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BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place

  • Written by Scott Hagan, Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageBody mass index has been the standard measure to classify obesity and overweight for decades. kaipong/iStock via Getty Images

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many health care professionals are questioning one of the key measures that has long been used to define obesity.

On June 14, 2023, the American...

Read more: BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity...

Asian folktales offer moral lessons that help reduce racial prejudice in children

  • Written by Minjeong Kim, Associate professor, UMass Lowell
imageA teacher tells a story to a group of students.Getty Images

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

The moral of the tale is revealing and contains a powerful anti-racism message: What...

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Ja Morant shows how a 'good guy with a gun' can never be Black

  • Written by A. Joseph Dial, DISCO Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University
imageThe NBA suspended Ja Morant for 25 games after he posted a video of himself brandishing a gun.Justin Ford/Getty Images

“Man enough to pull a gun, be man enough to squeeze it,” rapped NBA superstar Allen Iverson on his song “40 Bars.”

This was two weeks prior to the 2000-01 NBA season, one in which Iverson would be named...

Read more: Ja Morant shows how a 'good guy with a gun' can never be Black

Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

  • Written by Robert Glennon, Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
imageA water pump outside a home on the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, N.M.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to...

Read more: Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

Titan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why most ocean science is conducted with crewless submarines

  • Written by Nina Mahmoudian, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
imageResearchers are increasingly using small, autonomous underwater robots to collect data in the world's oceans.NOAA Teacher at Sea Program,NOAA Ship PISCES, CC BY-SA

Rescuers spotted debris from the tourist submarine Titan on the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic on June 22, 2023, indicating that the vessel suffered a catastrophic failure and...

Read more: Titan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why...

Fear trumps anger when it comes to data breaches – angry customers vent, but fearful customers don't come back

  • Written by Rajendran Murthy, Professor of Marketing, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageOne-third of customers will return to a hacked site without even changing their password, according to a recent study.d3sign/Moment Collection/Getty Images

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When a person is notified of a data breach involving their personal information, if they react with a feeling of...

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How pardoning extremists undermines the rule of law

  • Written by Michael H. Becker, Doctoral Student, Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology, American University
imageFormer President Donald Trump has said he may pardon recently convicted leaders of the Proud Boys. Here, Proud Boys members protest in Salem, Ore., on Jan. 8, 2022.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / AFP via Getty Images

In the past 10 years, there has been an increase in far-right political violence in the United States. While scholars have pointed to several...

Read more: How pardoning extremists undermines the rule of law

How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imagePersonal computers started an information technology revolution. Will AI bring similarly dramatic changes? Bettmann via Getty Images

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence has drawn attention not only to the astonishing capacity of algorithms to mimic humans but to the reality that these algorithms could displace many humans in their...

Read more: How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be

Ocean heat is off the charts – here's what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

  • Written by Annalisa Bracco, Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageThe Indian Ocean's heat is having effects on land, too.NOAA Coral Reef Watch

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.

The sea of Japan is more than 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees...

Read more: Ocean heat is off the charts – here's what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

Islam's call to prayer is ringing out in more US cities -- affirming a long and growing presence of Muslims in America

  • Written by Leila Tarakji, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
imageMinneapolis allows call to prayer to be publicly broadcast five times per day.Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five times a day.

In April 2023, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a change to...

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  13. AI could shore up democracy – here's one way
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  15. On International Yoga Day, lessons from the first American yogi – Henry David Thoreau
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  17. Mr. Modi comes to Washington – The Indian prime minister's visit could strengthen ties with the US, but also raises some delicate issues
  18. Fascism lurks behind the dangerous conflation of the terms 'partisan' and 'political'
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  40. EU files antitrust charges against Google – here's how the ad tech at the heart of the case works
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