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Babies can learn the value of persistence by watching grownups stick with a challenge

  • Written by Julia Leonard, Ph.D. Student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageWhen you quit in frustration, little eyes are watching and learning.Victor Maschek/Shutterstock.com

You’re at home trying to make fresh tomato sauce, but can’t seem to get the tomatoes out of their plastic container from the grocery store. The bottom latch is not opening, so you pull harder. Although you’ve never seen this type of...

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Why Trump's tirades are losing their potency

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
imageWorld leaders listen to President Trump speak at the General Assembly. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

President Trump on September 19 gave his inaugural speech to the United Nations General Assembly, where he characterized North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man on a suicide mission.” He also threatened to “totally destroy”...

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The history of the persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya

  • Written by Engy Abdelkader, Rutgers University

Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.

The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” whereby one group...

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Chasing the flame: Does media coverage of wildfires probe deeply enough?

  • Written by Adrianne Kroepsch, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Colorado School of Mines
imageTrees burn in the High Park wildfire near Fort Collins, Colorado, June 17, 2012.USFS, CC BY

It is the dry season in western states, which means that large swaths of land are burning or smoldering and are likely to remain that way until the snows arrive. The 2017 wildfire year started earlier and has scorched more acreage than normal. It is also far...

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How Trump could undermine the US solar boom

  • Written by Llewelyn Hughes, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University

Tumbling prices for solar energy have helped stoke demand among U.S. homeowners, businesses and utilities for electricity powered by the sun. But that could soon change.

President Donald Trump – whose proposed 2018 budget would slash support for alternative energy – may get a new opportunity to undermine the solar power market by...

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Study: More, and more diverse, US college students voted in 2016

  • Written by Nancy Thomas, Director of the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Tufts University
imageAP

Whether motivated by support for particular policies or enthusiasm – or ire – toward the candidates, the 2016 election captured the attention of U.S. college and university students nationwide.

That’s the finding of a new study of students at more than 1,000 U.S. institutions released by the Institute for Democracy and Higher...

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Comics captured America's growing ambivalence about the Vietnam War

  • Written by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
imageA Panel from the Marvel Comics series 'The 'Nam.'Marvel Comics

In America’s imagination, the Vietnam War is not so much celebrated as it is assiduously contemplated. This inward-looking approach is reflected in films like “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” best-selling novels and popular memoirs that dwell on the...

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'Medicare for all' could be cheaper than you think

  • Written by Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageSome of the original advocates for Medicare in the 1960s hoped to eventually extend it to everyone.AP Photo

Public support for single-payer health care has been rising in recent months amid failed Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

That’s perhaps why Sen. Bernie Sanders on September 13 introduced a new version of...

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The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon -- and those who returned

  • Written by Jana Lipman, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
imageVietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975.National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, Box 19, declassification number 984082, CC BY

More than 120,000 people fled Vietnam after the North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30, 1975.

This chaotic evacuation has been captured in iconic photos, documentary...

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Why it's offensive to offer a lamb dinner to the Hindu god Ganesha

  • Written by Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
imageThe Hindu god Ganesha.Anant Nath Sharma, CC BY-NC-ND

A recent ad from the meat industry in Australia, seeking to promote lamb as a food that people from a wide range of religious backgrounds can consume, has given offenseto many Hindus in Australia and internationally.

In Australia, the ad prompted a complaint by the High Commission of India. In the...

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