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What is voluntary sterilization? A health communication expert unpacks how a legacy of forced sterilization shapes doctor-patient conversations today

  • Written by: Elizabeth Hintz, Assistant Professor of Health Communication, University of Connecticut
imageConversations between patients and their doctors about permanent birth control procedures can at times be fraught and influenced by long-standing stigmas.Courtney Hale/E+ via Getty Images

Sterilization is a safe and effective form of permanent birth control used by more than 220 million couples around the world. Despite its prevalence, however,...

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Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms, signaling a possible shift – or exception – in voting trends

  • Written by: Abby Kiesa, Deputy Director at CIRCLE, Tufts University
imagePeople line up to cast early ballots during the 2022 election at the University of Michigan. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

The November 2022 midterms have come and gone, but there are still some potential lasting implications that could influence the next election season.

One is that young people, aged 18 to 29, had one of the highest voter...

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China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity

  • Written by: Eytan Tepper, Visiting Assistant Professor of Space Governance, Indiana University
imageThree taikonauts rode aboard the Shenzhou 15 mission on their way to China's new Tiangong space station.Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit.

On Nov. 29, 2022, the Shenzhou 15 mission launched from China’s Gobi Desert carrying three taikonauts – the...

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Georgia on the nation's mind: 5 essential reads

  • Written by: Howard Manly, Race + Equity Editor, The Conversation US
imageSen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia waves to a crowd on election night.Win McNamee/Getty Images

Shortly after his reelection on Dec. 6, 2022, Rev. Raphael Warnock talked about his political journey in a state better known for its racist history of suppressing the Black vote.

“I am Georgia,” Warnock said. “A living example and...

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Ada Lovelace's skills with language, music and needlepoint contributed to her pioneering work in computing

  • Written by: Corinna Schlombs, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageAda King, Countess of Lovelace, was more than just another mathematician.Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace by Alfred Edward Chalon via Wikimedia

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed.

Lovelace has been hailed as a...

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How do floating wind turbines work? 5 companies just won the first US leases for building them off California's coast

  • Written by: Matthew Lackner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst

Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible.

Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep – roughly the...

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Amid coup, countercoup claims – what really went down in Peru and why?

  • Written by: Eduardo Gamarra, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
imageClashes on the streets of Peru.Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images)

Peru has a new president following the ouster of former leader Pedro Castillo at the hands of the country’s Congress.

His removal followed an attempt by Castillo to cling to power by dissolving a Congress intent on impeaching him. Castillo’s opponents accused him of...

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White teachers often talk about Black students in racially coded ways

  • Written by: Rowhea Elmesky, Associate Professor of Education, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageEducators stereotype Black students in subtle ways.Jonathan Kirn via Getty Images

When a white Texas middle school teacher told his students in November 2022 that he was “ethnocentric” and thought his race was “superior,” he attempted to explain his position by arguing that he was hardly the only person who held such a view.

&...

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China's Belt and Road infrastructure projects could help or hurt oceans and coasts worldwide

  • Written by: Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
imageConstruction in the Chinese-financed Port City complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oct. 19, 2022. Pradeep Dambarage/NurPhoto via Getty Images

More than one-third of all people in the world live in cities, towns and villages on coasts. They rely on healthy oceans for many things, including food, income, a stable climate and ready connections to nature.

Bu...

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Traditional Buddhist teachings exclude LGBTQ people from monastic life, but change is coming slowly

  • Written by: Jue Liang, Assistant Professor, Denison University
imageNovice Buddhist monks during a mass ordination at Dhamagaya Temple in central Thailand in 2010.AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong

The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and practices are grounded in heterosexual norms. However,...

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  5. Georgia runoff: Candidate quality meant fewer Republicans turned out for Walker
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  7. Russian troops' poor performance and low morale may worsen during a winter of more discontent
  8. Biden signs marriage equality bill into law – but the Respect for Marriage Act has a few key limitations
  9. Harnessing the brain's immune cells to stave off Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
  10. Congress codifies marriage equality – but the Respect for Marriage Act has a few key limitations
  11. Asexual Latter-day Saints face an added dilemma: Finding their place in a tradition focused on marriage
  12. Risers, founders, planners and fillers: 4 career paths to get to the top at nonprofits
  13. Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it's an idea older than Congress itself
  14. How to deal with holiday stress, Danish-style
  15. For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace
  16. Native Hawaiians believe volcanoes are alive and should be treated like people, with distinct rights and responsibilities
  17. Early and mail-in voting: Research shows they don't always bring in new voters
  18. What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It isn’t fear of sea-level rise
  19. Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case
  20. Georgia runoff elections are exciting, but costly for voters and democracy
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  22. Shorter days affect the mood of millions of Americans – a nutritional neuroscientist offers tips on how to avoid the winter blues
  23. Pharma's expensive gaming of the drug patent system is successfully countered by the Medicines Patent Pool, which increases global access and rewards innovation
  24. Text-to-image AI: powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art – and fakes
  25. A judge in Texas is using a recent Supreme Court ruling to say domestic abusers can keep their guns
  26. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's pending promotion sheds new light on his overlooked fight for equal rights after the Civil War
  27. Orthodox Judaism can still be a difficult world for LGBTQ Jews – but in some groups, the tide is slowly turning
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  29. Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss
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  31. How fake foreign news fed political fervor and led to the American Revolution
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  33. Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on campuses – and courts are deciding
  34. Nurses' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination for their children are highly influenced by partisanship, a new study finds
  35. Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear – but the ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science
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  38. Student 'slave auctions' illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of domination and subjugation in US schools
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  40. Genocides persist, nearly 70 years after the Holocaust – but there are recognized ways to help prevent them
  41. Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed
  42. EU plans to set up a new court to prosecute Russia's war on Ukraine – but there's a mixed record on holding leaders like Putin accountable for waging wars
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