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48 hours as a Muslim American: A professor reflects

  • Written by Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Muslim Studies program, Michigan State University

What a difference 48 hours can make.

Last Friday afternoon, before a global audience, former president Bill Clinton (a Christian) and comedian Billy Crystal (a Jew) eulogized “the Greatest,” the most famous Muslim American of all time, Muhammad Ali.

The televised audience also took in Islamic invocations, recitations from the...

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Graphene isn’t the only Lego in the materials-science toy box

  • Written by Peter Byrley, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
imageMaterials science has lots of options for building.dolske/flickr, CC BY-SA

You may have heard of graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, one atom thick, that’s all the rage in materials-science circles, and getting plenty of media hype as well. Reports have trumpeted graphene as an ultra-thin, super-strong, super-conductive, super-flexible...

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How can hospitals possibly prepare for disasters? With practice and planning

  • Written by Sam Shartar, Senior Administrator Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, Emory University

The tragic shooting in Orlando brought dozens of victims to emergency rooms. Now, several of those people have been admitted and are clinging to life. Many across the nation are praying for them and other victims. Without quick response and high-quality emergency medical care, many more than the 49 already reported may have died.

Emergency room...

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Social media is changing our digital news habits – but to varying degrees in US and UK

  • Written by David Levy, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
imageSame news, different medium?Elvin, CC BY-NC

Digital technology has dramatically reshaped the news and media industries in the past decade. We’ve left behind a world where established news brands could rely on reaching large audiences and hence secure advertising revenues. Now there is huge uncertainty about business models, even as digital...

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Finding Nemo – and Dory – is easy. Deciding whether they should be pets is harder

  • Written by Michael Tlusty, Research Faculty, University of Massachusetts Boston
imageUnlike clownfish (Nemo), Pacific blue tang fish (Dory) cannot be bred in captivity. nostri-imago/flickr, CC BY

Coral reefs across the globe are under threat from climate change. Fishing of any kind is often seen as a further assault on these ecosystems, and any perceived increase in fishing, especially when not for subsistence, is often met with...

Read more: Finding Nemo – and Dory – is easy. Deciding whether they should be pets is harder

Two violent men, two symptoms of the same sickness

  • Written by Lisa Wade, Professor of Sociology, Occidental College

America woke up this weekend to the news of the deadliest civilian mass shooting in the nation’s history. The senseless tragedy will undoubtedly evoke anger, sadness and helplessness.

In the meantime, many will forget to think and talk about Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s crime and his “summer vacation” jail sentence: three...

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Another mass shooting – what the experts say

  • Written by Emily Costello, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation

It happened again.

This time a gunman chose Orlando, a city generally associated with families having fun, to open fire on a crowd of people out dancing.

Omar Mateen, 29, a U.S. native, killed 49 people and injured another 53 at the Pulse nightclub. He was killed by authorities at the scene.

In some ways, this attack was unique. It was the largest...

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Gun researchers see a public health emergency in Orlando mass shooting. Here's why.

  • Written by Sandro Galea, Dean, School of Public Health, Boston University
imageFlags at the Washington Monument fly at half staff to honor those killed in Orlando. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Editor’s note: We turned to two public health researchers on gun violence to help us understand the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Florida. Sandro Galea is the dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health. Ziming Xuan...

Read more: Gun researchers see a public health emergency in Orlando mass shooting. Here's why.

Terrorism and tourism: what cities should do to prepare for an attack

  • Written by Lori Pennington-Gray, Professor and Director of Tourism Crisis Management Initiative , University of Florida

Citizens of the U.S. and the world were deeply shocked and saddened when a gunman shot and killed about 50 patrons at an Orlando nightclub this past weekend.

While the shooter’s primary targets were the people enjoying an evening out, a secondary object of such incidents is typically tourism, with the aim of terrorizing a population so much...

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Were this year's Tony Awards only a superficial nod to diversity?

  • Written by Monica White Ndounou, Associate Professor of Drama, Tufts University

As predicted, the star of the 2016 Tony Awards was “Hamilton,” which took home 11 trophies.

Compared with the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 Tony Awards were far more reflective of our multiracial society. Out of 40 acting nominees in plays and musicals, 14 – 35 percent – were people of color. And that didn’t include...

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