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Skip this chore: Cleaning your air conditioner condenser probably won't make it work better

  • Written by David Yuill, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scratch this off your to-do list.Florence Yuill, CC BY-ND

I asked my neighbor who hoses off his air conditioner condenser every spring why he does it. “Because my dad always told me I had to,” he said.

Conventional wisdom like what my neighbor’s dad imparted may always seem right. But through my HVAC scholarship – the study...

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Why flood insurance needs an overhaul: 6 questions answered

  • Written by Robert W. Klein, Professor Emeritus of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University

Editor’s note: The Trump administration plans to significantly revamp the pricing of flood insurance. While some homeowners would see their premiums rise, others would benefit from lower rates. We asked an insurance expert to explain what the government program currently works and why it’s in dire need of fixing.

What is flood insurance?...

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Baseball's biggest problem isn't pace of play – it's teams tanking

  • Written by Adam Felder, Director of Data Analytics, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia
Miami Marlins fans have little to look forward to this season.AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

Major League Baseball is in trouble. But for all of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s concerns about pace of play, he’s looking in the wrong direction.

The game is healthy. The league isn’t.

Tanking – or intentionally losing – is endemic....

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A new procedure may preserve fertility in kids with cancer after chemo or radiation

  • Written by Kyle Orwig, Professor of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
A 12-week-old baby female macaque, named Grady, was born from frozen testicular tissue. Oregon Health and Science University, CC BY-SA

Cancer in children was often a death sentence in decades past, but new therapies are saving lives. Many of these treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, however, make children infertile. Now, new research is...

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March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?

  • Written by John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Pennsylvania State University
The odds of more legal betting are good. AP Photo/John Locher

March means springtime, but also breathless headlines of Cinderellas, busted brackets and buzzer beaters.

This year, it’ll also include talk of “sharps,” “handles” and “point spreads,” as millions more Americans are able to openly wager for the...

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Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA's new leadership?

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
Will food laws change as more GM foods are created?Zerbor/Shutterstock.com

The world of food and drug regulation was rocked earlier this month by the news of a change in leadership at the Food and Drug Administration. Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigned and will step down in early April. His temporary replacement is Dr. Ned Sharpless, director of...

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We need more teachers of color, so why do we use tests that keep them out of the classroom?

  • Written by Emery Petchauer, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Teacher license exams often fail to predict which teachers will be the best, research shows.michaeljung from shutterstock.com

Students of color seldom see teachers who look like them. This is because many aspiring teachers of color are pushed out of the profession before they have a chance to start. It’s not poor performance in college...

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Niger has the world's highest birth rate – and that may be a recipe for unrest

  • Written by John F. May, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University

While fertility levels have declined rapidly in most parts of the world, many countries in the sub-Saharan African region of the Sahel have seen their reproductive rates go down very slowly, and only very slightly.

The average woman in Niger, for example, still has 7.2 children, according to the Population Reference Bureau 2018 World Population...

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Nuns were secluded to avoid scandals in early Christian monastic communities

  • Written by Alison I. Beach, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Margareta, head of the women's community at Lippoldsberg (in modern-day Germany) clasps hands with an Augustinian monk as he hands her a book.Lippoldsberg Evangeliary. Kassel, Landesbibliothek, MS theol. 2o 59, f. 73v.

Pope Francis recently stated that Catholic nuns in various parts of the world, including Africa, Europe, India and Latin America,...

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Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live

  • Written by Jennifer Grygiel, Assistant Professor of Communications (Social Media) & Magazine, Syracuse University
Facebook Live can be fun – or really scary.I'm friday/Shutterstock.com

When word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. In 2017, Godwin was murdered in Cleveland, Ohio, and initial reports indicated that the attacker streamed it on Facebook Live, at the time a relatively...

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  4. Death penalty moratorium in California – what it means for the state and for the nation
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  8. Violence against women is overlooked in its role in opioid epidemic
  9. A case against a moratorium on germline gene editing
  10. White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global terror threat
  11. Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health
  12. The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism
  13. What is the significance of Friday prayers in Islam?
  14. A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo
  15. Wastewater is an asset – it contains nutrients, energy and precious metals, and scientists are learning how to recover them
  16. Student loans and 'risk-sharing' – the problem with penalizing colleges when graduates can't pay
  17. For Native Americans, US-Mexico border is an 'imaginary line'
  18. Danger ahead in the constitutional standoff over Trump's emergency declaration
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  25. Global study of pancreatic cancer offers possible insights into treatment and early detection
  26. Teaching in America's prisons has taught me to believe in second chances
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  38. Consumer rights are worthless without enforcement
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