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Millions of refugees could benefit from big data – but we're not using it

  • Written by Anirudh V. S. Ruhil, Professor of Leadership & Public Affairs, Ohio University
Hindu women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for their turn to collect aid at refugee camp in September 2017.AP Photo/Dar Yasin

Today, 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced within their home countries – more than at any other point since the U.N. Refugee Agency began collecting data. Many countries have...

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How should we decide what to do?

  • Written by Lori Gruen, William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
How many times do we wonder, 'what's the right thing to do'?Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA (Helping the homeless Uploaded by Gary Dee, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Most of us are faced with ethical decisions on a regular basis. Some are relatively minor – perhaps your cousin makes a new recipe and it really doesn’t taste good,...

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Why don't STEM majors vote as much as others?

  • Written by Inger Bergom, Senior Researcher, Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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There’s no shortage of talk about the need to get more students to go into STEM majors. But a growing body of research, including our own at the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University, indicates there might also be a need to get more STEM majors to go to the polls.

An analysis that we conducted shows...

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Corporate sponsors of Olympians enter the #MeToo fray

  • Written by George B. Cunningham, Professor of Sport Management, Faculty Affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Director, Laboratory for Diversity in Sport, Texas A&M University
Dick's Sporting Goods presenting Team USA -- including Olympic gymnast Simone Biles -- a check for $236,000.Kevin Wolf/AP Images

Revelations brought to light during the trial of sports doctor Larry Nassar are reverberating.

High-level resignations are piling up at Michigan State University, the physician’s former employer. USA Gymnastics, the...

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Artificial intelligence is the weapon of the next Cold War

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
With artificial intelligence weapons on both sides, are we in a new cold war?Dim Dimich/Shutterstock.com

It is easy to confuse the current geopolitical situation with that of the 1980s. The United States and Russia each accusethe other of interfering in domestic affairs. Russia has annexed territory over U.S. objections, raising concerns about milit...

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Violent past, digital future: Angela Merkel's remarks at Davos

  • Written by Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
Merkel after her address in DavosAP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Two world wars and a genocide have a way of focusing the mind.

Maybe that’s why references to “lessons of the past” are almost ritualistic in addresses such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to the World Economic Forum. Here’s how Merkel checked that box in...

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Macron calls for a 'global contract' at Davos

  • Written by Joshua Cole, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Macron in Davos on Jan. 24, 2018, where he argued that economic growth wasn't an end in itself.AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 24 called for nation-states and businesses to join in a “true global contract” to invest in human capital, and meet the...

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What Trump’s every-country-for-itself rhetoric gets wrong about Davos

  • Written by Stephen D. Smith, Director of Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California

There is a disarming and almost touchingly naive belief among the presenters and the government delegations in the cloistered mountain village of Davos that “creating a shared future in a fractured world” – the title of this year’s World Economic Forum – is actually possible.

To the outside world, the panels and...

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  5. The comeback and dangers of the drug GHB
  6. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's weak-dollar myopia is dangerous
  7. Macron's pledge to wipe out coal is just as meaningless as Trump's plan to revive it
  8. Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside Africa
  9. Why climate change is worsening public health problems
  10. The state of the US solar industry: 5 questions answered
  11. For a North Korean refugee raising her kids in the UK, the past is never far
  12. I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right
  13. How secure is your data when it's stored in the cloud?
  14. The hidden health inequalities that American Indians and Alaskan Natives face
  15. The world on a billionaire's budget
  16. Don't automate the fun out of life
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  18. 4 things you need to know right now to protect yourself from the flu
  19. How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'Lost Einsteins'
  20. DACA isn't just about social justice – legalizing Dreamers makes economic sense too
  21. Successful businesses need proactive leadership – and so does Congress
  22. Is it time for a 21st-century version of 'The Day After'?
  23. Is a unified Korea possible?
  24. Unrest in Iran will continue until religious rule ends
  25. Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration
  26. When it comes to your health, where you live matters
  27. Medicaid work requirements could cost the government more in the long run
  28. Another continuing resolution won't solve the real problem within the Republican Party
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  30. There are better ways to foster solar innovation and save jobs than Trump's tariffs
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  32. Is attraction to an age group another kind of sexual orientation?
  33. What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
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  36. Deportees in Mexico tell of disrupted lives, families and communities
  37. Trump goes to Davos: 4 books he should read on first trip to gathering of global elites
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  41. DeVos speech shows contempt for the agency she heads
  42. What the government shutdown means for the health of Americans
  43. Shutdown under a unified government? Blame Trump
  44. Fungi can help concrete heal its own cracks
  45. Will a federal government shutdown damage the US economy?
  46. 20 years since America's shock over Clinton-Lewinsky affair, public discussions on sexual harassment are changing
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  49. 'Dreamers' could give US economy – and even American workers – a boost
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