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How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national sensation

  • Written by Robert Wyss, Professor of Journalism, University of Connecticut
A drawing from Harper's Weekly depicts a game between the Red Stockings and the Brooklyn Atlantics.New York Public Library

This Major League Baseball season, fans may notice a patch on the players’ uniforms that reads “MLB 150.”

The logo commemorates the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who, in 1869, became the first professional baseball...

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Principle behind Google's April Fools' pigeon prank proves more than a joke

  • Written by Edward Wasserman, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa
Consider the wisdom of the flock.Zac Ong/Unsplash, CC BY

Google’s 2002 April Fools’ Day joke purportedly disclosed that its popular search engine was not actually powered by artificial intelligence, but instead by biological intelligence. Google had deployed bunches of birds, dubbed pigeon clusters, to calculate the relative value of...

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Extreme weather news may not change climate change skeptics' minds

  • Written by Ryan Weber, Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama in Huntsville
How do people respond to media coverage of weather influenced by climate change?AP Photo/Andy Newman

The year 2018 brought particularly devastating natural disasters, including hurricanes, droughts, floods and fires – just the kinds of extreme weather events scientists predict will be exacerbated by climate change.

Amid this destruction, some...

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You'll hear these 4 arguments in defense of the Electoral College – here's why they're wrong

  • Written by Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie campus, Pennsylvania State University

For the first time in the country’s modern history, the existence of the Electoral College has become a campaign issue.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently called for the abolition of the Electoral College, while other Democratic presidential candidates, including former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris,...

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DOJ efforts to kill Obamacare, the cat with 9 lives, could cause health care havoc for millions

  • Written by J.B. Silvers, Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announces legislation at the Capitol on March 26 to lower health care costs and protect people with pre-existing conditions.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

If the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, were a cat, it would be just about out of its nine lives.

It is amazing that this law, which represented a sea...

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Supreme Court to rule on use of religious symbols in war memorials

  • Written by Corey D. B. Walker, Visiting Professor, University of Richmond
The 40-foot Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers.AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case regarding the constitutional validity of a war memorial in Maryland in the shape of a Christian cross. The memorial is known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross and stands on government property. At issue in the case is a...

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The science and politics of genetically engineered salmon: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
After decades of work, a salmon product engineered to grow faster may be coming to the U.S.Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND

A Massachusetts-based company earlier this month cleared the last regulatory hurdle from the Food and Drug Administration to sell genetically engineered salmon in the U.S. Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam, who served...

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How higher ed can earn the public's trust after the admissions scandal

  • Written by Genevieve Shaker, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI
Carol Folt, the next president of the University of Southern California. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, CC BY-ND

The college admissions scandal is exposing illegal and unethical conduct by dozens of people who paid or took bribes to get students into the University of Southern California and other elite universities. Concerns about social justice, mer...

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Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting it

  • Written by Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
The game is becoming less exciting for fans.Daniel Padavona/shutterstock.com

Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics. Many can recite records like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Rickey Henderson’s 130 stolen bases or Barry Bonds’...

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Beyond 'Bandersnatch,' the future of interactive TV is bright

  • Written by David Schwartz, Associate Professor of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
Make a choice to see the next phase of the story.Netflix

Make a choice: Do you want to engage with your media passively or actively?

The December 2018 premiere of Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” offered consumers a new way to influence the entertainment they’re watching. Netflix has a growing list of...

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  10. Apollo 11 brought a message of peace to the Moon - but Neil and Buzz almost forgot to leave it behind
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  12. Boeing is doing crisis management all wrong – here's what a company needs to do to restore the public's trust
  13. A chess program helped this 8-year-old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter – here's what to look for in a chess program for your child
  14. The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline
  15. Why the Vatican needs to open its archives on Pope Pius XII
  16. Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country
  17. Why Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters
  18. Despite consumer worries, the future of aviation will be more automated
  19. How Trump and Barr could stretch claims of executive privilege and grand jury secrecy
  20. Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe
  21. Cars are regulated for safety – why not information technology?
  22. What President Trump's executive order on campus free speech is really meant to do
  23. Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane – but didn't want to hurt America’s biggest exporter either
  24. Electronic health records cannot replace a doctor who knows you
  25. Journalism needs to practice transparency in a different way to rebuild credibility
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  30. March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?
  31. Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA's new leadership?
  32. We need more teachers of color, so why do we use tests that keep them out of the classroom?
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  36. Why social movements like #MeToo seem to come out of nowhere
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