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Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers. Are they overpaid?

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
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Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.

Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?

As energyeconomists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives...

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'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers

  • Written by Lucas Davis, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Letting it rainShutterstock.com/pathdoc

Following a long slump, crude prices have rebounded to about US$70 per barrel. That may make 2018 the most profitable year for oil and gas companies in at least four years.

Will oil and gas executives reap big rewards as well?

As energyeconomists, we’ve wondered how much the top oil and gas executives...

Read more: 'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers

Why plant-based mosquito repellents are so hard to design

  • Written by Joel Coats, Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Iowa State University
A yellow citronella bucket candle is essential for summertime evenings to keep the mosquitos away.ARENA Creative/Shutterstock.com

As humanity experiences relentless pressures from disease-carrying mosquitoes in many parts of the world, there is an urgent need for new tools to use against those beasts – because they keep getting scarier.

Even...

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Why it's hard for blacks to pull themselves up by bootstraps when it comes to health

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Michigan
Students at Hampton University celebrate at graduation on May 9. 2010. Studies suggest, however, that the benefits African American students accrue from education will be fewer than those of whites.J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Many Americans deeply believe that people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. After all, individual responsibility is...

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Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals

  • Written by Melani McAlister, Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a mass in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia, on Jan. 7, 2018. Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

The close relationship between American evangelicals and Russia has lately been discussed widelyin the news media. In particular, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint in...

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Why there's so much inconsistency in school shooting data

  • Written by Lacey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University

How many school shootings happen in the U.S. in a single school year? The answer is surprisingly hard to figure out.

In April, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on the 2015-2016 school year, stating that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.”...

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How will Google's innovation continue beyond its 20th year?

  • Written by Gary Marchionini, Professor of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The past and present of Google – what's next?Sirirat/Shutterstock.com

As millions of people came online in the late 1990s they needed help figuring out what each webpage was about, and how to find what they were looking for. Web indexes and search engines sprang up. When Google was founded in September 1998, it had to compete with the informa...

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An Interracial Kiss – on Another Planet

  • Written by Phillip Martin, Podcast host

Warning: This episode contains a racial slur. In 1968 America, a country where interracial marriage had been legal nationwide for only a matter of months, the idea of romance between the races was still a controversial proposition. That made it all the more shocking when, in November of that year, William Shatner, a white man, kissed Nichelle...

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TV's first interracial kiss launched a lifelong career in activism

  • Written by Matthew Delmont, Professor of History, Arizona State University
Nervous about how southern television viewers would react, NBC executives closely monitored the filming of the kiss between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.U.S. Air Force

On Nov. 22, 1968, an episode of “Star Trek” titled “Plato’s Stepchildren” broadcast the first interracial kiss on American television.

The...

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Want to solve the world's problems? Try working together across disciplines

  • Written by Jonathan M Adler, Associate Professor of Psychology, Olin College of Engineering
Collaboration across disciplines is key to solving the world's toughest problems, researchers argue.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

Labor Day is our New Year’s Eve. Rather than vowing to lose weight or spend less time on our phones, as college professors we head into the new school year with a different kind of resolution: to inspire and...

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