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Burying the past and building the future in post-apartheid South Africa

  • Written by Alma Diamond, Candidate, Doctor of Juridical Science, New York University
imageFormer South African president Nelson Mandela on his 91st birthday in 2009. Media24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

With the recent deaths in 2021 of South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu on Dec. 26 and Frederik Willem (F.W.) de Klerk on Nov. 11, three of the men that laid the foundation to transform South African society are no longer able to see...

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Think therapy is navel-gazing? Think again

  • Written by Steven Sandage, Professor of psychology of religion and theology, Boston University
imageMany clients come to therapy wanting to look beyond themselves – talking about relationships, values and even spirituality.SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

Midway through a recent lecture about my psychology research, a bright graduate student voiced a familiar question.

“I have heard psychotherapy makes people more...

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What is 3G and why is it being shut down? An electrical engineer explains

  • Written by Mai Vu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
imageThe sun is setting on 3G networks.Ted/Flickr, CC BY-NC

On Feb. 22, 2022, AT&T is scheduled to turn off its 3G cellular network. T-Mobile is scheduled to turn its off on July 1, 2022, and Verizon is slated to follow suit on Dec. 31, 2022.

The vast majority of cellphones in service operate on 4G/LTE networks, and the world has begun the transition...

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Farmers are overusing insecticide-coated seeds, with mounting harmful effects on nature

  • Written by John F. Tooker, Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State
imagePlanting corn near Dwight, Ill., April 23, 2020. Virtually all corn seeds planted in the U.S. are coated with neonicotinoid insecticides.Scott Olson/Getty Images

Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north. As farmers plant, they will deploy vast quantities of insecticides...

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Ukraine crisis: Putin recognizes breakaway regions, Biden orders limited sanctions – 5 essential reads

  • Written by Naomi Schalit, Senior Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation US
imageRussia's President Vladimir Putin, right, signed decrees recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics on February 21, 2022. Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS via Getty Images

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a provocative address that could be construed as a pretext to war,...

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How scammers like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler exploit a core feature of human nature

  • Written by Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University
imageAnna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, during her trial in April 2019. Sorokin is the subject of a new Netflix miniseries.Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Maybe she had so much money she just lost track of it. Maybe it was all a misunderstanding.

That’s how Anna Sorokin’s marks explained away the supposed German heiress’s...

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A mild-mannered biker triggered a huge debate over humans' role in climate change – in the early 20th century

  • Written by Sylvia G. Dee, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
imageGuy Stewart Callendar connected carbon dioxide concentrations with rising temperatures.GS Callendar Archive, University of East Anglia

In 1938, a British engineer and amateur meteorologist made a discovery that set off a fierce debate about climate change.

Scientists had known for decades that carbon dioxide could trap heat and warm the planet. But...

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Why do humans have bones instead of cartilage like sharks?

  • Written by Michael Heithaus, Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education and Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
imageCartilage makes this scalloped hammerhead shark's body flexible.NOAA NMFS, CC BYimage

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.

Why do humans have bones instead of cartilage like sharks? – Natalya N., age 12, Aliso Viejo, California

Fir...

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Why Ukrainian Americans are committed to preserving Ukrainian culture – and national sovereignty

  • Written by Katja Kolcio, Associate Professor of Dance and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
imageThe author's father, Wolodymyr 'Mirko' Pylyshenko, pictured in an ID card at a German displacement camp for Ukrainians.Katja Kolcio

As a child, I would wait with anticipation for my parents to return from trips to the Soviet Union. Often they brought gifts like a few loaves of hearty brown bread, or a wheel of briny, homemade cheese. Sometimes...

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What will the Winter Olympics look like in a warming world? Snowmaking can defy climate change for only so long

  • Written by Steven R. Fassnacht, Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
imageAlmost all of the snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics came from machines.AP Photo/Gregory Bull

The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.

When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took place...

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  1. How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games
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  3. How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving it
  4. Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach to scoring the slam dunk
  5. 1 in 4 Americans are covered by Medicaid or CHIP – a program that insures low-income kids
  6. What's insider trading and why it’s a big problem
  7. The US doesn't need to wait for an invasion to impose sanctions on Russia – it could invoke the Magnitsky Act now
  8. Calling the coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' matters – research connects the label with racist bias
  9. Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees made it to the US – here's how the resettlement process works
  10. What's the IOC – and why doesn't it do more about human rights issues related to the Olympics?
  11. The Cold War, modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries
  12. What are false flag attacks – and could Russia make one work in the information age?
  13. Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport
  14. Happy Twosday! Why numbers like 2/22/22 have been too fascinating for over 2,000 years
  15. The Supreme Court could hamstring federal agencies' regulatory power in a high-profile air pollution case
  16. Want better child care? Invest in entrepreneurial training for child care workers
  17. Female business travelers pay less than their male colleagues because they tend to book earlier
  18. Can religion and faith combat eco-despair?
  19. Yoko Ono's prophetic vision of self-care
  20. Anti-Asian violence spiked in the US during the pandemic, especially in blue-state cities
  21. Deer, mink and hyenas have caught COVID-19 – animal virologists explain how to find the coronavirus in animals and why humans need to worry
  22. Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin's aim – the threat alone could advance Russia's goals
  23. All American presidents have lied – the question is why and when
  24. The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering
  25. Super Bowl ads turn up the volume on cryptocurrency buzz: 6 essential reads about digital money and the promise of blockchain
  26. For bullied teens, online school offered a safe haven
  27. Despite its disastrous effects, COVID-19 offers some gifts to medicine – an immunology expert explains what it can teach us about autoimmune disease
  28. Does scaring people work when it comes to health messaging? A communication researcher explains how it's gone wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic
  29. Canadian trucker protests show how the loudest voices in the room distort democracy
  30. African wild dogs cope with human development using skills they rely on to compete with other carnivores
  31. Why $73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a flood of lawsuits against gun-makers
  32. What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding
  33. Appeal in Sarah Palin's libel loss could set up Supreme Court test of decades-old media freedom rule
  34. Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing – will monuments honoring people of color replace them?
  35. Toshio Mori endured internment camps and overcame discrimination to become the first Japanese American to publish a book of fiction
  36. How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
  37. Girls still fall behind boys in top scores for AP math exams
  38. Trust comes when you admit what you don’t know – lessons from child development research
  39. After the FDA issued warnings about antidepressants, youth suicides rose and mental health care dropped
  40. How recess helps students learn
  41. Why do people get diarrhea?
  42. Technology is revolutionizing how intelligence is gathered and analyzed – and opening a window onto Russian military activity around Ukraine
  43. First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
  44. What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?
  45. Physics and psychology of cats – an (improbable) conversation
  46. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
  47. How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence on Moscow
  48. What is the ‘social cost of carbon’? 2 energy experts explain after court ruling blocks Biden's changes
  49. Whether up in smoke or down the toilet, missing presidential records are a serious concern
  50. In research studies and in real life, placebos have a powerful healing effect on the body and mind