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Why music education needs to incorporate more diversity

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imageClassrooms are becoming more diverse. So, why is music education focused on Western music?State Farm, CC BY-NC-ND

As presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to insist upon banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and espousing a need for a wall along the Mexican border, heating up anti-immigration and racist rhetoric, it’s essential we...

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Yes, robots will steal our jobs, but don't worry, we'll get new ones

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The U.S. economy added 2.7 million jobs in 2015, capping the best two-year stretch of employment growth since the late ‘90’s, pushing the unemployment rate down to five percent.

But to listen to the doomsayers, it’s just a matter of time before the rapid advance of technology makes most of today’s workers obsolete –...

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The logic of journal embargoes: why we have to wait for scientific news

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imageExtra, extra! The embargo's lifted, read all about it.Newspapers image via www.shutterstock.com.

Rumors were flying through the blogosphere this winter: physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may finally have directly detected gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by...

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What happens when LIGO texts you to say it's detected one of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves

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imageOh hey, I heard ripples in space and time, generated as two black holes merged. Call me backSXS, CC BY-ND

The best thing about a day in my life on the lookout for gravitational waves is that I never know when it will begin.

Like many of my colleagues working for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the morning of Monday,...

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Many low-income students use only their phone to get online. What are they missing?

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imageWhat do students miss when they access the Internet only through mobile devices?Monash University, CC BY-NC

For many of us, access to the Internet through a variety of means is a given. I can access the Internet through two laptops, a tablet, a smartphone and even both of my game systems, from the comfort of my living room.

However, this access is...

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Dry is the new normal: Southwest U.S. has gotten drier and more prone to droughts

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imageLake Mead in Arizona – water supply is outstripping demand in the Southwest as the weather has gotten warmer and the population has grown. gorbould/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

A few large weather systems make all the difference between a wet and a dry year in the Southwest. Coming during the winter and spring, they account for the bulk of the rain...

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The police beating that opened America's eyes to Jim Crow's brutality

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On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honorably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife.

The bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard asked if he had time to use the bathroom, the...

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Should you be my Valentine? Research helps identify good and bad romantic relationships

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imageRemove your rose-colored glasses and take a cold, hard look at your potential Valentine.Brittanie Loren Pendleton, CC BY-NC-ND

“Will you be my Valentine?”

People all across the country say those words in the run-up to February 14 and the Valentine’s Day holiday. Whether you’re asking a brand new paramour or a long-term...

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