NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

The Conversation

Don't want federal agents in your city or town? Then protect federal property

  • Written by Frank V. Zerunyan, Professor of the Practice of Governance, University of Southern California
imageDuring a protest, federal police officials stand inside a fence at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, July 25, 2020. (Photo by Ankur Dholakia / AFP via Getty Images

I recently visited Portland, Oregon, and saw the destruction around the federal courthouse there – walls defaced with graffiti, fences vandalized, and the remains of...

Read more: Don't want federal agents in your city or town? Then protect federal property

Video: What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means

  • Written by Melissa Hawkins, Professor of Public Health, Director of Public Health Scholars Program, American University
imageHealth care workers use a nasal swab to test a person for COVID-19 in Pembroke Park, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images News

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true number of people infected by COVID-19 could be six to 24 times higher than the...

Read more: Video: What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means

Pompeo's plan for a hierarchy of human rights could serve to undermine them all – including religious freedom

  • Written by Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
imageCritics have accused Mike Pompeo of sculpting policy out of his religious beliefs.Leah Millis/AFP via Getty Images

In pushing for religion to be given more prominence in U.S. foreign policy concerns, could Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be acting in bad faith?

That’s what many human rights groups believe. In a letter dated July 30, a coalition...

Read more: Pompeo's plan for a hierarchy of human rights could serve to undermine them all – including...

How gene editing a person's brain cells could be used to curb the opioid epidemic

  • Written by Craig W. Stevens, Professor of Pharmacology, Oklahoma State University
imageCRISPR/Cas is a tool for editing genes.STEVEN MCDOWELL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic cripples the economy and kills hundreds of people each day, there is another epidemic that continues to kill tens of thousands of people each year through opioid drug overdose.

Opioid analgesic drugs, like morphine and...

Read more: How gene editing a person's brain cells could be used to curb the opioid epidemic

Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint

  • Written by Amna Khalid, Associate Professor of History, Carleton College
imageDiversity and inclusion training is often ineffective and short-lived. Image Source/GettyImages

U.S. colleges and universities will be embracing diversity training with renewed vigor this fall.

In response to the killing of George Floyd, the massive Black Lives Matter protests and pressure from students, dozens of colleges and universities have made...

Read more: Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint

Fight for economic equality is as old as America itself

  • Written by Daniel Mandell, Professor of History, Truman State University
imageIn a 1775 cartoon, a British cartoonist mocks how wealthy elites were compelled by ordinary Americans to respect trade and price regulations.Philip Dawe/Wikimedia Commons

Americans are increasingly worried about the rising tide of economic inequality, as fewer control more wealth. For the origins of these concerns, commentators usually point to the...

Read more: Fight for economic equality is as old as America itself

Contaminación, el silencioso enemigo de la CDMX en la lucha contra el COVID-19

  • Written by Elena Delavega, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis
imageLa Ciudad de Mexico, 20 de mayo, 2018. AP Photo/Marco Ugarte

La Ciudad de México es un tazón de polvo, una megalópolis contaminada donde la respiración es difícil y la ropa recién lavada colgada para secarse se pone rígida por la noche. Incluso antes de que la pandemia de COVID-19 comenzara a golpear...

Read more: Contaminación, el silencioso enemigo de la CDMX en la lucha contra el COVID-19

¿Crees que eres malo para las matemáticas? Puedes sufrir un 'trauma matemático'

  • Written by Jennifer Ruef, Assistant Professor of Education Studies, University of Oregon
imageHasta los profesores de matemáticas aveces sufren un miedo debilitante a equivocarse con la materia.Robert Kneschke / EyeEm / Getty Images

Enseño a la gente a enseñar matemáticas, y llevo 30 años trabajando en este campo. A lo largo de esas décadas, he conocido a muchas personas que sufren diversos grados...

Read more: ¿Crees que eres malo para las matemáticas? Puedes sufrir un 'trauma matemático'

The loneliness of social isolation can affect your brain and raise dementia risk in older adults

  • Written by Karra Harrington, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Clinical Psychologist, Pennsylvania State University
imageIn healthy older people, loneliness has a pattern of stress response similar to that of people who are under chronic stress. Justin Paget via Getty Images

Physical pain is unpleasant, yet it’s vital for survival because it’s a warning that your body is in danger. It tells you to take your hand off a hot burner or to see a doctor about...

Read more: The loneliness of social isolation can affect your brain and raise dementia risk in older adults

Yes, most workers can collect more in coronavirus unemployment than they earn – but that doesn't mean Congress should cut the $600 supplement

  • Written by David Salkever, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe $600 federal jobless benefit expired on July 31. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Americans who lost their jobs because of the pandemic had been getting a US$600 bump on top of state benefits in their weekly unemployment checks since March. That ended on July 31, and lawmakers are debating whether to extend the program and if so by how much.

Senate...

Read more: Yes, most workers can collect more in coronavirus unemployment than they earn – but that doesn't...

More Articles ...

  1. The raging competition for medical supplies is not a game, but game theory can help
  2. 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican is providing moral guidance on nuclear weapons
  3. Political conventions today are for partying and pageantry, not picking nominees
  4. Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was king
  5. Making the most of a tree epidemic
  6. Deciding how and whether to reopen schools is complex -- here's how rocket scientists would develop a plan
  7. ¿Qué medicamentos y tratamientos se ha demostrado que funcionan y cuáles no para la COVID-19?
  8. What literature can tell us about people's struggle with their faith during a pandemic
  9. 3 ways to promote social skills in homebound kids
  10. Millions of America's working poor may lose out on key anti-poverty tax credit because of the pandemic
  11. Wildfires can poison drinking water – here's how communities can be better prepared
  12. International trade has cost Americans millions of jobs. Investing in communities might offset those losses
  13. How a peace conference's failures a century ago set the stage for today's anti-racist uprisings
  14. How the failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings
  15. Obamacare's unexpected bonus: How the Affordable Care Act is helping middle-aged Americans during the pandemic
  16. Video: Who controls pandemic data?
  17. ¿Qué puede aprender la cadena de suministro médica de la industria de la moda?
  18. Timeouts improve kids' behavior if you do them the right way
  19. Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk of reopening classrooms
  20. Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles
  21. Why a Canadian hockey team's name recalls US Civil War destruction
  22. One 19th-century artist's effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19
  23. Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted
  24. How California’s COVID-19 surge widens health inequalities for Black, Latino and low-income residents
  25. Hitler en casa: cómo la máquina de relaciones públicas nazi reinventó la imagen doméstica del Führer y engañó al mundo
  26. Test positivity rate: How this one figure explains that the US isn't doing enough testing yet
  27. Energy is a basic need, and many Americans are struggling to afford it in the COVID-19 recession
  28. The importance of blood tests for Alzheimer's: 2 neuroscientists explain the recent findings
  29. Enslaved people's health was ignored from the country's beginning, laying the groundwork for today's health disparities
  30. 5 takeaways from MacKenzie Scott's $1.7 billion in support for social justice causes
  31. Next COVID casualty: Cities hit hard by the pandemic face bankruptcy
  32. Don't blame cats for destroying wildlife – shaky logic is leading to moral panic
  33. Business major fails to attract Latino students
  34. Why is Eid celebrated twice a year and how has coronavirus changed the festival?
  35. Private browsing: What it does – and doesn't do – to shield you from prying eyes on the web
  36. Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex have a long history
  37. Militias' warning of excessive federal power comes true – but where are they?
  38. Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more
  39. ¿Qué son los aerosoles y por qué son tan peligrosos ante la pandemia de COVID-19?
  40. NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
  41. As the NBA and MLB resume, how might empty seats influence player performances?
  42. African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely than whites to get treatment
  43. Landlord-leaning eviction courts are about to make the coronavirus housing crisis a lot worse
  44. The gender pay gap that no one is paying attention to
  45. Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time – understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread
  46. What is the Islamic weekend?
  47. Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured
  48. Kids need to wear masks when they go to school in person, and parents can help them get the hang of that
  49. 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
  50. ¿Te imaginas la vida sin aguacate? Estos son los momentos en la historia en que pudo desaparecer