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Why Harvey Weinstein can't redeem himself through charity alone

  • Written by Ted Lechterman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
imageFilmmaker Harvey Weinstein, shown attending a concert to raise money for the Robin Hood Foundation in 2013. Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP

As allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and rape topple his career and wipe out his clout, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is apparently trying to contain the blaze with generosity. So far, he isn’t...

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What the 'Fearless Girl' statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common

  • Written by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Vice Dean, Director of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,” a statue of a little girl installed to face Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue. Her defiance was aimed at financial culture’s historical exclusion of women in the financial industry, especially in leadership positions.

In...

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Our calculator will guess how many healthy years of life you have left

  • Written by Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Director of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research, University of Connecticut
imageWe're living longer than ever. But how many of those years will we be healthy?Have a nice day photo/Shutterstock.com

As the old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. While death is inevitable, the quality of life you experience until death is often within an individual’s control.

This is what our team at the...

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Just 120 days into his term, Ecuador's new president is already undoing his own party's legacy

  • Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes., National University of La Plata

It may be a bit much to invoke Gustav Meyrink’s Golem – the indomitable clay creation that destroyed everything in its path, alive but soulless – but the lurching, paradoxical maneuvering of Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, does lend itself to literary comparisons.

Moreno served as vice president for six years under Rafael...

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Cómo el nuevo presidente del Ecuador procura deshacer el legado del Correismo en solo 120 días

  • Written by Soledad Stoessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Latin American Political Processes., National University of La Plata

Tal vez sea mucho compararlo con el Golem de Gustav Meyrink y la creación del rabino de Praga – una criatura de barro, indócil y destructora de todo lo que encontraba en su camino, con vida pero sin alma – pero el comportamiento actual de Lenin Moreno, el presidente del Ecuador, sí se da para metáforas...

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Do gamers behave the way game theory predicts they should?

  • Written by Konrad Grabiszewski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Miami
imageHow do people make complex decisions?Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com

When faced with a decision, people have varying ways of analyzing the choices. Give many people the same information, and they’ll all think about the situation differently, and often will choose slightly different options. As economists, we want to learn more about how people...

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Wildfire smoke and health: 5 question answered

  • Written by Richard E. Peltier, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageWildfire creates an orange glow in a view from a hilltop Oct. 13, 2017, in Geyserville, California. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Editor’s note: The federal government has declared a public health emergency in Northern California due to wildfires burning across 10 counties. One major threat is smoke, which is causing unhealthy air levels...

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Wildfire smoke and health: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Richard E. Peltier, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageWildfire creates an orange glow in a view from a hilltop Oct. 13, 2017, in Geyserville, California. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Editor’s note: The federal government has declared a public health emergency in Northern California due to wildfires burning across 10 counties. One major threat is smoke, which is causing unhealthy air levels...

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LIGO announcement vaults astronomy out of its silent movie era into the talkies

  • Written by Chad Hanna, Assistant Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
imageSupercomputer simulation of a pair of neutron stars colliding.NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. Rezzolla, CC BY

When LIGO detected its first gravitational wave back in September 2015, I was pretty excited to say the least. As part of a decades-long endeavor, our whole team was ecstatic to observe gravitational waves – which are literally ripples...

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Why astrophysicists are over the moon about observing merging neutron stars

  • Written by Roy Kilgard, Research Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University
imageSimulation of two neutron stars merging.NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. Rezzolla, CC BY

When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, first detected gravitational waves from merging black holes, it opened up a new window in astrophysics and provided the most powerful confirmation yet of Einstein’s theory of general...

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