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When confronting the coronavirus, tough isn't enough

  • Written by Susanna Lee, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
You can't threaten or humiliate a virus.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When Donald Trump was running for president, he cultivated a tough-guy persona: tough on immigration, tough on crime and tough on America’s adversaries.

He never admitted having made a single mistake, nor did he ever apologize. Question him and face his...

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Take it from Pluto the Schnauzer: Comedy will help us through the coronavirus crisis

  • Written by Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
What's got four legs, a wet nose and can help us laugh through the crisis?Facebook

It took an adorable talking dog to shake me from my gloom.

Ten days into the Great Pandemic Shutdown of 2020, I was still scrolling my phone for increasingly grim statistics, epidemiological forecast models and horror stories from the medical front lines of COVID-19.

T...

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Porch piracy: Here's what we learned after watching hours of YouTube videos showing packages being pilfered from homes

  • Written by Ben Stickle, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Middle Tennessee State University
The view from the porch. AP Photo/Robert Bumsted

Deliveries of groceries and packages are soaring as physical retailers close their doors and tens of millions of Americans “shelter in place.” Moreover, the need for social distancing may encourage more delivery workers to leave packages unattended on porches rather than risk an...

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4 weird things that happen when you videoconference

  • Written by Norm Friesen, Professor of Educational Technology, Boise State University
Eye contact gets warped in the virtual world.Caroline Purser/Getty Images

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces many U.S. colleges and universities to move their courses online, connecting online via video is now having its moment.

Family, friends, neighbors and even TV talk-show hosts are now meeting and broadcasting from home. Meanwhile, Microsoft,...

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'We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days'

  • Written by W. Graham Carlos, Chief of Medicine for Eskenazi Health; Bicentennial Professor for Indiana University, Pulmonary & Critical Care Attending Physician, Indiana University School of Medicine
Paper bags hold N95 masks that staff in the Eskenazi Hospital COVID-19 ICU need to save for reuse.W. Graham Carlos/Indiana University, Author provided

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here.

Brown paper bags line...

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COVID-19 could lead to an epidemic of clinical depression

  • Written by Jonathan Kanter, Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington

Isolation, social distancing and extreme changes in daily life are hard now, but the United States also needs to be prepared for what may be an epidemic of clinical depression because of COVID-19.

We are clinical psychological scientists at the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection. We study human...

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COVID-19 could lead to an epidemic of clinical depression, and the health care system isn't ready for that, either

  • Written by Jonathan Kanter, Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington

Isolation, social distancing and extreme changes in daily life are hard now, but the United States also needs to be prepared for what may be an epidemic of clinical depression because of COVID-19.

We are clinical psychological scientists at the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection. We study human...

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The US census has its flaws – but so has every attempt to count people throughout history

  • Written by Teresa A. Sullivan, Interim Provost, Michigan State University and President Emerita and University Professor, University of Virginia
Francis William Edmonds' 'Taking the Census,' from 1854. Heritage Art/Heritage Images/Getty Images

A few days ago, I completed my 2020 U.S. census form.

My latest book details the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 census. By April 1, every residence in the United States will be contacted, usually by mail, to answer only seven questions....

Read more: The US census has its flaws – but so has every attempt to count people throughout history

The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it

  • Written by George Wittemyer, Associate professor of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
Government officers seize civets in a wildlife market in Guangzhou, China to prevent the spread of the SARS disease, Jan. 5, 2004.Dustin Shum/South China Morning Post via Getty Images

COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. About 75% of emerging infectious diseases are...

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COVID-19 could shrink the earnings of 2020 graduates for years to come

  • Written by Celeste K. Carruthers, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee
Jobs could be hard to keep or find for quite a while.Chuck Savage/Getty Images

Before the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses and schools to close, high school and college graduates from the Class of 2020 could have expected to graduate into the strongest job market in 50 years.

Now, due to massive economic fallout, the Class of 2020 is at risk...

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