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How can you tell if another person, animal or thing is conscious? Try these 3 tests

  • Written by Tam Hunt, Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Researchers have ideas how to probe consciousness in another.agsandrew/Shutterstock.com

How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal subjective experience, complete with sensations and emotions like hunger, joy, or sadness? After all, the only...

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Why the Supreme Court asked for an explanation of the 2020 census citizenship question

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis

Immediately before the Supreme Court’s summer recess each year, it releases decisions in some of its most challenging and significant cases.

This year was no different.

On June 27, the last day of the term, the Supreme Court decided Department of Commerce v. New York, a case exploring legal issues surrounding the addition of the question,...

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Democrats debate the repeal of Section 1325 – what you need to know about the immigration law that criminalizes unauthorized border crossings

  • Written by Kit Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma
Julián Castro skewered the immigration provision during the first Democratic debate. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

During the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 race, former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro challenged all candidates to join his call for the repeal of a controversial immigration law.

The law, S...

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Sequencing the genome of newborns in the US: Are we ready?

  • Written by Tom Diacovo, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of UPMC Division of Newborn Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Every child born in the U.S. has a blood sample taken to screen for genetic diseases. Helen Sushitskaya/Shutterstock.com

Twenty-four to 48 hours after birth, every newborn in the U.S. will have a few drops of blood drawn and sent to a lab to be screened for hidden and potentially life-threatening disorders. This process, known as universal newborn...

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Fighting words for a New Gilded Age - Democratic candidates are sounding a lot like Teddy Roosevelt

  • Written by Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University

There was a Republican on the Democratic Party debate stage – a Progressive Republican who sometimes liked to “speak softly, and carry a big stick.” Did you notice him?

“When I say that I am for the square deal,” said the politician, “I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the...

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Young LGBT Americans are more politically engaged than the rest of Generation Z

  • Written by Melissa Deckman, Professor of Political Science, Washington College
Young LGBT Americans score higher on political engagement surveys.Ink Drop/shutterstock.com

Last year’s midterm elections were a “rainbow wave,” with more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people elected to public office than at any other time in American history.

According to the Victory Fund, a PAC that supports LGBT...

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I went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti

  • Written by Guilberly Louissaint, Anthropology Ph.d Student, University of California, Irvine
Haiti's black saint known as Grann Sainte Anne Charitable in her European Catholic form and Ti Saint Anne, in Vodoo form.Guilberly Louissaint, CC BY

In July, hundreds of pilgrims will make their way to an isolated town in the northwest of Haiti, called Anse-à-Foleur or Ansafolè. The journey celebrates a black saint known as Gran'n...

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Ack! I need chocolate! The science of PMS food cravings

  • Written by Sara Twogood, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Southern California
What makes chips and chocolate so appealing at certain times of the month?Ken Tannenbaum/Shutterstock.com

Premenstrual food cravings are the punchline of endless jokes. Like most good jokes, they’re funny because they’re true.

Certain parts of a woman’s menstrual cycle do seem to go hand in hand with the desire for chocolate ice...

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After Supreme Court decision, gerrymandering fix is up to voters

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Supreme Court is empty days before the justices vote to on the U.S. gerrymandering case.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is not unconstitutional.

The majority ruled that gerrymandering is outside the scope and power of the federal courts to adjudicate. The issue is a...

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Supreme Court says gerrymandering fix up to voters, not judges

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Supreme Court is empty days before the justices vote to on the U.S. gerrymandering case.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is not unconstitutional.

The majority ruled that gerrymandering is outside the scope and power of the federal courts to adjudicate. The issue is a...

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