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It's cold! A physiologist explains how to keep your body feeling warm

  • Written by JohnEric Smith, Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
It's all about holding on to the heat you have.Jason Rosewel/Unsplash, CC BY

Whether waiting for a bus, playing outside or walking the dog – during the colder winter season, everyone is looking for ways to stay warm. Luckily, the process your body uses to break down foods serves as an internal heater.

But when the weather is cold, some...

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Howard Thurman – the Baptist minister who had a deep influence on MLK

  • Written by Paul Harvey, Professor of American History, University of Colorado
Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism.AP File Photo

For most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation and violence, making space for introspection was difficult. Martin Luther King Jr., however, learned to integrate spiritual growth with social...

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A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean

  • Written by Matthew Savoca, Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
Teenager Alex Weber and friends collected nearly 40,000 golf balls hit into the ocean from a handful of California golf courses.Alex Weber, CC BY-ND

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gr...

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America's public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and MLK would disapprove

  • Written by Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell
America's public schools were meant to bring together children from all walks of life.Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com

Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in a 1968 speech, the deeper struggle was “for...

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Martin Luther King Jr., union man

  • Written by Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the picket line at the Scripto plant in Atlanta, Ga., December, 1964.AP

If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.

King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you...

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What a 16th-century mystic can teach us about making good decisions

  • Written by Annmarie Cano, Professor of Psychology and Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Faculty Success, Wayne State University
Sculpture of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, on the campus of Boston College.Jay Yuan/Shutterstock.com

Decision-making is a complex process. As individuals, working through our daily lives, we often take a number of shortcuts that may not always serve us well. For example, we make impulsive decisions when stressed or allow...

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Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains

  • Written by Matthew D. Moran, Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
A young bull bison grazes on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.Matthew Moran, CC BY-ND

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean.

This is the Flint Hills. For over a century it has been...

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How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement

  • Written by Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
Salvadoran immigrants were pivotal in the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles in 1990. It earned wage increases for custodial staff nationwide and inspired today's $15 minimum wage campaign. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, two views predominate about Central American migrants:...

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Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health

  • Written by Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean, cardiologist, professor, Tufts University
Policymakers are responding to a growing recognition of food as medicine.udra11/Shutterstock.com

In this new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions about healthier eating. In 2019, could U.S. government leaders further resolve to improve healthier eating as well, joining public health experts in seeing that food is medicine?

In 2018,...

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What’s an index fund?

  • Written by Jordan Schoenfeld, Accounting Faculty, Georgetown University

The creation of the index fund in 1975 revolutionized investing, lowering costs for millions of ordinary investors.

Their inventor John Bogle died on Jan. 16 at the age of 89.

Bogle took a complex universe of thousands of stocks and reduced it to a simple, singular entity, the index fund. Through index funds, investing in the stock market became...

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