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Crisis de Venezuela: las amenazas de Trump a Maduro evocan la historia sangrienta de la intervención de EEUU en América Latina

  • Written by Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Global Studies, Appalachian State University
Cuatro manifestantes murieron en un conflict entre la oposición y las fuerzas de seguridad venezolanas en la frontera entre Venezuela y Colombia, el 22 de febrero de 2019.AP Photo/Fernando Llano

La violencia estalló en la frontera entre Venezuela y Colombia en torno a la entrega de ayuda humanitaria a Venezuela el 22 de febrero, matand...

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What Michael Cohen's betrayal reveals about our messed-up workplace loyalties

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

During Michael Cohen’s Feb. 27 testimony, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar asked the former Trump lawyer and fixer about his legal duties to the president.

“I’m sure you remember, maybe you don’t remember, duty of loyalty, duty of confidentiality, attorney-client privilege,” he said, implying that Cohen’s testimony...

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'Micro snails' we scraped from sidewalk cracks help unlock details of ancient earth's biological evolution

  • Written by Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
A live _Padaungiella lageniformis_ wiggles its pseudopods.Daniel J. G. Lahr, CC BY-ND

Every step you take, you’re likely walking on a world of unseen and undescribed microbial diversity. And you don’t need to head out into nature to find these usually unnoticed microscopic organisms.

Asbiologists, we know this firsthand. A meetup for...

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How being beautiful influences your attitudes toward sex

  • Written by Robert Urbatsch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
Beauty can mean more opportunities – but can it also influence values?Nataliass/Shutterstock.com

People tend to feel strongly about matters of sexual morality, such as premarital sex or gay marriage.

Some sources of these differences are obvious. Religion, media portrayals and parents and peers are big social forces that shape attitudes about...

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What drives the appeal of 'Passion of the Christ' and other films on the life of Jesus

  • Written by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
A still from Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.Courtesy 20th Century Fox.

Church isn’t the only place people go to learn about Jesus.

At the beginning of Lent, 15 years ago, devout evangelical Christians did not go to church to have ashes marked on their foreheads. Rather, they thronged to theaters to watch a decidedly Catholic film to begin...

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A new way to pay for innovative drugs, provide universal access and not break the bank

  • Written by Neeraj Sood, Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, prepares for the Feb. 26, 2019 hearing with CEOs from several U.S. drug makers.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo

On the heels of congressional testimony by the CEOs of major drug makers, there are some important things to keep in mind. The U.S. faces a drug pricing crisis in large...

Read more: A new way to pay for innovative drugs, provide universal access and not break the bank

Listening in to brain communications, without surgery

  • Written by Salvatore Domenic Morgera, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of South Florida
Signals from inside the brain can reveal what's happening in nerve cells.Peshkova/Shutterstock.com

Plenty of legitimate science – plus a whole lot of science fiction – discusses ways to “hack the brain.” What that really means, most of the time – even in the fictional examplesinvolves surgery, opening the...

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Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black Americans

  • Written by Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University
When it comes to wealth, black families still lag far behind in the U.S.Twinsterphoto/shutterstock.com

Black History Month has become the time to reflect on all the progress black Americans have made, but the sobering reality is that when it comes to wealth – the paramount indicator of economic security – there has been virtually no...

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Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data

  • Written by Gavin Naylor, Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, University of Florida
Of more than 500 species of sharks in the world's oceans, scientists have only sequenced a handful of genomes – most recently, white sharks.Terry Goss/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle. But why spend so much time and money figuring...

Read more: Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data

3 reasons why people fall for politicians' lies about statistics

  • Written by Mack Clayton Shelley, II, University Professor of Political Science, Statistics, and School of Education, and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Iowa State University
They said it, but is it true?EQRoy/shutterstock.com

Why do people make such poor decisions about politics? Why are they so often distracted by lies, irrelevant alternatives and specious arguments?

Politicians use and abuse statistics and fabricate when it suits their purposes. Contemporary examples of either deliberate or inadvertent misuse of data...

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  3. Cuba actualiza su Constitución, expandiendo derechos pero posponiendo cambios radicales
  4. What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history
  5. 3 things schools should teach about America's history of white supremacy
  6. China is catching up to the US on artificial intelligence research
  7. Will terrorism continue to decline in 2019?
  8. A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt
  9. Cuba expands rights but rejects radical change in updated constitution
  10. Cultured meat seems gross? It's much better than animal agriculture
  11. Newly discovered cold-tolerant plants from Siberia could promote clean bioenergy
  12. Robocalls are unstoppable – 3 questions answered about why your phone won't quit ringing
  13. WTO offers Trump a solution to enforcing a trade deal with a China that breaks promises
  14. America can afford a Green New Deal – here's how
  15. A brief history of North Carolina's 9th District contested election – in 1898
  16. Amazon pullout from NYC shows the perils of partnerships between higher education and business
  17. Is a gene-edited animal a drug?
  18. I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future
  19. Ospreys' recovery from pollution and shooting is a global conservation success story
  20. Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't matter, but it does now
  21. Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America
  22. Trump vs. Congress: The emergency declaration should not be resolved in court
  23. How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries
  24. Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship
  25. Lessons from IBM for Google, Amazon and Facebook
  26. Can sitting less decrease your risk of heart disease?
  27. El Salvador's new president must tackle crime, unemployment and migration — but nation is hopeful
  28. Stop the BS – when you hear a negative statistic about black students, question it
  29. How electric cars could make America's crumbling roads even worse
  30. Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights
  31. Why proposals to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia raise red flags
  32. The Freddie Mercury story that goes untold in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
  33. 3 tips: How to teach children to watch commercials more closely
  34. The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
  35. Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building new power plants
  36. The real women of 'The Favourite' included an 18th-century Warren Buffett
  37. Why asbestos litigation won't go away: Because asbestos won't go away
  38. Oversight committee session with Michael Cohen looks like an illegitimate show hearing
  39. Robots star in ads, but mislead viewers about technology
  40. Sexual selection in action: Birds that attract multiple mates change their songs more quickly
  41. 'Black Panther' and its science role models inspire more than just movie awards
  42. What's behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not just salaries
  43. Why cities should stop playing Amazon's game and quit offering companies tax incentives
  44. Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters
  45. What alchemy and astrology can teach artificial intelligence researchers
  46. Guyana hopes oil will bring wealth – not corruption and crisis
  47. The US adoption system discriminates against darker-skinned children
  48. The Green New Deal's 10-year timeframe is unrealistic even if a lot can happen in a few decades
  49. Promising new drug for treatment-resistant depression – esketamine
  50. The revolving door between media and government spins again with CNN's hiring of Sarah Isgur Flores