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Veterans are concerned about climate change, and that matters

  • Written by Matthew Motta, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science of Science Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the Navy's largest base, is endangered by sea level rise.Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott

News that the Trump administration plans to create a panel devoted to challenging government warnings about climate change has been met with opposition from members of the U.S. military. Citing concerns...

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University of California's break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

  • Written by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires.Eric Chan/Flickr, CC BY

The University of California recently made international headlines when it canceled its subscription with scientific journal publisher Elsevier. The twittersphere lit up. And Elsevier’s parent...

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11 things you can do to adjust to losing that 1 hour of sleep this weekend

  • Written by Deepa Burman, Co- Director Pediatric Sleep Evaluation Center and Associate professor of pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
The loss of even an hour of sleep is hard on the body, and kids are particularly vulnerable.kornnphoto/Shutterstock.com

As clocks march ahead of time on March 10, 2019 and daylight saving time begins, there is a lot of anxiety around losing the hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change.

Usually an hour seems like an insignificant amount of time...

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New AI art has artists, collaborators wondering: Who gets the credit?

  • Written by Aaron Hertzmann, Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington
An artificial image created on the Ganbreeder sitesgc/Ganbreeder

Over the past few years, many artists have started to use what’s called “neural network software” to create works of art.

Users input existing images into the software, which has been programmed to analyze them, learn a specific aesthetic and spit out new images that...

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#StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women's fight against sexual harassment didn't start with #MeToo

  • Written by Alka Kurian, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
Indian women hold protests against sexual violence.AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File

Just two months after allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light in a 2017 New York Times article, women in at least 85 countriesbegan using the the hashtag #MeToo, to speak against sexual harassment.

In China, sexual...

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Once captives of Boko Haram, these students are finding new meaning in their lives in Pennsylvania

  • Written by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Visiting International Scholar in International Studies & Political Science, Dickinson College
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017.Olamikan Gbemiga/AP

Of all the challenges faced by people who’ve been displaced, perhaps none is more important than to find new meaning in their lives. And so it is with the four young women who are students in a college prep class that I teach at Dickinson...

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How to prevent the 'robot apocalypse' from ending labor as we know it

  • Written by Thomas Kochan, Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Fears of robots taking nearly half of human occupations have been overblown.Mykola Holyutyak/Shutterstock.com

It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of another dire warning about the future of work.

Some alarmists fear a “robot apocalypse,” while others foresee the day of “singularity” coming when artificial...

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Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help

  • Written by Sarah Scheffler, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Boston University
Sometimes the questions become too much for artificial intelligence systems.sdecoret/Shutterstock.com

Artificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to process data and respond to changing situations, whether on the stock market or on a battlefield. But there are still some things AI isn’t ready for.

We are sc...

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Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual violence

  • Written by Alka Kurian, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
Indian women hold protests against sexual violence.AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File

Just two months after allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light in a 2017 New York Times article, women in at least 85 countriesbegan using the the hashtag #MeToo, to speak against sexual harassment.

In China, sexual...

Read more: Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual...

Brazil and Venezuela clash over migrants, humanitarian aid and closed borders

  • Written by Robert Muggah, Associate Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Clashes between opposition protesters and Venezuelan soldiers at the Venezuela-Brazil border have killed an estimated 25 people.AP Photo/Edmar Barros

Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó.

The United...

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  4. US takes tentative steps toward opening up government data
  5. Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?
  6. Sexism has long been part of the culture of Southern Baptists
  7. How to distinguish a psychopath from a 'shy-chopath'
  8. The shutdown brought people who rely on SNAP an extra helping of economic hardship
  9. Ensuring racial equality – from classrooms to workplaces – depends on federal regulations Trump could roll back
  10. Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
  11. #MeToo whistleblowing is upending A century-old legal precedent in US demanding loyalty to the boss
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  14. The struggle for coal miners’ health care and pension benefits continues
  15. Mining the Moon
  16. Autonomous drones can help search and rescue after disasters
  17. America's schools are crumbling – what will it take to fix them?
  18. What will come after a US withdrawal from Afghanistan?
  19. Kashmir conflict is not just a border dispute between India and Pakistan
  20. El origen de los cócteles artesanales es la Ley seca
  21. A letter from Beth Daley
  22. Purdue Pharma taps a Gilded Age history of pharmaceutical fraud
  23. Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women's health clinics, study finds
  24. Teacher unions say they're fighting for students and schools – what they really want is more members
  25. Netanyahu’s hardline foreign policies may outlast his tenure
  26. 5 ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time
  27. Fyre debacle shows how smaller acts can get burned in modern music festival economy
  28. Lightweight of periodic table plays big role in life on Earth
  29. EPA's plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a drop in the bucket
  30. After Cardinal Pell’s conviction, can a tradition-bound church become more accountable?
  31. Is it more dangerous to let Islamic State foreign fighters from the West return or prevent them from coming back?
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  33. What makes natural gas bottlenecks happen during extreme cold snaps
  34. Why Congress needs to make child care more affordable – 5 questions answered
  35. How SpaceX lowered costs and reduced barriers to space
  36. Trump-Kim summit ends with no deal, but diplomacy is a long process
  37. Crisis de Venezuela: amenazas de Trump a Maduro evocan la historia sangrienta de la intervención de EEUU en América Latina
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  39. What Michael Cohen's betrayal reveals about our messed-up workplace loyalties
  40. 'Micro snails' we scraped from sidewalk cracks help unlock details of ancient earth's biological evolution
  41. How being beautiful influences your attitudes toward sex
  42. What drives the appeal of 'Passion of the Christ' and other films on the life of Jesus
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  45. Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black Americans
  46. Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data
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  48. Michael Cohen's testimony on Trump business reveals conduct that's widespread in corporate America
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