-year trend of increasing diversity on the courts
  45. Do sports teams’ sustainability efforts matter to fans?
  46. Harris and Pence dodge tough questions in VP debate – experts react
  47. Nobel Prize for chemistry honors exquisitely precise gene-editing technique, CRISPR – a gene engineer explains how it works
  48. Nobel Prize for CRISPR honors two great scientists – and leaves out many others
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  50. 'What goes around comes around,' or what Greek mythology says about Donald Trump