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Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy

  • Written by Nicholas Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Robots won't hold the pens just yet, but they can help people do the work.Paul Fleet/Shutterstock.com

Much as robots have transformed entire swaths of the manufacturing economy, artificial intelligence and automation are now changing information work, letting humans offload cognitive labor to computers. In journalism, for instance, data mining...

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E-cig companies use cartoon characters as logos, and new study shows it works

  • Written by Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California
Use of e-cigarettes is on the rise by youth. A recent study suggests that cartoons used in advertising the products may be contributing to the increase. Diego Cervo/Shutterstock.com

Electronic cigarette use, or vaping, is unsafe for children, adolescents and young adults. Electronic cigarettes often contain nicotine and other harmful substances. Nic...

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23% of young black women now identify as bisexual

  • Written by Tristan Bridges, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
A marcher waves a flag during the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. on June 8, 2019.Nicole S. Glass/Shutterstock.com

Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart the complexities of social change in the United States.

The survey, which is conducted every couple years, asks respondents their attitudes on...

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Minorities face more obstacles to a lifesaving organ transplant

  • Written by Camilla Nonterah, Assistant Professor of Health Psychology, University of Richmond
People of color face more obstacles on the path to an organ transplant. pixfly/shutterstock.com

Patients who experience organ failure need a transplant to improve their odds of survival and to achieve a better quality of life.

However, getting an organ transplant is often accompanied by several challenges, many of which can be attributed to factors...

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Why Sudan's deadly crackdown on protesters could escalate in coming weeks

  • Written by Eric Keels, Research Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee
In this Sunday, June 9, 2019 frame grab from Sudan TV, Lt. Gen. Jamaleddine Omar, from the ruling military council, speaks on a broadcast. SUDAN TV via AP

Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3.

In addition to brutally beating the pro-democracy protesters, government troops also fired on the...

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Migrants will pay the price of Mexico's tariff deal with Trump

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is celebrating an agreement avoiding U.S. tariffs as a major political and diplomatic triumph for his government.

“We didn’t win everything, but we were able to claim a victory with there being no tariffs,” said chief negotiator Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign...

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Investigating the investigative reporters: Bad news from Down Under

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
Australian federal police entering the Australian Broadcast Company headquarters on June 5, 2019.A.B.C. screenshot from videotape

Sometimes the best journalism tells us the worst news.

The United States has a tradition of learning troubling news through extraordinary reporting efforts from combat zones. During the Vietnam War, award-winning...

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The struggle to find silence in the ancient monastic world – and now

  • Written by Kim Haines-Eitzen, Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University
Monasticism developed, in part, because people were seeking silence.Mario Mifsud

In our contemporary world, noise pollution has reached dangerous levels.

The World Health Organization has argued that “excessive noise” is a serious threat to human health. Studies have shown that excessive exposure to noise not only causes hearing loss...

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What advice articles miss about 'summer loss'

  • Written by Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University
Summer enrichment programs can lead to academic gains.Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com

When the end of the school year arrives, internet articles and morning talk shows sound the annual alarm about preventing summer learning loss. They advise parents to purchase hot new reads for their children, take them to museums, and sign them up for...

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The most unpopular presidential election winner ever could win again in 2020

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St Louis

Donald Trump is the first president to ever be elected while being actively disliked by the majority of Americans. Trump was also the first person elected president who was significantly less popular than his counterpart.

Most Americans have heard of presidents losing the popular vote but winning the election. But to win while the majority of...

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  4. May jobs report suggests a slowing economy – and possibly an imminent interest rate cut
  5. Climate change alters what's possible in restoring Florida's Everglades
  6. Forget lower jobs growth, the number of people who've stopped looking for work is much more worrisome
  7. Are brain games mostly BS?
  8. School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects
  9. How the 'good guy with a gun' became a deadly American fantasy
  10. Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason
  11. Privacy concerns don't stop people from putting their DNA on the internet to help solve crimes
  12. Does hitting the snooze button really help you feel better?
  13. What would happen to Congress if Washington, DC became the 51st state?
  14. What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria
  15. The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system
  16. No, Americans shouldn't fear traveling abroad
  17. Women have been the heart of the Christian right for decades
  18. The debate over what ails philanthropy heats up
  19. My students see giving money away as a good thing but they're getting leery of billionaire donors
  20. As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
  21. Spider glue's sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
  22. Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs to kill bacteria
  23. Brazilian universities fear Bolsonaro plan to eliminate humanities and slash public education budgets
  24. Will children in your state get the support they need? It depends on the 2020 census
  25. Trump's Mexico tariffs don't make sense, but Americans will pay a steep price anyway if they go into effect
  26. Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
  27. How 'America's Got Talent' contestant Kodi Lee shattered stereotypes about disability
  28. Cheaper versions of the most expensive drugs may be coming, but monopolies will likely remain
  29. Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes
  30. Violence climbs in Colombia as president chips away at landmark peace deal with FARC guerrillas
  31. The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
  32. The war on women coaches
  33. What is Eid and how do Muslims celebrate it? 6 questions answered
  34. Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization's decline
  35. Big tech surveillance could damage democracy
  36. Is Robert Mueller an antique? The role of the facts in a post-truth era
  37. Getting poorer while working harder: The 'cliff effect'
  38. D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours
  39. Pilots sleeping in the cockpit could improve airline safety
  40. Hate crimes associated with both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have a long history in America's past
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  42. To tackle climate change, immigration and threats to democracy, Europe's fractious new Parliament will have to work together
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  44. Howard Stern talks childhood trauma, and a trauma psychiatrist talks about its lasting effects
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  48. J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified
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