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Michigan school shooting shows how violence can transition from online threats to real-world tragedy

  • Written by Mia Bloom, Professor and fellow at Evidence Based Cyber Security Program, GSU, Georgia State University
imageEthan Crumbley being arraigned on charges including murder.AP Photo/Paul Sancya

The warning signs were there.

In the days leading up to the deadliest school shooting of 2021 in the U.S., 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley made a series of disturbing comments and messages – both online and in a drawing. He had been caught at school searching online for...

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Grammy winner explains why Adele is right -- album tracks should not be shuffled

  • Written by Jose V Ruiz-Resto, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Florida
image30, going on 33 1/3.Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

For as long as albums have existed, they have offered listeners wonder, hope, truth and reality concerning the state of the human condition.

This is achieved through a group effort. Artists, producers, songwriters, engineers, artwork designers and liner note writers carefully curate and present a...

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Stephen Sondheim's 'Assassins' lays bare the bizarre role of guns in American culture

  • Written by Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University
imageGreat playwrights have always used the theater to narrate and interrogate the history of their society.Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images

Long before the numbing regularity of school shootings, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the current Supreme Court debate over whether to further relax gun laws, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was sounding the...

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Diversity helps nonprofits accomplish more when staff from different backgrounds can connect

  • Written by Brad R. Fulton, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management, Indiana University
imageNonprofits are seeking to diversify their leadership.MoMo Productions/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Increasing staff diversity does not automatically make a nonprofit more effective. But such organizations can benefit from that change if they can help their employees...

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Making a difference without millions – how Americans give

  • Written by Thalia Plata, Editorial Intern
imageHow do regular people participate in philanthropy? fotosipsak/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Can everyday people make a difference in their communities without millions of dollars? Lucy Bernholz, a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, believes that philanthropy is far more multifaceted than...

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In the fight against climate change, China is doing more than you think – but still not enough

  • Written by Phillip Stalley, Endowed Professor of Environmental Diplomacy & Associate Professor of Political Science, DePaul University
imageChina has more solar power capacity than any other country and makes many of the world's solar cells, but coal is still its top energy source.Yang Min/Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

When it comes to climate change, no nation is more important than China. It consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined, and it is the leading...

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California's water supplies are in trouble as climate change worsens natural dry spells, especially in the Sierra Nevada

  • Written by Roger Bales, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
imageSeveral of California's reservoirs were at less than one-third of their capacity in early December 2021.Martha Conklin, CC BY-ND

California is preparing for a third straight year of drought, and officials are tightening limits on water use to levels never seen so early in the water year. Most of the state’s water reservoirs are well below...

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How Christmas became an American holiday tradition, with a Santa Claus, gifts and a tree

  • Written by Thomas Adam, Associate Professor of International and Global Studies, University of Arkansas
imageThe pagan tradition of celebrating the winter solstice with bonfires on Dec. 21 inspired the early Christian celebrations of Christmas.Gpointstudio/ Image Source via Getty Images

Each season, the celebration of Christmas has religious leaders and conservatives publicly complaining about the commercialization of the holiday and the growing lack of...

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Modern-day culture wars are playing out on historic tours of slaveholding plantations

  • Written by Kelley Fanto Deetz, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
imageThese statues of enslaved young boys are part of a modern-day depiction of southern plantation life at the Whitney Museum in Louisiana. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation is the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the home of four generations of the Lee...

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How did Uncle Sam become a symbol for the United States?

  • Written by Paul Bruski, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Iowa State University
imageYou never know where Uncle Sam will make an appearance.David McNew/Getty Imagesimage

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.

How did Uncle Sam become a symbol for the United States? Henry E., age 10, Somerville, Massachusetts

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