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The curious relationship between altitude and suicide

  • Written by Hoehun Ha, Assistant Professor of Geography, Auburn University at Montgomery
imageDoes living at a higher altitude affect your mental health?VAndreas/shutterstock.com

Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. In the next 20 years, it’s expected to cause more than 2 million deaths per year worldwide, ranking 14th in the world as a cause of death.

There are many factors known to affect an individual’s...

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How burnout is plaguing doctors and harming patients

  • Written by Jay Desai, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
imageExhaustion and burnout among physicians are growing problems. wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com

The presidential symposium at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society of America in early October in Kansas City raised many eyebrows. The first presentation of this symposium focused on burnout rates among neurologists around the...

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'Voodoo economics' makes a comeback in Republican tax plan enriching the rich

  • Written by Christian Weller, Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston
imageVoodoo doll or an illustration of the Republican tax plan on income inequality?Rainer Fuhrmann/Shutterstock.com

Republicans in Congress recently released more details of their tax plan, which they say would boost economic growth and lower the burden on middle-income households. They hope to pass a bill into law by Christmas.

The reality is that the...

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As wildfires expand, fire science needs to keep up

  • Written by Albert Simeoni, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
imageWildfire threatens a home near Possum Kingdom, Texas, April 19, 2011.State Farm, CC BY

In the month of October nearly 250,000 acres, more than 8,000 homes and over 40 people fell victim to fast-moving wildfires in Northern California, the deadliest and one of the costliest outbreaks in state history. Now is the time to wrestle with hard questions....

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How does an oppressive government celebrate a revolution?

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
imageA worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg. But how much Russian history gets whitewashed today?Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo

“And what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little more than a week before the 100th anniversary of what, in Soviet times, was lauded...

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How does an authoritarian regime celebrate a revolution?

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
imageA worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg. But how much Russian history gets whitewashed today?Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo

“And what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little more than a week before the 100th anniversary of what, in Soviet times, was lauded...

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To stop the opioid epidemic, the White House should embrace prevention

  • Written by M. Dolores Cimini, Director for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageAn emergency overdose kit in Providence, Rhode Island.Michelle Smith/AP

There’s an old adage that states “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

President Donald Trump declared a public health emergency on opioid use on Oct. 24. He outlined several strategies to address the crisis, including plans to establish drug...

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How dogs and cats can get their day in court

  • Written by Jessica Rubin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
imageAt least in Connecticut, legal advocates can now represent the interests of abused animals. Spillikin/Shutterstock.com

In 2016, the FBI started to track animal cruelty, including neglect, torture and sexual abuse, because of disturbing connections.

“If somebody is harming an animal, there is a good chance they also are hurting a human,”...

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It's mostly mothers who pass on mitochondria – and a new theory says it's due to the first sexual conflict

  • Written by Arunas L. Radzvilavicius, Postdoctoral Researcher of Evolutionary Biology, University of Pennsylvania
imageIs this how we got the sperm and the egg?Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock

Evolutionary interests of males and females do not always coincide. This is known as sexual conflict: male innovations that allow them to reproduce more sometimes hurt females, and vice versa.

Male fruit flies, for instance, inject their partners with toxic chemicals during...

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In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they're waging a holy war

  • Written by Robert Muggah, Associate Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s an increasingly familiar phenomenon.

Charismatic Christianity is on the rise across Brazil. Even Rio, a famously libertine city, elected an evangelical mayor last year. Now, evangelical Protestantism is so far-reaching in Rio that even...

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