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Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?

  • Written by Nermin Allam, Assistant Professor of Politics, Rutgers University Newark
A woman in Saudi Arabia drives to work for the first time in Riyadh.AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty

Earlier this summer, Saudi Arabia lifted the decades-long ban on women’s driving. The move is part of a series of reforms that the country has been implementing. In April the kingdom loosened male guardianship laws – under which women need the...

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The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone 

  • Written by Daniel R. Weinberger, Director of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and The Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
African-Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies.Wadi Lissa/Unsplash

Could your medical treatment one day be tailored to your DNA? That’s the promise of “personalized medicine,” an individualized approach that has caught the imagination of doctors and researchers over the past few years. This...

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Obesity and diabetes: 2 reasons why we should be worried about the plastics that surround us

  • Written by Bruce Blumberg, Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology , University of California, Irvine
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used in a variety of applications from plumbing to health care to electronics.By SIRIKANLAYA KHLIBNGERN/shutterstock.com

Today, nearly 40 percent of U.S. adults and 21 percent of youth are obese. This trend is on the upswing and the worldwide population is becoming more obese – which is increasing the risk of other...

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A socialist's primary win doesn't herald a workers revolution in the US

  • Written by Daniel Pout, Instructor School of Politics & Global Studies, Arizona State University
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a California fundraiser in AugustAP/Jae C. Hong

Anyone anticipating a golden dawn of Marxist-Leninist communism soon in the United States might have to wait a while longer – perhaps forever.

The surprise victory of socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over longtime Democratic New York Congressman John Crowley in a...

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The start of high school doesn't have to be stressful

  • Written by David Yeager, Associate professor, University of Texas at Austin
Up to two-thirds of students experience 'ninth grade shock,' which can affect everything from grades to mental health.ABO Photography/www.shutterstock.com

This month, more than 4 million students across the nation will begin high school.

Many will do well.

But many will not.

Consider that nearly two-thirds of students will experience the “ninth...

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America has 1.5 million nonprofits and room for more

  • Written by Robert Christensen, Associate Professor, Romney Institute of Public Management, Brigham Young University
Overcrowding is harder to define than it may appear.adike/Shutterstock.com

The nation’s 1.5 million nonprofits do everything from fielding Little League teams to funding orchestras.

Despite all the good these organizations do, some donors worry that the nation has more nonprofits than it can sustain. In America alone, more than 36,000 of them...

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The ghost of Roy Orbison goes on tour – and some aren't happy about it

  • Written by Peter Lehman, Professor, Department of English and Director, Center for Film, Media and Popular Cutlure, Arizona State University

In January, the production company Base Hologram announced its forthcoming Roy Orbison hologram tour, “In Dreams,” with the U.S. leg of the tour set to kick off on Oct. 1 in Oakland. For the unitiated: A computer-generated hologram of Orbison will be performing alongside an orchestra and band.

Shortly after the announcement, a handful...

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Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here's what happened

  • Written by Andrew Spicer, Associate Professor of International Business, University of South Carolina
Can Walmart go green while maintaining its commitment to low prices?AP Photo/Tom Uhlman

What a difference the birth of a granddaughter can make.

For Lee Scott, who ran Walmart from 2000 to 2009, the arrival of his granddaughter not only convinced him the threat of global warming was real but set him on a course that altered the very DNA of the world...

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Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here's what could happen next

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2018. Josh Edelson/Pool Photo via AP

In the first of many pending lawsuits to go to trial, a jury in San Francisco concluded on Aug. 10 that the plaintiff had developed cancer from exposure to...

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¿Por qué nuestro cerebro siempre encuentra problemas?

  • Written by David Levari, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology, Harvard University
¿Cómo puede alguien saber si está progresando en la resolución de un problema, si el cerebro humano está diseñado para continuamente redefinir las condiciones de esa resolución?ra2studio/www.shutterstock.com

¿Por qué en la vida se nos presentan tantos problemas que parecen aferrarse a...

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  2. Profit, not free speech, governs media companies' decisions on controversy
  3. Apple's $1 trillion value doesn't mean it's the 'biggest' company
  4. Why Trump shouldn't leverage the government's emergency oil supply to bolster the GOP
  5. What is causing Florida's algae crisis? 5 questions answered
  6. Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there is a link?
  7. From breast implants to ice cube trays: How silicone took over our kitchens
  8. Flip a switch and shut down seizures? New research suggests how to turn off out-of-control signaling in the brain
  9. Argentina rejects legal abortion — and not all Catholics are celebrating
  10. Heat and Light: Trailer
  11. 5 autores latinos que merecen ser leídos
  12. For universities, making the case for diversity is part of making amends for racist past
  13. How the federal government came to control your car's fuel economy
  14. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries
  15. The world of plastics, in numbers
  16. How pharmacists can help solve medication errors
  17. How new fathers use social media to make sense of their roles
  18. Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
  19. Can Trump's White House legally ban reporters?
  20. What is insider trading, the crime Rep. Chris Collins was charged with?
  21. Republicans may be panicking over Ohio's special election results
  22. La raza del asesino influye en la cobertura mediática de los tiroteos masivos en EEUU
  23. Audiences love the anger: Alex Jones, or someone like him, will be back
  24. What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
  25. Capital gains and why they matter – a tax expert explains
  26. All the battles being waged against fossil fuel infrastructure are following a single strategy
  27. Who are Pakistan's Ahmadis and why haven't they voted in 30 years
  28. Programmers need ethics when designing the technologies that influence people's lives
  29. Your voting habits may depend on when you registered to vote
  30. A night enforcing immigration laws on the US-Mexico border
  31. 5 razones por las cuales la pesadilla de Venezuela podría empeorar, con o sin los drones asesinos
  32. Ida B. Wells: How grassroots support and social media made a monumental difference in honoring her legacy
  33. The US needs to get over its obsession with GDP
  34. Smith College incident is latest case of racial 'profiling by proxy'
  35. Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it
  36. As Russians hack the US grid, a look at what's needed to protect it
  37. Americans, stop obsessing over GDP
  38. Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments
  39. Save money when traveling abroad by thinking like an economist
  40. Funding basic research plays the long game for future payoffs
  41. Humans gave leprosy to armadillos – now they are giving it back to us
  42. What philosophers have to say about eating meat
  43. Frente a movilización masiva para el aborto legal en Argentina, la Iglesia católica modera su tono
  44. Facing a groundswell of support for legal abortion, Argentina's Catholic Church moderates its tone
  45. Violencia crónica de México afecta la salud mental, con consecuencias fatales: más suicidios
  46. Police kill about 3 men per day in the US, according to new study
  47. Vladimir Putin's lying game
  48. Brains keep temporary molecular records before making a lasting memory
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