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Online Christian pilgrimage: How a virtual tour to Lourdes follows a tradition of innovation

  • Written by Samuel L. Boyd, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
imagePeople wearing masks and social distancing at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes on May 30, 2020.Laurent Dart/AFP via Getty Images

The Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the first time in its 162-year existence the shrine was closed...

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Massive online open courses see exponential growth during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageWorkers are seeking credentials to get an edge in the job market.Ridofranz/GettyImages

Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, have seen a surge in enrollments since March.

Enrollment at Coursera – an online platform that offers MOOCs, has skyrocketed and was 640% higher from mid-March to mid-April than during the same period last year, growing...

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What are political parties' platforms – and do they matter?

  • Written by Marjorie Hershey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
imageAt the 2016 Democratic National Convention, a delegate holds up a copy of the Democratic Party Platform.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Political parties’ platforms – their statements of where they stand on issues – get little respect. President Donald Trump mused recently that he might shrink his party’s platform from 66 pages...

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How to make sure you're wearing your mask right

  • Written by Joy Pieper, Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
imageMake sure the bottom of the mask is pulled down over your chin so it covers your nose and mouth.Getty Images / andresr

Whether or not you agree with a mandate to wear a mask, many of us will do so during our daily business.

I am a professor of nursing at Purdue University, where a colleague and I teach a class detailing the history of health care...

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Low-wage service workers are facing new emotional hazards in the workplace during COVID-19

  • Written by Lola Loustaunau, Ph.D Candidate, University of Oregon
imageService workers are often tasked with enforcing company mask and social distancing policies. AP Photo/Nati Harnik

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

The big idea

Low-wage service workers increasingly are facing new physical and emotional hazards in the workplace as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to...

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Is telehealth as good as in-person care? A telehealth researcher explains how to get the most out of remote health care

  • Written by Jennifer A. Mallow, Associate Professor of Nursing, West Virginia University
imageTelehealth is booming like never before, and many patients and health care providers across the U.S. are using it for the first time. Geber86 / E+ via Getty Images

COVID-19 has led to a boom in telehealth, with some health care facilities seeing an increase in its use by as much as 8,000%.

This shift happened quickly and unexpectedly and has left...

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The Constitution doesn't have a problem with mask mandates

  • Written by John E. Finn, Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
imageA protester during an anti-mask rally on July 19 in Indianapolis, Indiana, against the mayor's mask order and the governor's extension of the state shutdown.Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Many public health professionalsand politicians are urging or requiring citizens to wear face masks to help slow the spread of the COVID-19...

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People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19

  • Written by Heather Schoenfeld, Associate Professor, Boston University
imageDade Correctional Institution where mentally ill prisoner Darren Rainey was locked in a shower stall and died in June 2012. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they were killed by law enforcement officers.

Not police...

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Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

  • Written by Cutler J Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Back in in 2018 – in the pre-pandemic world – about 5% of the U.S. workforce teleworked from home. That changed dramatically with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; by May 2020 that number had jumped to about 35%. Tech giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter announced plans to extend teleworking well into the fall and...

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How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them

  • Written by Bob Spires, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Richmond
imageClass is in session in Uruguay, one of the first countries in the Western Hemisphere to reopen its schools. AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

As American school officials debate when it will be safe for schoolchildren to return to classrooms, looking abroad may offer insights. Nearly every country in the world shuttered their schools early in the...

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  2. Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected
  3. Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be
  4. 'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president
  5. Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them
  6. Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research
  7. Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns
  8. Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled
  9. Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise
  10. Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong
  11. New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
  12. How Taiwanese death rituals have adapted for families living in the US
  13. With fewer cars on US streets, now is the time to reinvent roadways and how we use them
  14. ALS scientific breakthrough: Diabetes drug metformin shows promise in mouse study for a common type of ALS
  15. Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday
  16. In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat
  17. Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows
  18. COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here's why that matters
  19. How local governments can attract companies that will help keep their economies afloat during COVID-19
  20. Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an endearing story
  21. Mandatory face masks might lull people into taking more coronavirus risks
  22. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belonged to a long tradition of religious leaders in the civil rights struggle
  23. Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
  24. Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest – which is why soda taxes could help reduce gaping health inequalities
  25. The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
  26. To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap
  27. Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna's latest vaccine trials
  28. Why Congress can't curb Trump's power to commute Stone's sentence and pardon others
  29. Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas
  30. Pro-choice movement's big win at Supreme Court might really have been a loss
  31. How the coronavirus pandemic became Florida's perfect storm
  32. Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits
  33. Until teachers feel safe, widespread in-person K-12 schooling may prove impossible in US
  34. Contact tracing's long, turbulent history holds lessons for COVID-19
  35. Research on voting by mail says it's safe – from fraud and disease
  36. Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of corporate activism
  37. Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we still fecking using them today?
  38. Protestantism's troubling history with white supremacy in the US
  39. Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities
  40. How brains do what they do is more complex than what anatomy on its own suggests
  41. An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet
  42. Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
  43. A new anti-platelet drug shows potential for treating blood vessel clots in heart attacks, strokes and, possibly, COVID-19
  44. How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer
  45. The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes
  46. Personality can predict who's a rule-follower and who flouts COVID-19 social distancing guidelines
  47. The Fed's independence helped it save the US economy in 2008 – the CDC needs the same authority today
  48. With kids spending more waking hours on screens than ever, here's what parents need to worry about
  49. Kids' school schedules have never matched parents' work obligations and the pandemic is making things worse
  50. How effective does a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic? A new study has answers