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Rural hospital closings reach crisis stage, leaving millions without nearby health care

  • Written by Jane Bolin, Professor of Health Policy + Management, Deputy Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center; Associate dean of research, College of Nursing, Texas A&M University
A welcome sign to Bristol, a small town that sits in Virginia and Tennessee, June 26, 2019. Bristol is trying to recruit doctors because the rural town is facing many of the same health care shortages of other rural towns.Sudhin Thanawala/AP Photo

Presidential candidates and other politicians have talked about the rural health crisis in the U.S.,...

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Gut microbes can get you drunk and damage your liver

  • Written by Bill Sullivan, Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University
Drinking alcohol isn't the only cause of high blood alcohol levels.nikamo

Imagine that you’re a police officer. You spot a car ahead that is swerving all over the road. You pull the driver over and she’s clearly intoxicated. With slurred speech, she swears that she hasn’t had a drop of alcohol all day. Would you believe her?

In 2016...

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Why I'm teaching kids science through the sport of rowing

  • Written by Elizabeth A. Barton, Associate Professor of Research, Wayne State University
The math behind the movement.Dmitrydesign/Shutterstock.com

I didn’t know what the world looked like at 5:00 a.m. until my son began rowing for the Detroit Boat Club Crew, the oldest continuous rowing program in North America.

The sight of young rowers slicing through the water in unison in narrow sculling boats, against the backdrop of dawn...

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Local communities play outsized but overlooked role in global fisheries

  • Written by John Virdin, Director, Ocean Policy Program, Duke University
Fish for sale in a Dakar, Senegal.AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Flying along the coast in Senegal, it’s impossible not to notice thousands of dots below in the water. These are large, planked fishing canoes, the product of centuries of design and tradition, and a vital part of the local economy.

When the fishing crews come home, Senegalese beaches...

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Curious Kids: Can people colonize Mars?

  • Written by Anita Sengupta, Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Astronautics, University of Southern California
In the future, people may be able to go to Mars.Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Can we colonize Mars? – Clara, age 9, Newton, Massachusetts

In all likelihood, the first Martian will be a...

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Intelligence whistleblowers often pay a severe price

  • Written by Jennifer M. Pacella, Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
Blowing the whistle carries major risks.BlueSkyImage/Shutterstock.com

When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly veiled reference to execution, he highlighted a longstanding peril facing those who come forward to alert the public to governmental wrongdoing.

In many instances,...

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Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

  • Written by Charles Tiefer, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani in late November 2016, after Trump won the presidential election. AP/Carolyn Kaster

At the heart of the current crisis over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is an intelligence whistleblower whose information has finally made it into public view.

The...

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Beautiful people don't always win in the workplace

  • Written by Chun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Dayton
Consumers react differently to beautiful service employees.Ruben M Ramos/Shutterstock.com

Beautiful people tend to have a lot more luck in the work world.

Research has shown people deemed attractive get paid more, receive better job evaluations and are generally more employable. It’s even been shown that good-looking CEOs bring better stock...

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Rising seas threaten hundreds of Native American heritage sites along Florida's Gulf Coast

  • Written by Jayur Mehta, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University
Native American burial mound at Lake Jackson Mounds State Park, north of Tallahassee, Fla.Ebaybe/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in...

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Why the flu shot cannot give you the flu (and why you should get one now)

  • Written by Libby Richards, Associate professor of nursing, Purdue University
A nurse in Atlanta prepared the fu vaccine for a shot on Feb. 7, 2109. David Goldman/AP Photo

Flu vaccination prevents millions of flu-related illnesses and deaths annually, but vaccination rates are low for many reasons.

During the 2018-2019 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about 45% of U.S. adults received...

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