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Can religion and faith combat eco-despair?

  • Written by Rita D. Sherma, Associate Professor of Dharma Studies, Graduate Theological Union
imageThere's a growing belief that teachings from religious faiths belong in the discussion around environmental protection. ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images

Scientists regularly study the ongoing degradation of Earth’s environment and track the changes wrought by a warming planet. Economists warn that intensifying disasters are harming people’s...

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Yoko Ono's prophetic vision of self-care

  • Written by Brigid Cohen, Associate Professor of Music, New York University
imageTo Yoko Ono, imaginative acts were a form of survival.Susan Wood/Getty Images

Light a match and watch till it goes out. Go to the middle of Central Park Pond and drop all your jewelry. Scream against the sky.

When a young Yoko Ono formulated these actions in the 1950s and 1960s, they heralded a bracingly quirky vision for the arts as a therapeutic...

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Anti-Asian violence spiked in the US during the pandemic, especially in blue-state cities

  • Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
imageAnti-Asian attacks killed nine people in 2021, including 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, seen in a photo held by his daughter Monthanus Ratanapakdee.AP Photo/Terry Chea

It’s widely known that Asian Americans felt – and were – persecutedduring the pandemic. But the extent of this violence, and its uneven geographic distribution...

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Deer, mink and hyenas have caught COVID-19 – animal virologists explain how to find the coronavirus in animals and why humans need to worry

  • Written by Sue VandeWoude, University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Director of the One Health Institute, Colorado State University
imageWhite-tailed deer are one of the few wild species that scientists have found to be infected with the coronavirus – at least so far.Andrew C/WikimediaCommons, CC BY

In April 2020, tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo made the news when they came down with COVID-19. In the months following these surprising diagnoses, researchers and veterinarians...

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Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin's aim – the threat alone could advance Russia's goals

  • Written by Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
imageWhat he wants. What he really, really wants?Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out.

A diplomatic solution may yet provide an off-ramp for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose placement of tens of thousands of troops along Russia’s border with its smaller neighbor...

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All American presidents have lied – the question is why and when

  • Written by Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
imageCritics of President Joe Biden have accused him of lying. Most American presidents have been accused of deception.Win McNamee/Getty Images

Those who dislike a president tend to emphasize the frequency or skill with which he lies.

During the Trump administration, for instance, The Washington Post kept a running database of the president’s...

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The Ancient Greeks also lived through a plague, and they too blamed their leaders for their suffering

  • Written by Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
imageA painting by Nicolas Poussin titled 'The Athenian Plague' shows people dying of the plague.Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a scholar of ancient Greek literature, I have returned again and again to the Greek historian Thucydides to try understand the historical parallels to the American...

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Super Bowl ads turn up the volume on cryptocurrency buzz: 6 essential reads about digital money and the promise of blockchain

  • Written by Eric Smalley, Science + Technology Editor

Super Bowl 2022 was dubbed Crypto Bowl even before the game was played because of the advertising blitz cryptocurrency companies unleashed during the annual televised spectacle. The ads, featuring a bevy of celebrities and gimmicks, aimed to convince viewers that cryptocurrencies are the wave of the future.

Preying on FOMO – that is, the fear...

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For bullied teens, online school offered a safe haven

  • Written by Hannah L. Schacter, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
imageBullying happened more during in-person school than when schooling was online.FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

Online school during the COVID-19 pandemic was hard on many teens, but new research Ico-authored has found a potential silver lining: Students were bullied less during remote instruction than while attending classes in person.

We learned this...

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Despite its disastrous effects, COVID-19 offers some gifts to medicine – an immunology expert explains what it can teach us about autoimmune disease

  • Written by Dario Ghersi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageImmunologists are studying how the SARS-CoV-2 virus interacts with antibodies in the immune system. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

For all the misery that the pandemic has wrought, it has also opened up a vast storehouse of knowledge about medical issues beyond COVID-19. While it’s still too early to draw...

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  1. Does scaring people work when it comes to health messaging? A communication researcher explains how it's gone wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic
  2. Canadian trucker protests show how the loudest voices in the room distort democracy
  3. African wild dogs cope with human development using skills they rely on to compete with other carnivores
  4. Why $73 million Sandy Hook settlement is unlikely to unleash a flood of lawsuits against gun-makers
  5. What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding
  6. Appeal in Sarah Palin's libel loss could set up Supreme Court test of decades-old media freedom rule
  7. Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing – will monuments honoring people of color replace them?
  8. Toshio Mori endured internment camps and overcame discrimination to become the first Japanese American to publish a book of fiction
  9. How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat
  10. Girls still fall behind boys in top scores for AP math exams
  11. Trust comes when you admit what you don’t know – lessons from child development research
  12. After the FDA issued warnings about antidepressants, youth suicides rose and mental health care dropped
  13. How recess helps students learn
  14. Why do people get diarrhea?
  15. Technology is revolutionizing how intelligence is gathered and analyzed – and opening a window onto Russian military activity around Ukraine
  16. First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
  17. What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?
  18. Physics and psychology of cats – an (improbable) conversation
  19. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
  20. How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence on Moscow
  21. What is the ‘social cost of carbon’? 2 energy experts explain after court ruling blocks Biden's changes
  22. Whether up in smoke or down the toilet, missing presidential records are a serious concern
  23. In research studies and in real life, placebos have a powerful healing effect on the body and mind
  24. Your sense of privacy evolved over millennia – that puts you at risk today but could improve technology tomorrow
  25. 4 ways to help STEM majors stay the course
  26. This god shoots love darts – but no, it's not Cupid
  27. Supreme Court's ruling on Alabama voting map could open the door to a new Wild West of state redistricting
  28. Puerto Rico has a plan to recover from bankruptcy — but the deal won't ease people's daily struggles
  29. The advantages of museum philanthropy that builds staff diversity rather than new wings and galleries
  30. What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire
  31. The risk of concussion lurks at the Super Bowl – and in all other sports
  32. Heat waves hit the poor hardest – a new study calculates the rising impact on those least able to adapt to the warming climate
  33. How raising interest rates curbs inflation – and what could possibly go wrong
  34. What The Conversation talks about when it talks about football: 3 essential reads ahead of the Super Bowl
  35. How Joe Rogan became podcasting's Goliath
  36. The shameful stories of environmental injustices at Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII
  37. A brief history of the NFL, 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the Super Bowl and their tangled saga of patriotism and dissent
  38. Inmates' hunger strikes take powerful stands against injustice
  39. In countries more biased against women, higher COVID-19 death rates for men might not tell an accurate story
  40. No-knock warrants, a relic of the 'war on drugs,' face renewed criticism after Minneapolis death
  41. What makes a fruit flavorful? Artificial intelligence can help optimize cultivars to match consumer preferences
  42. New research suggests modern humans lived in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, in Neanderthal territories
  43. Ski jump: Flying or falling with style?
  44. Partnering up can help you grow as an individual – here's the psychology of a romantic relationship that expands the self
  45. Pandemic-related school closings likely to have far-reaching effects on child well-being
  46. Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead – that loss hurts the economy
  47. Disasters can wipe out affordable housing for years unless communities plan ahead – the loss hurts the entire local economy
  48. Dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19 – a team of forensic researchers explain the science
  49. The Jan. 6 Capitol attacks offer a reminder – distrust in government has long been part of Republicans' playbook
  50. Japan's Shinto religion is going global and attracting online followers