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El turista humanista: cuando viajar es más que un hobby

  • Written by Randy Malamud, Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
Como dijera Mark Twain, “Viajar es un ejercicio con consecuencias fatales para los prejuicios, la intolerancia y la estrechez de mente”.Jake Simonds-Malamud, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND

Cuando vencí la fobia a los aviones, decidí recuperar el tiempo perdido recorriendo el mundo todo lo que pude.

De manera que, en el curso de una...

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4 ways to defend democracy and protect every voter's ballot

  • Written by Douglas W. Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa
How confident should voters be that their ballots will be counted accurately?AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the November midterm elections, it’s clear that U.S. voting is under electronic attack. Russian government hackers probed some states’ computer systems in the runup to the 2016 presidential...

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Politicians, lies and election legitimacy – it's an old story

  • Written by Gideon Cohn-Postar, Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
Lies can help a political campaign be successful.Shutterstock

If you lose an election to an opponent because an interest group runs ads based on false information against you, is the election result legitimate?

The 2016 presidential election featured a Russian troll farm that used fake social media accounts to try to turn voters against Hillary...

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Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures

  • Written by Aram Sinnreich, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, performs in Hamburg, Germany in 1973.Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-NC-SA

Fifty years ago – in September 1968 – the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin first performed together, kicking off a Scandinavian tour billed as the New Yardbirds.

The new, better name would come later that fall, while drummer...

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4 charts show Venezuela's worsening migrant crisis

  • Written by Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

A few years ago, Venezuela seemed to be setting the standard for social welfare in the region.

In 2015, the United Nations recognized Venezuela as having made the most advances in the fight against hunger in the Latin American and Caribbean region. National rates of poverty and inequality declined under President Hugo Chávez from the early...

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New technique heals wounds with reprogrammed skin cells

  • Written by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego
Patient with leg ulcers.Chaikom/Shutterstock.com

People with severe burns, bedsores or chronic diseases such as diabetes are at risk for developing wounds known as cutaneous ulcers, which can extend through multiple layers of the skin.

Apart from being extremely painful, these wounds can lead to serious, sometimes deadly, infections or amputations....

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Lesson from Brazil: Museums are not forever

  • Written by Chip Colwell, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
Brazil's gutted National Museum now resembles an archaeological ruin itself.AP Photo/Mario Lobao

We now know what history going up in flames looks like.

On Sept. 2, the National Museum of Brazil lit up Rio de Janeiro’s night sky. Perhaps started by an errant paper hot air balloon landing on the roof or a short circuit in a laboratory, the...

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Colapso de Nicaragua agrava la crisis migratoria en Centroamérica

  • Written by Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Florida International University
Fuerzas rebeldes protegen las barricadas en la ciudad de Masaya después del asedio de policía y fuerzas pro Ortega el 17 de julio, 2018. AP Photo/Cristibal Venegas

Por años, los migrantes centroamericanos han estado al centro de lo que varios gobiernos estadounidenses han llamado “la crisis migratoria”.

Cada...

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Serena Williams' catsuit controversy evokes the battle over women wearing shorts

  • Written by Deirdre Clemente, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Serena Williams – wearing her controversial catsuit – returns a shot during the first round of the French Open in May 2018.AP Photo/Michel Euler

At the French Open, Serena Williams wore a custom-made black catsuit. On August 24, the president of the French Tennis Federation said the outfit “wouldn’t be back.” It...

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Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the Eastern Seaboard

  • Written by Matthew E. Baker, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bloede Dam (ca. 2016) near Ilchester, MarylandMatthew Baker/UMBC, CC BY-SA

This month, the Bloede Dam will be removed from the Lower Patapsco River near Ilchester, Maryland.

The restoration is a one-of-a-kind natural experiment that will help test how relatively inexpensive drones can help scientists like me understand the integrity of streams and...

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