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Satellites zoom in on cities' hottest neighborhoods to help combat the urban heat island effect

  • Written by Daniel P. Johnson, Associate Professor of Geography, IUPUI
imageA street fan provides relief on a hot summer day in New York City.Stephen Chernin/Getty Images

Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer...

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Where the witches were men: A historian explains what magic looked like in early modern Russia

  • Written by Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
image'A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,' a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov.Tretyakov Gallery/Wikimedia Commons

The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But that hasn’t always been the face of sorcery.

Most of Catholic and Protestant Europe embraced the idea of...

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When all else fails to explain American violence, blame a rapper and hip-hop music

  • Written by A.D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
imageYoung Thug performs onstage on March 17, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Amy E. Price/Getty Images for SXSW

The day after the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson promptly blamed the violence on rap music and video games.

“Kids are exposed to all kinds of horrible stuff nowadays,” the...

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Russians with diverse media diet more likely to oppose Ukraine war

  • Written by Ekaterina Romanova, Ph.D. Student in Mass Communications, University of Florida
imageTelegram users in Russia get access to more information than their compatriots who only watch television.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, public opinion polls have shown Russians overwhelmingly supporting the action, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has called...

Read more: Russians with diverse media diet more likely to oppose Ukraine war

Elder abuse comes in many forms – appropriate Adult Protective Services referrals can help reduce mistreatment

  • Written by Marian Liu, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
imageElder abuse can take many forms, including financial, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, along with neglect.Barcin/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Before the pandemic, around 1 in 10 older adults in the U.S. experienced elder mistreatment. In 2020, this number doubled to 1 in 5 – a nearly 84% increase.

Mistreatment comes in many forms,...

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Patriarchy and purity culture combine to silence women in the Southern Baptist Convention – and are blocking efforts to address the sexual abuse scandal

  • Written by Julie Ingersoll, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Florida
imageA woman describes being abused sexually by a Southern Baptist minister, outside the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in June 2019, in Birmingham, Ala. AP Photo/Julie Bennett

The Southern Baptist Convention 2022 annual meeting overwhelmingly voted to approve reforms to address sexual abuse in the denomination. A devastating yearlong...

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From 'dada' to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well

  • Written by Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
imageEven supervillains need the odd day off.Katja Ogrin/Redferns via Getty Images

Movie legend has it that the identity of Luke Skywalker’s father was always hiding in plain sight – well, at least through a subtle naming clue. “Darth Vader” does, after all, have a distinct paternal ring to it linguistically. Indeed, had the big...

Read more: From 'dada' to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well

'Show' trial of foreign fighters in Donetsk breaks with international law – and could itself be a war crime

  • Written by Robert Goldman, Professor of Law, American University
imageBritish citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim.AP Photo

The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway region in Ukraine presents a serious deviation from international law – one that in itself represents a war crime.

Sentencing came on June...

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There is no one 'religious view' on abortion: A scholar of religion, gender and sexuality explains

  • Written by Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageDemonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in 2014.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Catholic Church’s official line on abortion, and even on any artificial birth control, is well known: Don’t do it.

Surveys of how American Catholics live their lives, though, tell a different story.

The vast majority of Catholic women have used...

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Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?

  • Written by Brian Stewart, Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University
imagePresident William Howard Taft and his wife rode in this steam-powered automobile in 1909.AP Photoimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Could steam-powered cars decrease the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? – Emma, age 16,...

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