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Did independent voters decide the New Hampshire primary?

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Last week, the diehards had their say in Iowa. Last night in New Hampshire, the independents took their turn.

The Iowa Caucuses are time consuming and only the most committed or ideological partisans show up.

But New Hampshire’s election laws allow people to vote in the primaries even if they are not registered with one of the parties. These...

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Exposed to a deluge of digital photos, we're feeling the psychological effects of image overload

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Twenty-four percent of U.S. teens say they’re online “almost constantly.” Now much of that time, it seems, is spent incessantly compiling and navigating vast collections and streams of images.

In a 2014 survey, the photo sharing app Instagram supplanted Twitter as the social media platform considered “most important”...

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Obama's speech at Baltimore mosque was powerful, but was anyone listening?

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Last Thursday, President Barack Obama visited a mosque at the Islamic Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He delivered an unusually long and nuanced speech on the status of the Muslim community in the United States.

Because of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, in combination with the over-the-top rhetoric of Donald Trump and...

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Shouldn't there be a time limit on Mickey's copyright?

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imageWhen should a work go into public doman?Copyright image via www.shutterstock.com

In 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA). CTEA expanded on the Copyright Act of 1976 by retroactively extending all existing copyrights by 20 years.

So instead of the steady entry into the public domain of works whose copyrights...

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Utilities, solar energy and the fight for your roof

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imageSolar power in suburbia: what's not to like? Gray Watson, CC BY-SA

By many accounts, the spread of solar power is unstoppable. Costs continue to fall at a blistering pace, solutions to give consumers a solar-powered home without needing to connect to the grid for back-up power are emerging, and even the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in, with a...

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Sanders, Trump win big in polarized New Hampshire as voters revolt against the establishment

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New Hampshire voters sent a loud and clear anti-establishment message on Tuesday.

In a result unimaginable just one year ago, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary and New York billionaire Donald Trump won the state’s Republican primary.

Neither race was close. Sanders and Trump both won by double digits,...

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Are tighter EPA controls on mercury pollution worth it?

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imageThe biggest source of mercury in the U.S. continues to be coal power plants. booleansplit/flickr, CC BY-NC

Over 300,000 babies every year are born in the United States with levels of mercury that put them at risk of neurological and developmental problems. How much would you be willing to spend to reduce this number?

This might seem like an abstract...

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Clinton, Sanders and the changing face of the Democratic Party

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Last week’s debate in New Hampshire between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over who is the “real progressive” said a lot about how they and the Democratic Party have changed over the past half-century.

When Clinton and Sanders first came of age politically during the mid-1960s, neither was a natural fit for the Democrats as...

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Feeling sleepy? You might be at risk of falsely confessing to a crime you did not commit

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imageInnocence puts you at risk in an interrogation room.Interrogation image via www.shutterstock.com.

If you are one of the millions of people who have listened to the podcast “Serial” or watched Netflix’s series “Making a Murderer,” you may believe there are innocent people in prison.

But long before the cases of Adnan...

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The Federal response in Malheur and far right extremism

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After a weeks-long standoff with federal and Oregon state police, 16 members of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation have been arrested, one wounded and another killed. The occupation’s leaders, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are among those in custody.

Although some of the foot soldiers remain on federal land, the occupation’s end is...

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