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The war on women coaches

  • Written by Laura Burton, Professor of Sport Management, University of Connecticut
Former Georgia Tech head coach MaChelle Joseph looks on during an NCAA college basketball game against Notre Dame in February 2019.AP Photo/Robert Franklin

During the past women’s college basketball season, two prominent head coaches, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s Sylvia Hatchell and Georgia Tech’s MaChelle Joseph,...

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What is Eid and how do Muslims celebrate it? 6 questions answered

  • Written by Ken Chitwood, Ph.D. Candidate, Religion in the Americas, Global Islam, University of Florida
Muslim women at a prayer service at a mosque in Redmond, Washington, to mark the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid-al-Fitr in 2016.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Editor’s note: Muslims all over the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, one of the religion’s principal festivals. In August, Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha. Ken Chitwood, a...

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Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization's decline

  • Written by Alison Kyra Carter, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon

Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million tourists each year.

It was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II, one of the most famous kings of the Angkorian civilization that lasted from approximately the ninth to 15th centuries. The structure is so...

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Big tech surveillance could damage democracy

  • Written by Chase Johnson, Research Associate, Frank Church Institute, Boise State University School of Public Service, Boise State University
Companies use data to make a portrait of their users.ImageFlow/shutterstock.com

Data is often called the oil of the 21st century.

The more tech companies know about their users, the more effectively they can direct them to goods and services that they are likely to buy. The more companies know about their users, the more competitive they are in the...

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Is Robert Mueller an antique? The role of the facts in a post-truth era

  • Written by Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University

In just a little over eight minutes – on the morning of Wednesday, May 29th – the post-truth era came to an end.

Or did it?

That’s when Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the podium and addressed only the facts concerning his two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as well as...

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Getting poorer while working harder: The 'cliff effect'

  • Written by Susan R. Crandall, Director, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Average Walmart workers make twice the federal minimum wage but may still qualify for public benefits.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.

There is no place in the country where a family supported by one minimum-wage worker with a full-time job can live and afford a...

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D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours

  • Written by Colin Flint, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
To stage their invasion of Nazi-held France, Allied forces created floating harbors in the English Channel where ships could safely dock to send soldiers and supplies ashore.Royal Air Force

When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World...

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Pilots sleeping in the cockpit could improve airline safety

  • Written by Scott Winter, Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Airline pilots are often exhausted.christinarosepix/Shutterstock.com

Airline pilots are often exhausted. An extreme example happened in 2008, when a pilot and a co-pilot both fell asleep at the controls, missing their landing in Hawaii – earning pilot’s license suspensions as well as getting fired. More recently, overtired pilots came...

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Hate crimes associated with both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have a long history in America's past

  • Written by Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
At a 2016 Trump rally, a man holds up a sign, 'Islamophobia is not the answer.'AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted recently that “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same bigoted coin.”

Her comments came in response to media reports that the suspect behind the shooting at a San Diego synagogue was also u...

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The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we thought

  • Written by Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University

June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be another destructive year thanks to the worsening impact of climate change.

But beyond more intense hurricanes and explosive wildfires, the warming climate has been blamed for causing a sharp uptick in all types of extreme weather events across...

Read more: The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we...

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  1. To tackle climate change, immigration and threats to democracy, Europe's fractious new Parliament will have to work together
  2. Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies
  3. Howard Stern talks childhood trauma, and a trauma psychiatrist talks about its lasting effects
  4. Pancreatic cancer specialist explains challenges of the disease and treatment advances
  5. The question you should never ask women – period
  6. MacKenzie Bezos's $17 billion pledge tops a growing list of women giving big
  7. J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified
  8. I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light
  9. How soybeans became China's most powerful weapon in Trump's trade war
  10. Fighting malaria with fungi: biologists engineer a fungus to be deadlier to mosquitoes
  11. Naked mole rat genes could hold the secret to pain relief without opioids
  12. Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
  13. Who are the 1 in 4 American women who choose abortion?
  14. Why thousands are getting hit with unexpected medical bills
  15. Sharing profits and ownership with workers not only make them happier, it benefits the bottom line too
  16. I was an expert witness against a teacher who taught students to question the Holocaust
  17. Why fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced
  18. Journalist killings, arrests and assaults climb worldwide as authoritarianism spreads
  19. The case against voting for charisma
  20. Israel's political stalemate reveals the power of ultra-Orthodox Jews
  21. What Israel's new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness
  22. The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that's not good enough
  23. A radical idea to get a high-renewable electric grid: Build way more solar and wind than needed
  24. This year the flu came in two waves – here’s why
  25. We're in a golden age of black horror films
  26. Congressional action on Yemen may be the first salvo against presidential war powers
  27. Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes -- mothers' roles shouldn't be erased
  28. Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes — mothers' roles shouldn't be erased
  29. Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes – mothers' roles shouldn't be erased
  30. More Americans are suing over gerrymandered state maps – but the Supreme Court is not likely to step in
  31. 6 ways to protect your mental health from social media's dangers
  32. How to teach and parent better in the age of big data
  33. CBD: The next weapon in the war against opioid addiction?
  34. High-tech fishing gear could help save critically endangered right whales
  35. Sanders and AOC want to cap interest rates on consumer loans at 15% – here's why that's a bad idea
  36. India's Prime Minister Modi pursues politics of Hindu nationalism – what does that mean?
  37. Trump and the problem with pardons
  38. How the new 'Aladdin' stacks up against a century of Hollywood stereotyping
  39. Assange’s new indictment: Espionage and the First Amendment
  40. Rapid water quality tests better protect beachgoers
  41. Doping soldiers so they fight better – is it ethical?
  42. Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public health
  43. 'World Heritage' site selection is Eurocentric – and that shapes which historic places get love and money
  44. People with traumatic brain injury, who often lose empathy, can regain it with treatment
  45. Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between
  46. As Airbnb grows, this is exactly how much it's bringing down hotel prices and occupancy
  47. The history of China's Muslims and what's behind their persecution
  48. Facebook doesn't fool me – but I worry about how it affects you
  49. Recent attempts at reparations show that World War II is not over
  50. Chicago's Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results