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Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing through

  • Written by Kevin T. Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
imageHurricane Harvey showed the racial disparities in flood damage outside Houston's 100-year flood zones.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

When hurricanes and other extreme storms unleash downpours like Tropical Storm Beta has been doing in the South, the floodwater doesn’t always stay within the government’s flood risk zones.

New research suggests...

Read more: Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing through

In death, as in life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg balanced being American and Jewish

  • Written by Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
imageNo lengthy viewing of the body, but no quick burial either.Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images

As news of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spread on the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, a common question heard in discussions among American Jews was: “When will she be buried?”

As a longtime scholar of American Jewish life,...

Read more: In death, as in life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg balanced being American and Jewish

Los trolls políticos se adaptan: crean nuevo material para engañar y confundir más a la audiencia

  • Written by Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
imageLos trolls se ponen creativos con su decepción electoral.Planet Flem/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

Los trolls de Twitter patrocinados por Rusia, que explotaron tan agresivamente las redes sociales para influir en las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses de 2016, no se detuvieron cuando Donald Trump fue elegido presidente.

Incluso...

Read more: Los trolls políticos se adaptan: crean nuevo material para engañar y confundir más a la audiencia

The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year's key Senate races

  • Written by Jo-Ellen Pozner, Assistant Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University
imageConservative suit? Check. Rep tie? Check. Mitch McConnell looks every inch a senator.Scott Applewhite/Getty

When Richard Nixon praised his wife’s “respectable Republican cloth coat” in his 1952 Checkers speech, her clothes were not the point.

Rather, Nixon drew a direct line from a coat to the values he proclaimed –...

Read more: The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year's key Senate races

The neural cruelty of captivity: Keeping large mammals in zoos and aquariums damages their brains

  • Written by Bob Jacobs, Professor of Neuroscience, Colorado College
imagePhotograph of an elephant brain. Dr. Paul Manger/ University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, CC BY-ND

Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years, often in chains, with no stimulation. In the wild, elephants live in herds, with close family ties. Hanako was...

Read more: The neural cruelty of captivity: Keeping large mammals in zoos and aquariums damages their brains

Which of Trump's Supreme Court choices might be most reliably conservative?

  • Written by Matthew Dahl, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Notre Dame
imagePresident Donald Trump has said he will name a Supreme Court nominee in the coming days.AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

As President Donald Trump looks to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he and other Republicans want to secure a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest court...

Read more: Which of Trump's Supreme Court choices might be most reliably conservative?

What makes hurricanes stall, and why is it so hard to forecast?

  • Written by Kimberly Wood, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University
imageWhen Hurricane Dorian, seen here from the International Space Station, stalled over the Bahamas in September 2019, its winds, rain and storm surge devastated the islands.NASA

A lot can go wrong when hurricanes stall. Their destructive winds last longer. The storm surge can stay high. And the rain keeps falling.

During Hurricane Sally, Naval Air...

Read more: What makes hurricanes stall, and why is it so hard to forecast?

What makes hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast?

  • Written by Kimberly Wood, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University
imageWhen Hurricane Dorian, seen here from the International Space Station, stalled over the Bahamas in September 2019, its winds, rain and storm surge devastated the islands.NASA

A lot can go wrong when hurricanes stall. Their destructive winds last longer. The storm surge can stay high. And the rain keeps falling.

During Hurricane Sally, Naval Air...

Read more: What makes hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast?

Homes in Black and Latino neighborhoods still undervalued 50 years after US banned using race in real estate appraisals

  • Written by Junia Howell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
imageReal estate prices are still related to a neighborhood's racial composition, despite laws prohibiting the explicit consideration of race in appraisals. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

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

The big idea

Racial inequality in home values is greater today than it was 40 years ago, with...

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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

  • Written by Carson J Bruns, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
imageIn the not-too-distant future, tattoos could become medical diagnostic devices as well as body art.LightFieldStudios/iStock via Getty Images

In the sci-fi novel “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson, body art has evolved into “constantly shifting mediatronic tattoos” – in-skin displays powered by nanotech robopigments....

Read more: Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

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