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How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future

  • 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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How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving it

  • 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...

Read more: How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving it

Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach to scoring the slam dunk

  • Written by Justin Barber, Clinical Research Manager, University of Kentucky
imageOnly half of a player's slam dunk score is linked to what they do with the ball and their body. Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.

Shawn Kemp was one of my favorites, because he was freaky athletic and dunked so powerfully. Plus, he seemed so...

Read more: Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach to scoring the slam dunk

1 in 4 Americans are covered by Medicaid or CHIP – a program that insures low-income kids

  • Written by Heather Bednarek, Associate Professor of Economics, Saint Louis University
imageMore than 91% of the country has health insurance now.The Good Brigade/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

As of July 2021, a total of 83.6 million Americans were insured through either Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

That’s almost 1 in 4 Americans, with 76.7 million insured through Medicaid and 6.9 million...

Read more: 1 in 4 Americans are covered by Medicaid or CHIP – a program that insures low-income kids

What's insider trading and why it’s a big problem

  • Written by Alexander Kurov, Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Research Chair in Finance, West Virginia University
imageGordon Gekko of ‘Wall Street’ may be the fictional face of insider trading. Ilona Gaynor/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020...

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The US doesn't need to wait for an invasion to impose sanctions on Russia – it could invoke the Magnitsky Act now

  • Written by Keith Brown, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
imageSergei Magnitsky's legacy lives on through sanctions in his name.Andrey Smirnov/AFP via Getty Images)

As Russian military forces have deployed at the Ukraine border, U.S. politicians have been weighing new sanctions to deter an invasion.

In the face of growing tensions, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been working to craft a new package...

Read more: The US doesn't need to wait for an invasion to impose sanctions on Russia – it could invoke the...

Calling the coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' matters – research connects the label with racist bias

  • Written by Brad Bushman, Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State University
imageAsian Americans have been targeted with hate crimes during the pandemic.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

No one wants their geographic region to be associated with a deadly disease. Unfortunately, this has happened in the past with diseases such as “German measles,” “Spanish flu” and “Asiatic cholera.”

It happens...

Read more: Calling the coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' matters – research connects the label with racist bias

Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees made it to the US – here's how the resettlement process works

  • Written by Kathryn Libal, Director, Human Rights Institute, Associate Prof. Social Work and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
imageMohammad Attaie and his wife, Deena, newly arrived from Afghanistan, get assistance from medical translator Jahannaz Afshar at the Valley Health Center TB/Refugee Program in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 9, 2021. AP Photo/Eric Risberg

As of February 2022, some 65,000 Afghans evacuated during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan have settled in U.S....

Read more: Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees made it to the US – here's how the resettlement process works

What's the IOC – and why doesn't it do more about human rights issues related to the Olympics?

  • Written by Yannick Kluch, Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership; Director of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University
imageThis protest outside IOC headquarters in early 2022 objected to the Winter Games being held in China. Valentin Flauraud/AFP via Getty Images

The International Olympic Committee, a nongovernmental organization based in Switzerland that’s independent of any one nation, was founded in 1894. It’s a group of officials who supervise and...

Read more: What's the IOC – and why doesn't it do more about human rights issues related to the Olympics?

The Cold War, modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries

  • Written by Michael De Groot, Assistant Professor, International Studies, Indiana University
imageRussian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

As Russia masses forces and equipment on Ukraine’s border, international tensions over a possible invasion intensify almost daily. Ukraine has emerged as ground zero of what some pundits have...

Read more: The Cold War, modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries

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  4. The Supreme Court could hamstring federal agencies' regulatory power in a high-profile air pollution case
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  7. Can religion and faith combat eco-despair?
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  9. Anti-Asian violence spiked in the US during the pandemic, especially in blue-state cities
  10. Deer, mink and hyenas have caught COVID-19 – animal virologists explain how to find the coronavirus in animals and why humans need to worry
  11. Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin's aim – the threat alone could advance Russia's goals
  12. All American presidents have lied – the question is why and when
  13. The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering
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  17. Does scaring people work when it comes to health messaging? A communication researcher explains how it's gone wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic
  18. Canadian trucker protests show how the loudest voices in the room distort democracy
  19. African wild dogs cope with human development using skills they rely on to compete with other carnivores
  20. Why $73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a flood of lawsuits against gun-makers
  21. What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding
  22. Appeal in Sarah Palin's libel loss could set up Supreme Court test of decades-old media freedom rule
  23. Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing – will monuments honoring people of color replace them?
  24. Toshio Mori endured internment camps and overcame discrimination to become the first Japanese American to publish a book of fiction
  25. How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
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  27. Trust comes when you admit what you don’t know – lessons from child development research
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  33. What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?
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  36. How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence on Moscow
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