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Documentary provides rare look at higher education in prison

  • Written by Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
Students in an advanced bachelor's degree seminar in the Bard Prison Initiative at Eastern New York Correctional Facility.Skiff Mountain Films

What is prison for? Should it include a college education?

Those two questions are at the heart of “College Behind Bars,” a new documentary that airs Nov. 25 and 26 on PBS. The documentary –...

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A major democracy fights to maintain the rule of law -- this time, it's Israel

  • Written by David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Oregon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.AP/Oded Balilty

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with three counts of corruption on Nov. 21.

At the same moment, former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill was testifying before the House Intelligence Committee about the Trump Administration’s...

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On TV, political ads are regulated – but online, anything goes

  • Written by Ari Lightman, Professor of Digital Media and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
There are different rules for ads on TV versus online.Goran Petric/Shutterstock.com

With the 2020 election just a year away, Facebook is under fire from presidential candidates, lawmakers, civil rights groups and even its own employees to provide more transparency on political ads and potentially stop running them altogether.

Meanwhile, Twitter has...

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Broken trust: How Iraqis lost their faith in Washington, long before the Kurds did

  • Written by Mieczysław P. Boduszyński, Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College
A mass grave is excavated in Khan Al-Rubea in 2003 that witnesses say is filled with the remains of Shia whom Saddam executed in 1991. AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian

In all the hand-wringing that critics and commentators have done since President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria, one of the common refrains emphasizes...

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Brain activity predicts which mice will become compulsive drinkers

  • Written by Cody A. Siciliano, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
Can the activity in brain circuits predict who is vulnerable to excessive drinking?AlexLMX/Shutterstock.com

Some individuals consume alcohol their entire adult life without developing an alcohol use disorder. Others, however, quickly transition to compulsive and problematic drinking. Can we determine what makes some people vulnerable to addiction?

Al...

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Light versus dark – the color of the meat is due to the job of the muscle

  • Written by Joshua Selsby, Professor of Animal Science, Iowa State University
Turkeys do a lot of standing and milling around, not a lot of flying.Richard Wozniak/Shutterstock.com

As families gather together this holiday season, the lucky ones will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white meat versus dark meat.

Light meat lovers claim dark meat is greasy;...

Read more: Light versus dark – the color of the meat is due to the job of the muscle

Light versus dark – the color of the turkey meat is due to the job of the muscle

  • Written by Joshua Selsby, Professor of Animal Science, Iowa State University
Turkeys do a lot of standing and milling around, not a lot of flying.Richard Wozniak/Shutterstock.com

As families gather together this holiday season, the lucky ones will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white meat versus dark meat.

Light meat lovers claim dark meat is greasy;...

Read more: Light versus dark – the color of the turkey meat is due to the job of the muscle

How universal childhood trauma screenings could backfire

  • Written by David Finkelhor, Professor of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
California is implementing universal screenings for childhood trauma.wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com

It is well established that child maltreatment and other childhood adversities are associated with poor outcomes later on in life.

As a result, many child advocates have embraced the idea that we should screen all children for adverse childhood...

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Turning to turkey's tryptophan to boost mood? Not so fast

  • Written by Andrew Neff, Adjunct Faculty in Psychology, Rochester University
Those smiles probably aren’t thanks to tryptophan.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

Every Thanksgiving, myths of the quasi-magical powers of tryptophan rise again.

There’s the turkey/drowsiness myth: Eating lots of juicy turkey meat supposedly makes people feel tired because it contains an amino acid called tryptophan. This...

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