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Cool touch shirts can make you feel cool on hot days, but which materials work best?

  • Written by Susan L. Sokolowski, Director & Associate Professor of Sports Product Design, University of Oregon
imageThe material that your shirt is made of plays a big role in how hot you feel. RUNSTUDIO/Photodisc via Getty Images

It’s another hot and sweaty summer day, and you see an ad for a sports T-shirt claiming it is made out of a material that will instantly make your skin feel cool. Intriguing, but does it work, and if so, how?

Companies have...

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Trump accepts the nomination from the White House lawn, portraying a nation in crisis and himself as its hero

  • Written by Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University
imageTrump accepts the nomination from the South Lawn of the White House.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump delivered his second Republican Party acceptance speech from the White House on Aug. 27, shattering the norm that presidents do not campaign at the public’s expense, and describing a nation in crisis.

Trump spoke of internal enemies intent on...

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Why Americans are buying more guns than ever

  • Written by Aimee Huff, Assistant Professor, Marketing, Oregon State University
imageGun stores in the U.S. are reporting a surge in sales of firearms.George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Americans have been on a record gun-buying spree in recent months.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice, the gun industry’s trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, estimates that gun sales from March...

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Así es como la moda ha servido históricamente para el distanciamiento social

  • Written by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
imageLa crinolina de la era victoriana se utilizó para crear una barrera entre los géneros.Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images

Mientras el mundo lidia con la pandemia de COVID-19, las palabras distanciamiento social se han puesto de moda en estos tiempos extraños.

En lugar de almacenar alimentos o ir al hospital, las autoridades...

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Religious tourism has been hit hard in the pandemic as sites close and pilgrimages are put on hold

  • Written by Faizan Ali, Assistant Professor of Hospitality and Tourism, University of South Florida
imageOnly a handful of tourists at the usually busy St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images

Religious tourism is among the oldest forms of planned travel and to this day remains a huge industry.

About 300 to 330 million tourists visit the world’s key religious sites every year, according to a 2017 estimate. Some 600...

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FDA is departing from long-standing procedures to deal with public health crises, and this may foreshadow problems for COVID-19 vaccines

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
imageFDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, right, and President Trump at a Coronavirus Task Force meeting March 19, 2020.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA had issued emergency use authorization for investigational convalescent plasma...

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The white supremacist origins of modern marriage advice

  • Written by Jane Ward, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
imageAt the turn of the 20th century, marriage was assumed to be an exercise in mutual misery.Getty Images

When I was conducting research for my new book on the destructive aspects of modern heterosexual relationships, I started looking into the archives of early 20th-century books about courtship and marriage written by physicians and sexologists.

In...

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Trump's foreign policy is still 'America First' – what does that mean, exactly?

  • Written by Klaus W. Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor; Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
imageAs president, Trump has cultivated close relations with autocratic leaders while distancing the U.S. from its traditional allies in Europe and Asia. Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images

At the Republican National Convention, supporters of President Trump’s reelection bid have celebrated his attempts to build a Mexico border...

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Abolishing child labor took the specter of 'white slavery' and the job market's near collapse during the Great Depression

  • Written by Betsy Wood, Instructor of American History, Hudson County Community College
imageThese boys working in a Georgia cotton mill were photographed in 1909. Lewis Hine/The National Child Labor Committee Collection via Library of Congress

Today, U.S. laws and regulations bar kids under the age of 14 from working in most industries. Children under 17 may not work more than three hours on school days, for example.

Ever wonder where...

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Jerry Falwell Jr. will leave behind a very different legacy from his influential father

  • Written by Richard Flory, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageJerry Falwell Jr., right, during commencement ceremonies at Liberty University in May 2017.AP Photo/Steve Helber

Jerry Falwell Jr., son and namesake of the founder of the evangelical Moral Majority movement, has resigned as president of Liberty University.

The resignation followed the Liberty board’s decision to put him on an “indefinite...

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