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Weinstein jurors must differentiate between consent and compliance – which research shows isn't easy

  • Written by Vanessa K. Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University
The jury at the Weinstein trial will have to check their biases about consent.Aleutie/Shutterstock.com

Did the women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault consent to his sexual advances of their own free will, or were they coerced?

Jurors’ answers to this question will be critical in determining the outcome of Weinstein’s trial,...

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Large turnouts for Soleimani’s funeral in Iran carry powerful collective emotions – just as Americans saw during the colonial era

  • Written by G. Patrick O'Brien, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Ave Maria University
Coffins of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and others are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners.Majid Saeedi via Getty Images

Massive crowds took to the streets of Iranian cities to mourn the death of Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone in Iraq on Jan. 3.

State television reported “millions” of Iranians attended...

Read more: Large turnouts for Soleimani’s funeral in Iran carry powerful collective emotions – just as...

Killing of Soleimani evokes dark history of political assassinations in the formative days of Shiite Islam

  • Written by Deina Abdelkader, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Iranians publicly mourn the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani four days after he was killed in a US drone strike, Jan 7., 2020. Babek Jeddi/SOPA Images via Getty

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who promoted the religious and political influence of the Iranian regime across the Middle East with covert military operations, was an important figure in the Iranian...

Read more: Killing of Soleimani evokes dark history of political assassinations in the formative days of...

Why some public universities get to keep their donors secret

  • Written by Alexa Capeloto, Associate Professor of Journalism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The Charles Koch Foundation had a say in some GMU faculty hires. Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In April 2018, the public learned that George Mason University had let the Charles Koch Foundation have a say in the hiring and review of faculty. The revelation confirmed long-held suspicions that Virginia’s largest public university was...

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The made-up crisis behind the state takeover of Houston's public schools

  • Written by Domingo Morel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
The State of Texas is in a legal battle to seize power from the Houston public school board.Eakrin Rasadonyindee/Shutterstock.com

If the state of Texas had its way, the state would be in the process of taking over the Houston Independent School District.

But a judge temporarily blocked the takeover on Jan. 8, with the issue now set to be decided at...

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We're living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned

  • Written by Susanna Lee, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
'I want to produce such an impression of utter weariness and ennui that my readers will imagine the book could only have been written by a cretin,' Flaubert wrote.Photo by Nadar / ullstein bild via Getty Images

Are we all trapped in a live-action version of Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?

The Jan. 3 assassination of Iranian General...

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Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus

  • Written by Patricia L. Foster, Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
Projectile vomiting is common with norovirus.Elnur/Shutterstock.com

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade fever and, most alarming of all, projectile vomiting, which is an extremely effective way of spreading...

Read more: Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus

Why we are hard-wired to worry, and what we can do to calm down

  • Written by James Carmody, Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The everyday stressors of life can lead to worrisome thoughts. PR Image Factory

A new year brings both hopes and anxieties. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but worry that they won’t be, and imagine some of the things that might stand in the way. More broadly, we might worry about who’s going to win the...

Read more: Why we are hard-wired to worry, and what we can do to calm down

3D printing of body parts is coming fast – but regulations are not ready

  • Written by Dinusha Mendis, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law and Co-Director of the Jean Monet Centre of Excellence for European Intellectual Property and Information Rights, Bournemouth University
The technology of producing biological parts is advancing, raising new legal and regulatory questions.Philip Ezze, CC BY-SA

In the last few years, the use of 3D printing has exploded in medicine. Engineers and medical professionals now routinely 3D print prosthetic hands and surgical tools. But 3D printing has only just begun to transform the...

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Matching Vietnamese brides with Chinese men, marriage brokers find good business – and sometimes love

  • Written by Wei Li, Associate Professor of Sociology, Frostburg State University
A growing number of young Vietnamese women are marrying foreigners, mostly from China and South Korea. AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki

China has 24 million more men than women of marriageable age, putting some bachelors in a tough spot.

In rural areas of China, three decades of sex-selective abortions under the one-child policy, which ended in 2015, have...

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