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Want to stop the COVID-19 stress meltdown? Train your brain

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
imageToday's high-stress environment is an opportunity to reset how our brains deal with stressful situations.CasarsaGuru/iStock

Let’s face it: We’re all under stress right now. The uncertainty and constant health threats surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have upended our lives.

We may need two vaccines: one to protect us from the...

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Could pressure for COVID-19 drugs lead the FDA to lower its standards?

  • Written by Leigh Turner, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, & College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
imageLaboratories around the world are working round the clock to find treatments or a vaccine for COVID-19.Getty Images / Kena Betancur

Given the death, suffering, social disruption and economic devastation caused by COVID-19, there is an urgent need to quickly develop therapies to treat this disease and prevent the spread of the virus.

But the Food and...

Read more: Could pressure for COVID-19 drugs lead the FDA to lower its standards?

The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of time

  • Written by Philip Gable, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
imageTime is fixed. Our grasp of it? Not so much.bestdesigns via Getty Images

Think back to life before stay-at-home orders. Does it feel like just yesterday? Or does it seem like ages ago – like some distant era?

Of course, time is precise. It takes 23.9 hours for the Earth to make one rotation on its axis. But that’s not how we experience...

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Cuba's clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution

  • Written by Paul Bierman, Professor of Geology and Natural Resources and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont
imageAniel Arruebarenna, a team member from the Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos, prepares to collect flow measurements.Joshua Brown/University of Vermont, CC BY-ND

For most of the past 60 years, the United States and Cuba have had very limited diplomatic ties. President Barack Obama started the process of normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations,...

Read more: Cuba's clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution

How the US government sold the Peace Corps to the American public

  • Written by Wendy Melillo, Associate Professor, American University School of Communication
imagePresident John F. Kennnedy personally bid the first Peace Corps volunteers farewell.AP Photo/William J. Smith

The Peace Corps, a service organization run by the U.S. government that dispatches volunteers to foreign countries, is on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in its nearly 60-year history, none of its volunteers is...

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Indian philosophy helps us see clearly, act wisely in an interconnected world

  • Written by Matthew MacKenzie, Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair, Colorado State University
imageKrishna the charioteer guiding Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To say the world today is interconnected is a cliché.

Never before have so many people been linked by their activities and consequences. But knowing how to think and act as a citizen of this small world is no easy matter.

As...

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Are religious communities reviving the revival? In the US, outdoor worship has a long tradition

  • Written by Jeffrey Wheatley, Instructor, of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Iowa State University
imageA pastor leads a prayer at an outdoor Easter service.AP Photo/Chris O'Meara

Religious communities have been forced to find alternative ways to worship together during the coronavirus pandemic. For some that has meant going online, but others have turned to a distinctly non-digital practice steeped in this history of the American religious...

Read more: Are religious communities reviving the revival? In the US, outdoor worship has a long tradition

Militias evaluate beliefs, action as president threatens soldiers in the streets

  • Written by Amy Cooter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Vanderbilt University
imageMembers of militia groups demonstrate in Virginia in January 2020.Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images

So-called “militias” and “patriot groups” have different beliefs and viewpoints, but most of these citizen-focused organizations share a concern about government infringement on individual liberties.

In the wake of George...

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What – or who – is antifa?

  • Written by Stanislav Vysotsky, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
imageA police officer pushes an antifa demonstrator out of the way during a 2019 protest in Washington, D.C.Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

The movement called “antifa” gets its name from a short form of “anti-fascist,” which is about the only thing its members agree on.

President Donald Trump and some...

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COVID-19's deadliness for men is revealing why researchers should have been studying immune system sex differences years ago

  • Written by Adam Moeser, Matilda R. Wilson Endowed Chair, Associate Professor of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University
imageReports show that the mortality rate among men with COVID-19 is higher than women. Marco Mantovani/Getty Images

When it comes to surviving critical cases of COVID-19, it appears that men draw the short straw.

Initial reports from China revealed the early evidence of increased male mortality associated with COVID. According to the Global Health...

Read more: COVID-19's deadliness for men is revealing why researchers should have been studying immune system...

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  3. Supreme Court phoning it in means better arguments, more public engagement
  4. Scientific fieldwork 'caught in the middle' of US-Mexico border tensions
  5. Workplaces are turning to devices to monitor social distancing, but does the tech respect privacy?
  6. What we can learn about isolation from prison artists
  7. Using the military to quash protests can erode democracy – as Latin America well knows
  8. Unicorn Riot’s protest coverage recalls long history of grassroots video production
  9. 19 facts about the 19th Amendment on its 100th anniversary
  10. Fear of needles could be a hurdle to COVID-19 vaccination, but here are ways to overcome it
  11. Star player who expressed interest in going to an HBCU may shake up how athletes select a college
  12. Vibrators had a long history as medical quackery before feminists rebranded them as sex toys
  13. 2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America
  14. The good-guy image police present to students often clashes with students' reality
  15. Video: A place for people to pray and birds to sing
  16. Trump's use of religion follows playbook of authoritarian-leaning leaders the world over
  17. Venezuelan migrants face crime, conflict and coronavirus at Colombia’s closed border
  18. Minneapolis' 'long, hot summer' of '67 – and the parallels to today's protests over police brutality
  19. Why are white supremacists protesting the deaths of black people?
  20. How to be as safe as possible in your house of worship
  21. Summer visitors to American parks choose safety first over freedom to roam
  22. A window into the hearts and minds of billionaire donors
  23. What goes into the toilet doesn’t always stay there, and other coronavirus risks in public bathrooms
  24. Science of 'Seinfeld'
  25. A few superspreaders transmit the majority of coronavirus cases
  26. Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381
  27. It's time to rethink the disrupted US food system from the ground up
  28. Rain plays a surprising role in making some restored prairies healthier than others
  29. A new hybrid fungus is found in hospitals and linked to lung disease
  30. What is tear gas?
  31. Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction
  32. A Lyme disease vaccine doesn't exist, but a yearly antibody shot shows promise at preventing infection
  33. We may be safer now from coronavirus than we were three months ago, but we're not totally safe
  34. A justification for unrest? Look no further than the Bible and the Founding Fathers
  35. How to protest during a pandemic and still keep everyone safe from coronavirus: 6 questions answered
  36. Why Hong Kong's untold history of protecting refugee rights matters now in its struggle with China
  37. Stripping voting rights from felons is about politics, not punishment
  38. Where are the African American leaders?
  39. COVID-19, smell and taste – how is COVID-19 different from other respiratory diseases?
  40. Here's a new way to do study abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
  41. Scientists tap the world's most powerful computers in the race to understand and stop the coronavirus
  42. It can't happen here – and then it did
  43. Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun?
  44. Low-wage essential workers get less protection against coronavirus – and less information about how it spreads
  45. California's early shelter-in-place order may have saved 1,600 lives in one month
  46. Parasitic worms in your shellfish lead a creepy but popular lifestyle
  47. Physicists hunt for room-temperature superconductors that could revolutionize the world's energy system
  48. Kids need physical education – even when they can't get it at school
  49. New Jersey's small, networked dairy farms are a model for a more resilient food system
  50. Doctors can't treat COVID-19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health