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Skilled blue-collar jobs are growing – though women aren't getting them

  • Written by Eric Hoyt, Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Skilled craft jobs like plumbing and carpentry pay better than most blue-collar jobs.VGstockstudio/shutterstock.com

In the press, the phrase “blue collar” is often used as shorthand for white working-class men.

The visibility of this specific slice of the workforce has risen significantly since the 2016 election, when white...

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Sen. Martha McSally, pioneering Air Force pilot, shows how stereotypes victimize sexual assault survivors again

  • Written by Leigh Goodmark, Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Martha McSally was the first woman to fly combat missions for the United States Air Force after the prohibition on female combat pilots was lifted in 1991. She later sued the United States Department of Defense, challenging a policy that required servicewomen in Saudi Arabia to wear abaya (full-body coverings) when traveling off-base. In 2014,...

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Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north

  • Written by John Delano, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
The orientations of the stone walls that crisscross the Northeastern U.S. can tell a geomagnetic tale as well as a historical one.John Delano, CC BY-ND

When I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire, my family home was on the site of an abandoned farmstead consisting of massive stone foundations of quarried granite where dwellings once stood....

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After 100 years, Mussolini's fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler before attending a conference in Munich, Germany.AP Photo/File

One hundred years ago, in March 1919, Benito Mussolini created the fascist party in Italy.

For more than two decades, when he came to be known as “Il Duce,” or “the leader,” Mussolini wielded broad...

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Stemming the tide of trash: 5 essential reads on recycling

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
Where does it go from here?spwidoff/Shutterstock.com

A year after China upended global materials markets by banning imports of much solid waste, the effects are still rippling around the globe. Many U.S. recyclers are awash in materials they formerly sent to China for processing. Some cities with few options are burning recyclables in incinerators....

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Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?

  • Written by Wil Burns, Professor of Research & Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University School of International Service
Trapping carbon dioxide in minerals happens naturally over thousands of years. Can humans speed it up – safely?Simon Clancy, CC BY-SA

The world’s nations are nowhere near to meeting the global Paris Agreement’s goals on climate change of holding global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius compared to 19th-century averages,...

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Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change

  • Written by John R. Thelin, University Research Professor, University of Kentucky
College yearbook editors in the 1960s juxtaposed pictures of traditional campus activities, such as Greek Life, alongside images of protests and marches.The Kentuckian, 1968

Ever since a photograph surfaced of someone in blackface – and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe – on the medical college yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph...

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US military steps up cyberwarfare effort

  • Written by Benjamin Jensen, Associate Professor of International Relations, Marine Corps University; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service
The U.S. military is shifting the focus of its cyberwarfare forces.U.S. Air Force

The U.S. military has the capability, the willingness and, perhaps for the first time, the official permission to preemptively engage in active cyberwarfare against foreign targets. The first known action happened as the 2018 midterm elections approached: U.S. Cyber...

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What lessons can the clergy sex abuse crisis draw from a 4th-century church schism?

  • Written by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Following the recent revelations about sex abuse, many Christian communities are facing a crisis of trust.AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis

A string of sex abuse scandals have rocked Christian communities recently: In the Roman Catholic Church, revelations related to sex abuse by priests continue to unfold across the globe. Within the Southern Baptist...

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Humans and machines can improve accuracy when they work together

  • Written by Davide Valeriani, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multimodal Neuroimaging and Machine Learning, Harvard University
Let's work together.Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock.com

Whether artificial intelligence systems steal humans’ jobs or create new work opportunities, people will need to work together with them.

In my research I use sensors and computers to monitor how the brain itself processes decision-making. Together with another brain-computer interface...

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