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Por qué los emojis –

  • Written by Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Una opción alternativa para desbloquear un teléfono inteligente.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-ND

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¿Preferirías desbloquear tu teléfono con un PIN de cuatro dígitos o con un emoji? ¿Sería más fácil y más...

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Por qué los emojis –

  • Written by Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Una opción alternativa para desbloquear un teléfono inteligente.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-ND

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¿Preferirías desbloquear tu teléfono con un PIN de cuatro dígitos o con un emoji? ¿Sería más fácil y más...

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Por qué los emojis –

  • Written by Florian Schaub, Assistant Professor of Information; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Una opción alternativa para desbloquear un teléfono inteligente.Lydia Kraus et al., 'On the Use of Emojis in Mobile Authentication,' 2017., CC BY-ND

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¿Preferirías desbloquear tu teléfono con un PIN de cuatro dígitos o con un emoji? ¿Sería más fácil y más...

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Is immigration bad for the economy? 4 essential reads

  • Written by Bryan Keogh, Economics + Business Editor
Economist think so too. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

One of President Donald Trump’s main arguments for his “zero tolerance” immigration policy is that immigrants are bad for the economy and cost U.S. citizens jobs.

Is he right?

Economists and other scholars have been tackling this topic for years, resulting in many studies that...

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State takeovers of schools are about political power, not school improvement

  • Written by Domingo Morel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
Political motives help explain why states take over schools.Lightspring/www.shutterstock.com

When states take over local school districts – like they’ve done or are trying to do in Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi – school improvement is typically the stated objective.

Although the research on the effects of state takeovers on acad...

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How to build a better, safer, more welcoming hospital

  • Written by Leonard L. Berry, University Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School; Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Texas A&M University
A healing garden at Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.Mayo Clinic Health System, CC BY-SA

We spend much of our time in buildings, and they can have a profound effect on our well-being, for better or for worse. As long ago as 1943, Winston Churchill told Britain’s House of Commons that “we shape our buildings, and afterwards our...

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What is the WTO?

  • Written by Stephen J. Silvia, Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service

President Donald Trump has made the World Trade Organization a frequent target.

Recently, he’s reportedly considering suspending U.S. compliance with the global body – a claim the White House quickly denied.

What exactly is the WTO, and would it matter if the U.S. left it? As an international trade scholar, I’d like to start with...

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Justice Kennedy's LGBTQ legacy may be short-lived

  • Written by Alison Gash, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
In this April 28, 2015 file photo, demonstrators stand in front of a rainbow flag of the Supreme Court in Washington as the Supreme Court was set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

Kennedy’s departure from the Supreme Court has, understandably,...

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Feasting rituals – and the cooperation they require – are a crucial step toward human civilization

  • Written by Charles Stanish, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru.Robert Gutierrez, Author provided

“The Epic of Gilgamesh” is one of the earliest texts known in the world. It’s the story of a god-king, Gilgamesh, who ruled the city of Uruk in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium B.C. Within its lines, the epic hints at how the ancients viewed...

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Will Trump's Supreme Court justices show independence from him?

  • Written by Enrique Armijo, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Elon University
President Trump, Neil Gorsuch and wife Marie Louise and Justice Anthony KennedyAP/Alex Brandon

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement has sparked much speculation about the court’s future decisions on abortion and gay rights.

But what about the retirement’s effects on the future of a possible litigant before the court:...

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