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6 ways to build motivation to do your schoolwork now that you're forced to learn online at home

  • Written by Ryan Korstange, Assistant Professor of University Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
Breaking down big projects into smaller tasks helps.PhotoAlto/Michele Constantini/Getty Images

Even in normal circumstances, it can be hard to get motivated to do your schoolwork. But these are not normal circumstances.

The switch to remote instruction caused by COVID-19 has been unsettling. Patterns have changed. Habits have been disrupted. Remote...

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Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate

  • Written by Gregg Howe, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
In the heat, tomato plants can't fight off the hungry tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. From www.shutterstock.com

For millennia, insects and the plants they feed on have been engaged in a co-evolutionary battle: to eat or not be eaten. Until recently, the two antagonistic sides have maintained a stalemate of sorts. With climate change, however,...

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Coronavirus versus democracy: 5 countries where emergency powers risk abuse

  • Written by Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University
Hungarian police officers check cars at the closed Austria-Hungary border, March 18, 2020.Alex Halada/AFP via Getty Images

Editor’s note: Emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic set the conditions for political leaders to use expansive powers. They are, as a result, a test of the government’s commitment to human rights and civil...

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Democratic governors are quicker in responding to the coronavirus than Republicans

  • Written by Luke Fowler, Associate Professor and MPA Director, Boise State University
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who did not issue a stay-at-home order for his state until April 1, 2020.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

While the coronavirus pandemic is a national and international concern, state and local officials find themselves on the front lines of the public health battle.

Governors, in particular, have been in the spotlight...

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Why Latino citizens are worrying more about deportation

  • Written by Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Rosa Gutierrez Lopez from El Salvador has been living in sanctuary in a church for a year due to a deportation order.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

“You can’t deport a U.S. citizen,” said a friend recently. My friend is correct on the law.

But that doesn’t stop millions of U.S. citizens from fearing deportation anyway.

In a study p...

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The CDC now recommends wearing a mask in some cases – a physician explains why and when to wear one

  • Written by Thomas Perls, Professor of Medicine, Boston University
The change in CDC guidance comes in response to new research on how the new coronavirus can spread. Peter Denovo/Shutterstock.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its policy and is now advising everyone, whether or not they have symptoms of COVID-19, to cover their face with a mask or cloth covering whenever social...

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Doctors are making life-and-death choices over coronavirus patients – it could have long-term consequences for them

  • Written by Neil Shortland, Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Doctors are facing difficult choices in the coronavirus pandemic.Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP

As the coronavirus spreads and demand for medical gear far outstrips the supplies, doctors in the U.S. may have to choose who among their patients lives and who dies. Doctors in Italy have already been forced to make such moral choices.

In a recent article in...

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Social media fuels wave of coronavirus misinformation as users focus on popularity, not accuracy

  • Written by Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California
Misinformation and unfounded claims about COVID-19 have flooded social media sites as the new coronavirus has spread. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images

Over the past few weeks, misinformation about the new coronavirus pandemic has been spreading across social media at an alarming rate. One video that went viral claimed breathing hot air from a...

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Stuck at home with your partner? Look to retirees for how to make it work

  • Written by Anne Fishel, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Take a note from older couples who know how to do it right.Geber86/E+ via Getty Images

Across the country an unprecedented number of couples are suddenly spending every waking and sleeping hour of the day with one another.

That’s what many older retired couples do too, even when there isn’t a pandemic. Their experiences are worth...

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