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Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager? It's complicated

  • Written by Christopher A. Frilingos, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
imageThe holy family.CC BY

On Nov. 13, a fifth Alabama woman came forward to accuse Roy Moore, former judge and current GOP Senate candidate, of sexual assault when she was 16. Condemnation of Moore has been widespread, but Moore himself vehemently deniesthese allegations. He has backing from many in Alabama.

One of his most controversial statements of...

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How Obamacare changed the love lives of young adults

  • Written by Joelle Abramowitz, Assistant Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
imageHealth insurance impacts decisions about contraception, marriage and more.Kamil Macniak/shutterstock.com

It seems that each week, a new development about the Affordable Care Act calls into question the future of health care in the U.S. Such policy changes may also have much more far-reaching effects on Americans’ major life decisions.

I am an...

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Learning to care for dying's forgotten

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageSurviving friends and family of a person who dies often go through deep grief. Ker_vil/Shutterstock.com

In most U.S. medical schools, lessons about death naturally focus on the care of the dying patient. But there is another group of people to whom health professionals need to learn to attend: the dying patient’s family and friends. In...

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Nobody is going to bail out Venezuela

  • Written by Henkel Garcia U, Finance Instructor, Professional Studies Extension Programme, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)

Venezuela, the South American country convulsed by economic and humanitarian catastrophe, has defaulted on some of its debt after missing an interest payment due in October.

Even as investors meet in Caracas to discuss restructuring US$60 billion in foreign debt, the country is in urgent need of international financial assistance.

Yet few nations...

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Para Venezuela en default, no hay rescate

  • Written by Henkel Garcia U, Finance Instructor, Professional Studies Extension Programme, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB)

Sufriendo colapso económico y crisis humanitaria, Venezuela ha entrado en default después de que incumpliera el abono de los intereses en dos bonos.

El país necesita urgentemente ayuda financiera internacional, pero a esta altura resulta insensato esperar una mejora de la economía doméstica, la aceptación...

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Most mass killers are men who have also attacked family

  • Written by Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, University Without Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageMost mass killers have one common trait – a propensity for domestic violence.sdecoret/Shutterstock.com

What do most mass killers have in common?

As a researcher who studies coercive control in intimate relationships, I can point out a few key characteristics. First, they are men. Additionally, they have a history of controlling and abusing...

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With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there's a likely culprit

  • Written by Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens.

In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression – surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13-...

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The story of America, as told through diet books

  • Written by Adrienne Rose Bitar, Postdoctoral associate, Cornell University
imageJohn Fekner's art warned others of toxins poisoning the planet. Fekner at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

“The South Beach Diet” sold 23 million diet books. Dr. Atkins sold another 15 million. Even lesser-known diet books like Christian best-sellers “The Maker’s Diet” regularly sell millions of copies.

This isn’t a...

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Can cities get smarter about extreme weather?

  • Written by Clark Miller, Professor of the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
imageThe intensity of heavy downpours in Houston has increased dramatically since the 1950s, leading some people to argue the city's disaster planning and infrastructure are not up-to-date. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Remember the movie “Moneyball”? The Oakland A’s are struggling, financially and on the baseball field. Then they...

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Researchers find pathological signs of Alzheimer's in dolphins, whose brains are much like humans'

  • Written by Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi, Assistant Scientist, University of Florida
imageA bottlenose dolphin leaping from the ocean in Panama.Christian Wittman/Shutterstock.com

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the U.S. recently reported the discovery of pathological signs of Alzheimer’s disease in dolphins, animals whose brains are similar in many ways to those of humans.

This is the first time that these signs...

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  13. The opioid crisis is at its worst in rural areas. Can telemedicine help?
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  16. Why solar 'microgrids' are not a cure-all for Puerto Rico's power woes
  17. How the tax package would slam higher ed
  18. Public shaming of workplace harassers may force employers to stop protecting them
  19. Democrats' sweep of Virginia shows the state is moving beyond its Confederate past
  20. The emotional challenges of student veterans on campus
  21. The magazine that inspired Rolling Stone
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  23. The climate science report Trump hoped to ignore will resonate outside of Washington, DC
  24. As angry voters reject major parties, Mexico's 2018 presidential race grows chaotic
  25. GOP plan to tax college endowments like Yale's and Harvard's would be neither fair nor effective
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  38. Improving women's lives through energy: What Rick Perry got right and wrong
  39. Why social media may not be so good for democracy
  40. Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning
  41. How citizen investigators can collaborate on crowdsourced fact-checking
  42. Maria will fundamentally change US policy toward Puerto Rico
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  45. 'Voodoo economics' makes a comeback in Republican tax plan enriching the rich
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