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The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4 American adults expected to gamble on the big game

  • Written by Thomas Oates, Associate Professor of Sport Media, University of Iowa
imageBillions of dollars are being bet on the matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

A record 67.8 million American adults are expected to bet US$23.1 billion on Super Bowl LVIII, according to a new survey conducted by Morning Consult for the American Gaming Association. The estimated number of...

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Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Senior Environment + Cities Editor, The Conversation
imageLarge industrial facilities like this oil refinery outside Houston are major sources of fine particulate air pollution.AP Photo/David J. Phillip

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine particulate air pollution, known as PM2.5 because the particles are smaller than 2.5 millionths of...

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Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated exactly how much

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University

Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day – an occasion that traditionally combines romance with big business. One of the biggest businesses is selling roses, which Americans increasingly love. Back in 1989, about 1 billion cut roses were sold annually in the U.S. By 2023, that had risen to roughly 2.8 billion – enough to give every adult in...

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Breastfeeding benefits mothers as much as babies, but public health messaging often only tells half of the story

  • Written by Tisha Felder, Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences, University of South Carolina
imageBreastfeeding lowers the risk of diabetes as well as breast and ovarian cancers for mothers.Goodboy Picture Company/E+ via Getty Images

Four babies are born every second in the world, and there are only two options for their first food at birth: human milk or formula.

Global and U.S. health authorities agree, however, that human milk provides the...

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Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism

  • Written by Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
imagePeople wave Russian, Palestinian and Hamas flags.Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

The war in Gaza isn’t only challenging the geopolitics of the Middle East: It is also complicating matters in Ukraine, as Russia seeks to capitalize on growing anti-Israeli sentiment in the Global South.

Russia was slow to condemn the Oct. 7 attack in Israel and...

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What’s sociology? A sociologist explains why Florida’s college students should get the chance to learn how social forces affect everyone’s lives

  • Written by Joya Misra, Provost Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
imageStudying this discipline helps you understand how society works.FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images

In January 2024, Florida officially voted to reduce the number of students enrolled in sociology courses.

That might sound baffling if you haven’t tuned into this cultural skirmish. But for me – I’m the American Sociological...

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DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies

  • Written by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University
imagePredictive policing aimed to identify crime hot spots and 'chronic' offenders but missed the mark.Patrick T. Fallon for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Predictive policing has been shown to be an ineffective and biased policing tool. Yet, the Department of Justice has been funding the crime surveillance and analysis technology for years and...

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Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?

  • Written by Josh Woods, Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
imageYouth flag football players run drills with their coach before a game in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 8, 2023.Megan Jelinger/The Washington Post via Getty Images

One hundred years into the future, what if millions of people gathered every February, not to watch the Super Bowl, but to instead watch the annual world flag football championship?

Once a casual...

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George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

  • Written by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
imageIt took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic.GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images

February 12, 1924, was a frigid day in New York City. But that didn’t stop an intrepid group of concertgoers from gathering in midtown Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall for “An Experiment in Modern Music.” The organizer, bandleader P...

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About a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it

  • Written by Jason Walker, Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Psychology, Adler University
imageBullying at work often includes a power imbalance.Vladimir Vladimirov/E+ via Getty Images

The phenomenon of bullying, harassment and sexual abuse in workplaces throughout North America is widespread and harmful to both individuals and organizations. In fact, bullying at work affects up to 30% of workersover time.

As practitionersand researchers who...

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  2. The divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology − Old Man Under the Moon − who helps couples find love
  3. Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and logistical hurdles
  4. Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
  5. Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely
  6. Indonesians head to polls amid concerns over declining democracy, election integrity and vote buying
  7. Michigan mother convicted of manslaughter for school shootings by her son – after buying him a gun and letting him keep it unsecured
  8. More than 78 ‘friends’ of the Supreme Court offer advice on the 14th Amendment and Trump’s eligibility
  9. Trump was not king and can be prosecuted for crimes committed while president: Appeals court places limits on immunity
  10. Supreme Court heads into uncharted, dangerous territory as it considers Trump insurrection case
  11. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of unregulated products that necessitate caveats and caution
  12. Dietary supplements and protein powders fall under a ‘wild west’ of products that necessitate caveats and caution
  13. Black travelers want authentic engagement, not checkboxes
  14. Driving the best possible bargain now isn’t the best long-term strategy, according to game theory
  15. Peer review isn’t perfect − I know because I teach others how to do it and I’ve seen firsthand how it comes up short
  16. A two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians might actually be closer than ever
  17. AI helps students skip right to the good stuff in this intro programming course
  18. Perils of pet poop – so much more than just unsightly and smelly, it can spread disease
  19. Self-extinguishing batteries could reduce the risk of deadly and costly battery fires
  20. From rebel to retail − inside Bob Marley’s posthumous musical and merchandising empire
  21. It’s the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac − associated with good fortune, wisdom and success
  22. Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place
  23. Enemy collaboration in occupied Ukraine evokes painful memories in Europe – and the response risks a rush to vigilante justice
  24. Why Elon Musk’s ‘self-driving’ of Tesla’s board and its decision to pay him $56B collided with the law – and what happens next
  25. Why do people and animals need to breathe? A biologist explains why you need a constant source of oxygen
  26. What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them
  27. Studying lake deposits in Idaho could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars
  28. Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages
  29. Amid growing legalization, cannabis in culture and politics is the focus of this anthropology course
  30. Race is already a theme of the 2024 presidential election – continuing an American tradition
  31. US raids in Iraq and Syria: How retaliatory airstrikes affect network of Iran-backed militias
  32. US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria − a national security expert explains the message they send
  33. El período colonial de América Latina fue mucho menos católico de lo que parece, a pesar de los intentos de la Inquisición de controlar la religión
  34. Los carteles de ‘No se acepta efectivo’ son una mala noticia para millones de estadounidenses sin cuenta bancaria
  35. Biden is campaigning against the Lost Cause and the ‘poison’ of white supremacy in South Carolina
  36. An independent commission is racing to redraw Detroit’s voting maps under a federal court order − but the change may not elect more Black candidates
  37. From throwing soup to suing governments, there’s strategy to climate activism’s seeming chaos − here’s where it’s headed next
  38. Training an animal? An ethicist explains how and why your dog − but not your frog − can be punished
  39. A former federal judge explains what it’s like to be on the bench in a high-profile trial like those involving Donald Trump’s criminal charges
  40. Does Trump actually have to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll? Not immediately, at least
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  42. Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
  43. Students with disabilities often left on the sidelines when it comes to school sports
  44. Billy Joel is back for an encore − but why did he wait so long to turn the lights back on?
  45. Why Taylor Swift is an antihero to the GOP − but Democrats should know all too well that her endorsement won’t mean it’s all over now
  46. 3 years on from coup, economic sanctions look unlikely to push Myanmar back to democracy
  47. Funding for refugees has long been politicized − punitive action against UNRWA and Palestinians fits that pattern
  48. Are social media apps ‘dangerous products’? 2 scholars explain how the companies rely on young users but fail to protect them
  49. Republicans and Democrats consider each other immoral – even when treated fairly and kindly by the opposition
  50. AI can help − and hurt − student creativity