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'The Mandela Effect' is the perfect film for our age of distrust and doubt

  • Written by Aaron French, PhD Candidate in the Study of Religion, University of California, Davis
Some are convinced that details from the past are being warped.Periscope Entertainment

You’ve likely used the internet to help you remember something, like a quote from a movie, only to discover the answer differed from what you had anticipated. Maybe you shrugged, telling yourself your memory was faulty, and went on with your life.

But what...

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Why Americans are staying put, instead of moving to a new city or state

  • Written by Thomas Cooke, Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut
A less common sight in the U.S. today.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

The story of America is one of moving.

A total of 13.6% of Americans today were born in another country, and most of us are descended from immigrants. This story of migration also includes moving within the country. Over the last 200 years, Americans have settled the...

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Currency manipulation and why Trump is picking on Brazil and Argentina

  • Written by Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University
Trump says Argentina is intentionally weakening the peso. FJZEA/Shutterstock.com

President Donald Trump slapped new tariffs on Brazil and Argentina after accusing them of manipulating their currencies to boost exports.

It wasn’t the first time Trump has labeled another country a “currency manipulator” for supposedly meddling to...

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At 70, is NATO still important? 5 essential reads

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Politics + Society Editor, The Conversation US
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump meet the press at the 2019 NATO summit in London.AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

As the NATO summit begins in London on Dec. 3, it brings together leaders of the world’s most powerful military alliance, with 29 members on three continents. Celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2019,...

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Climate, not conflict, drove many Syrian refugees to Lebanon

  • Written by Hussein A. Amery, Professor of International Studies, Colorado School of Mines
Refugees in the city of Qab Illyas in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley dig their own water wells.Hussein A. Amery, CC BY-ND

People who fled Syria in recent years are often viewed as war refugees because of the violence that has engulfed much of the country since 2011.

But those from the northern and northeastern parts of Syria may more accurately be viewed...

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Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves

  • Written by Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
A portrait from 1868 of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz

Millions of people voted in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill. But many might not have known the story of her life as chronicled in a recent film, “Harriet.”

Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an...

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A quantum computing future is unlikely, due to random hardware errors

  • Written by Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Will quantum computers ever reliably best classical computers?Amin Van/Shutterstock.comArtist’s rendition of the Google processor.Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence, CC BY-ND

Google announced this fall to much fanfare that it had demonstrated “quantum supremacy” – that is, it performed a specific quantum...

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Haitian migrants face deportation and stigma in hurricane-ravaged Bahamas

  • Written by Bertin M. Louis, Jr., Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky
A man stands on the rubble of his home in the Haitian Quarter, after the passage of the Hurricane Dorian in Abaco, Bahamas, Sept. 16, 2019. AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Haiti wasn’t on Hurricane Dorian’s slow-moving path of destruction across the Caribbean in early September, but Haitians are suffering in the storm’s aftermath anyway.

In...

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The tricky ethics of Google's Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records

  • Written by Cason Schmit, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
Sharing electronic medical records broadly could identify trends as well as mistakes, but it also poses privacy concerns.Metamorworks/Shutterstock.com

The nation’s second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project...

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Invasive grasses are fueling wildfires across the US

  • Written by Emily Fusco, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Burning invasive, nonnative grasses on federal land at Lower Table Rock, Oregon. BLM, CC BY

The Santa Ana winds that help drive fall and winter wildfires in California have died down, providing welcome relief for residents. But other ecological factors contribute to fires in ways that scientists are still discovering.

I study how human actions...

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