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5 reasons police officers should have college degrees

  • Written by Leana Bouffard, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University
imageDoes college hold the answer to police violence?Pacific Press/Getty Images

Following several deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order on June 16 that calls for increased training and credentialing to reduce the use of excessive force by police.

The order did not mention the need for...

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The Supreme Court decision to grant protections to LGBT workers is an important expansion of the Civil Rights Act

  • Written by Julie Manning Magid, Professor of Business Law, IUPUI
imageA man waves a rainbow flag as he rides by the Supreme Court on June 15, 2020.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

No federal law barring discrimination against LGBT workers in hiring, promoting and firing existed in this country until this week.

Although some may have believed LGBT individuals were protected from discrimination following the Supreme...

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Conservation could create jobs post-pandemic

  • Written by Heidi Peltier, Research Professor in Political Science; Faculty Research Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
imagePeople have been rediscovering nature during the pandemic, but it's not just good for public heath. Conservation also creates jobs.Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order making it easier for pipeline projects and other oil and gas development to progress, claiming environmental regulations cause...

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What is the 'zero gravity' that people experience in the vomit comet or space flight?

  • Written by Steven Collicott, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
imagePeople in a special airplane flight get to float like there is no gravity – just like astronautsSteven Collicottimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

In the zero-gravity airplanes or vomit comet, why does stuff behave like...

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Here's why some people are willing to challenge bullying, corruption and bad behavior, even at personal risk

  • Written by Catherine A. Sanderson, Poler Family Professor and Chair of Psychology, Amherst College
imageCertain characteristics mean moral rebels are willing to not go with the flow.Francesco Carta fotografo/Moment via Getty Images

Utah Senator Mitt Romney voted in February to convict President Donald Trump on the charge of abuse of power, becoming the first senator ever to vote against his own party’s president in an impeachment trial.

Two...

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Tracing homophobia in South Korea's coronavirus surveillance program

  • Written by Timothy Gitzen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Hong Kong
imageKorean health workers offer coronavirus testing in the Itaewon nightlife district of Seoul.Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images

Many people around the world have looked to South Korea’s so-called “democratic” response to the coronavirus pandemic as a template for other nations to follow. That response is often contrasted with...

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Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it's starting to show

  • Written by David J. Peters, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Iowa State University
imageWorkers wait to enter a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Indiana. The plant had been closed after nearly 900 employees tested positive for the coronavirus.AP Photo/Michael Conroy

Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year. Few rural cases were reported, and attention focused on the surge of i...

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Dead white men get their say in court as Virginia tries to remove Robert E. Lee statues

  • Written by Allison Anna Tait, Professor of Law, University of Richmond
imageRichmond's towering Robert E. Lee statue is transformed by protests following the killing of George Floyd. Is removal next?John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The latest chapter in the United States’ ongoing debate about Confederate monuments involves some unexpected opinions: those of long-dead land donors.

Responding to sustai...

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Can you visit your dad safely on Father's Day? A doctor gives you a checklist

  • Written by Claudia Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Michigan State University
imageThere's nothing quite like the joy of being with one's father -- and for dads being with their kids.eff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As a physician, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Father’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my...

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How Hemingway felt about fatherhood

  • Written by Verna Kale, Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
imageHemingway and his eldest son, Bumby, pose in Havana harbor in 1933.Collection of David Meeker, Author provided

Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?

In my role as Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, I spend my time investigating the approximately 6,000 letters sent by Hemingway,...

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  7. How 'vaccine nationalism' could block vulnerable populations' access to COVID-19 vaccines
  8. How the coronavirus escapes an evolutionary trade-off that helps keep other pathogens in check
  9. Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years
  10. What the Supreme Court's decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans
  11. US giving reached a near-record $450 billion in 2019 as the role of foundations kept up gradual growth
  12. Supreme Court expands workplace equality to LGBTQ employees, but questions remain
  13. How doctors' fears of getting COVID-19 can mean losing the healing power of touch: One physician's story
  14. Nondiscrimination against LGBT individuals isn't just the law – it helps organizations succeed
  15. Ready to see your doctor but scared to go? Here are some guidelines
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  18. Herd immunity won’t solve our COVID-19 problem
  19. 'Normal' human body temperature is a range around 98.6 F – a physiologist explains why
  20. Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the red planet's geology
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  22. 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today
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  24. What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe
  25. A pragmatist philosopher's view of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic
  26. Uruguay quietly beats coronavirus, distinguishing itself from its South American neighbors – yet again
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  29. Coronavirus shows how ageism is harmful to health of older adults
  30. No justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George Floyd protesters
  31. Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration – and some last a lifetime
  32. Why hairdressers, gyms and the Trump campaign are asking people to sign COVID-19 waivers
  33. What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history – and the human response to them
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  36. Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
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  38. Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession
  39. Churchgoers aren't able to lift every voice and sing during the pandemic – here's why that matters
  40. A short history of black women and police violence
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  42. High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
  43. Students demand removal of 'mild racist' from Georgia landscape
  44. China's efforts to win hearts and minds with aid and investment may make all the difference if there's a cold war with the US
  45. How DC Mayor Bowser used graffiti to protect public space
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  47. What colleges and universities can do to improve police-community relations
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