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The Trebek effect: The benefits of well wishes

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Alex Trebek pictured in Pasadena, California on May 5, 2019.Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Long-time “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Within days, he offered thanks to “the hundreds of thousands of people who have sent emails, texts, tweets, and cards wishing...

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Fathers need to care for themselves as well as their kids – but often don't

  • Written by Derek M. Griffith, Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Men's Health, Vanderbilt University
Fathers often place more emphasis on their role as head of household than their health.Marmion/Shutterstock.com

If you had to choose, which would you rather have: a healthy father or a good father?

Studies suggest men often choose being a good father over being healthy.

Becoming a father is a major milestone in the life of a man, often shifting the...

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Divorced dads often dissed by schools

  • Written by Jessica Troilo, Associate Professor of Child Development and Family Studies, West Virginia University
Educators often fail to recognize fathers, a researcher contends. Brad Tollefson/AP

By the time Father’s Day takes place, the school year is usually over.

In many ways, that’s an apt metaphor for how divorced fathers – or fathers who don’t live with their children – get treated by their children’s schools. That...

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When America had an open prison – the story of Kenyon Scudder and his 'prison without walls'

  • Written by Emily Nagisa Keehn, Associate Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
The institution's west dormitory is depicted in this 1942 photograph. Scudder demanded that no walls be erected on the prison grounds.AP Photo

In a country with mass incarceration, horrific prison conditions and a penal system suffused with racism, some American prison reform activists wistfully look to Scandinavian institutions as beacons of...

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Americans don't agree on whether the poor should chip in or do work in exchange for aid

  • Written by Anya Samek, Associate Professor (Research) of Economics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Most adults under 49 without kids must work 20 hours a week to get food stamps.AP Photo/Julio Cortez

Americans don’t agree on how safety-net programs should work. For example, Republicans are pushing to strengthen work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, and co-payments for Medica...

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How an aid gusher helped and hurt Liberia

  • Written by Jessica Eise, Ross Fellow in the Brian Lamb School of Communication Doctoral Program, Purdue University

Two violent civil wars in Liberia killed a quarter million people between 1989 and 2003 and destroyed the West African country’s economy. A massive influx of foreign aid followed that turmoil, ushering in a period of relative peace and stability. Yet Liberia remains among the world’s poorest countries.

In 2017, one democratically...

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Elder abuse increasing, without increased awareness

  • Written by Linda R. Phillips, Professor (Emeritus) of Gerontological Nursing, University of Arizona
Elder abuse is far more common than many believe, making an already challenging time of life harder for those who are victims of it.SpeedKingz/Shutterstock.com

About 16% of older adults are victims of some form of mistreatment and the number of reported cases of elder abuse is steadily increasing. Because of poor record-keeping, however, those of...

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Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver?

  • Written by Kelebogile Zvobgo, Provost's Fellow in the Social Sciences and Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
More than 40 lynchings have been documented in Maryland.Shutterstock

Between 1850 and 1950, thousands of African American men, women and children were victims of lynchings: public torture and killings carried out by white mobs.

Lynchings were used to terrorize and control black people, notably in the South following the end of slavery.

Yet despite...

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Seaweed and sea slugs rely on toxic bacteria to defend against predators

  • Written by Samantha Mascuch, Postdoctoral Fellow of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Coral reefs contain an intricate web of predators and prey.lisnic/Shutterstock.com

Plants, animals and even microbes that live on coral reefs have evolved a rich variety of defense strategies to protect themselves from predators. Some have physical defenses like spines and camouflage. Others have specialized behaviors – like a squid expelling...

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  8. Fed’s dilemma: Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession
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  10. Food label nutrition facts matter to you, but don't tell you much about your gut microbes
  11. What the ban on gene-edited babies means for family planning
  12. What Orwell's '1984' tells us about today's world, 70 years after it was published
  13. Companies' self-regulation doesn't have to be bad for the public
  14. Could a weakening US economy imperil Trump's trade war against China?
  15. A growing source of Canadian asylum-seekers: US citizens whose parents were born elsewhere
  16. The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter
  17. The 25th Amendment wouldn’t work to dump Trump
  18. Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
  19. E-cig companies use cartoon characters as logos, and new study shows it works
  20. 23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
  21. Minorities face more obstacles to a lifesaving organ transplant
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  36. How the 'good guy with a gun' became a deadly American fantasy
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