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Who will be picked for vice president? Let’s discuss who’s qualified for the job

  • Written by Christopher Devine, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
imageFormer president Donald Trump speaks as potential vice presidential hopefuls Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott look on. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The November presidential election might seem far away, but it’s time for the veepstakes – already. You know, that favorite game of pundits, politicos and political...

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Recognizing when someone is having a seizure – and how you can help during those first critical moments

  • Written by Jacob Pellinen, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageSeizures occur because of sudden and abnormal activity in the brain.koto_feja/E! via Getty Images

Approximately 1 in 26 people develop epilepsy, a condition in which someone experiences recurring and unprovoked seizures. But experiencing a seizure does not always mean a person has epilepsy. Seizures can be provoked by acute head injuries, alcohol...

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Wildlife selfies harm animals − even when scientists share images with warnings in the captions

  • Written by Andrea l. DiGiorgio, Lecturer and Post Doctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology, Princeton University
imageThe right way to photograph wildlife: from a distance, in the animal's natural habitat.Jim Peaco, Yellowstone National Park/Flickr

One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human,...

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Mayorkas impeached: Is Congress on a witch hunt? 5 ways to judge whether oversight is legitimate or politicized

  • Written by Claire Leavitt, Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
imageHouse Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), right, leaves the U.S. Capitol after the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

After a failed vote to impeach him the previous week, Republicans in the House of Representatives mustered the barest...

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Immigrants do work that might not otherwise get done – bolstering the US economy

  • Written by Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University
imageHundreds protested peacefully in Immokalee, Fla., against a state law enacted in 2023 that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants.AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

Although Congress is failing to pass laws to restrict the number of migrants arriving in the U.S., a majority of Americans – about 6 in 10 – believe there’s an...

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Why is free time still so elusive?

  • Written by Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Penn State
imageMassive gains in productivity haven't led to more time free from work.J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

There have been massive gains in productivity over the past century.

So why are people still working so hard for so long?

Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the U.S. The standard American workweek,...

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Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires

  • Written by Rodney Benson, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
imageBillionaire media owners can't change inhospitable market dynamics.Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

For the journalism industry, 2024 is off to a brutal start.

Most spectacularly, the Los Angeles Times recently slashed more than 20% of its newsroom.

Though trouble had long been brewing, the layoffs were particularly disheartening...

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Electric vehicles are suddenly hot − but the industry has traveled a long road to relevance

  • Written by Hovig Tchalian, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Southern California
imageEverything old is new again.Simon Skafar/E+/Getty Images

In 2023, more than 7% of cars sold in the United States were electric vehicles. In some parts of the world, such as Norway, the percentage was a whopping 20%. In California, where I live, almost 60% of people looking for a car in 2021 said they would at least consider getting an EV.

This...

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Why having human remains land on the Moon poses difficult questions for members of several religions

  • Written by Joanne M. Pierce, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross

Sending human remains to the Moon on the first commercial lunar lander, Peregrine 1, on Jan. 8, 2024, along with scientific instruments, caused a controversy.

Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, objected, saying that “the moon holds a sacred place” in Navajo and other tribal traditions and should not be defiled in this way. The...

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Global health research suffers from a power imbalance − decolonizing mentorship can help level the playing field

  • Written by Oluwafemi Atanda Adeagbo, Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
imageEffective collaboration requires addressing hierarchical mindsets.Maryna Terletska/Moment via Getty Images

Mentorship is a cornerstone of the infrastructure supporting global health. Transferring knowledge, developing skills and cultivating a supportive professional environment among researchers and clinicians around the world are key to achieving...

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  1. Immigration reform has always been tough, and rarely happens in election years - 4 things to know
  2. In the face of severe challenges, democracy is under stress – but still supported – across Latin America and the Caribbean
  3. Philadelphia hopes year-round schooling can catch kids up to grade level – will it make a difference?
  4. Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient runoff and turn a profit
  5. Our robot harvests cotton by reaching out and plucking it, like a lizard’s tongue snatching flies
  6. Early polls can offer some insight into candidates’ weak points – but are extremely imprecise
  7. Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself
  8. AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships
  9. Family caregivers face financial burdens, isolation and limited resources − a social worker explains how to improve quality of life for this growing population
  10. A brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US
  11. Can anyone make a citizen’s arrest? The history and legalities of catching criminals yourself
  12. Lorne Michaels, the man behind the curtain at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has been minting comedy gold for nearly 50 years
  13. Are you seeing news reports of voting problems? 4 essential reads on election disinformation
  14. Pakistan’s post-election crisis – how anti-army vote may deliver an unstable government that falls into the military’s hands
  15. Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
  16. Love songs in Hindu devotion – the Tamil poets who took on the female voice to express their intense longing for the divine
  17. Love may be timeless, but the way we talk about it isn’t − the ancient Greeks’ ideas about desire challenge modern-day readers, lovers and even philosophers
  18. Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men
  19. Ads, food and gambling galore − 5 essential reads for the Super Bowl
  20. Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers
  21. From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
  22. Israel is a Jewish nation, but its population is far from a monolith
  23. Why John Dewey’s vision for education and democracy still resonates today
  24. Supreme Court skeptical that Colorado − or any state − should decide for whole nation whether Trump is eligible for presidency
  25. FCC bans robocalls using deepfake voice clones − but AI-generated disinformation still looms over elections
  26. ‘Look for a reversal in a fairly short period of time’ − former federal judge expects Supreme Court will keep Trump on Colorado ballot
  27. El Niño is starting to lose strength after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful − an atmospheric scientist explains what’s ahead for 2024
  28. Sugary handshakes are how cells talk to each other − understanding these name tags can clarify how the immune system works
  29. Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful
  30. The myth of men’s full-time employment
  31. The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4 American adults expected to gamble on the big game
  32. Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard
  33. Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated exactly how much
  34. Breastfeeding benefits mothers as much as babies, but public health messaging often only tells half of the story
  35. Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism
  36. What’s sociology? A sociologist explains why Florida’s college students should get the chance to learn how social forces affect everyone’s lives
  37. DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
  38. Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?
  39. George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
  40. About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it
  41. Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises questions about recovery times
  42. The divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology − Old Man Under the Moon − who helps couples find love
  43. Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and logistical hurdles
  44. Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
  45. Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely
  46. Indonesians head to polls amid concerns over declining democracy, election integrity and vote buying
  47. Michigan mother convicted of manslaughter for school shootings by her son – after buying him a gun and letting him keep it unsecured
  48. More than 78 ‘friends’ of the Supreme Court offer advice on the 14th Amendment and Trump’s eligibility
  49. Trump was not king and can be prosecuted for crimes committed while president: Appeals court places limits on immunity
  50. Supreme Court heads into uncharted, dangerous territory as it considers Trump insurrection case