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Can you be hacked by the world around you?

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
imageCould scanning a QR code be an invitation to malware?Zapp2Photo/Shutterstock.com

You’ve probably been told it’s dangerous to open unexpected attachment files in your email – just like you shouldn’t open suspicious packages in your mailbox. But have you been warned against scanning unknown QR codes or just taking a picture...

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How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America

  • Written by Brad Christerson, Professor of Sociology, Biola University
imageAdam Rozanas, CC BY-NC-ND

Last week, from Oct. 6 to 9, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was filled with tents, worship music and prayer for the “Awaken the Dawn” rally. The purpose of the event, according to organizer Lou Engle, was to “gather around Jesus,” to pray for the nation and its government. It ended with a day...

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How to ensure the fourth industrial revolution is 'Made in the USA'

  • Written by Kemper E. Lewis, Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageWithout investment, fewer products will bear this 'Made in the USA' logo in the future. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

President Donald Trump has long talked about reinvigorating American manufacturing, which has suffered heavy job losses as a result of automation, trade deals and other factors.

In July, the Trump administration even celebrated “ma...

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Do people like government 'nudges'? Study says: Yes

  • Written by Cass Sunstein, University Professor, Harvard University
imageA product's calorie label is a common form of nudging behavior. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

On Oct. 9, Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago won the Nobel Prize for his extraordinary, world-transforming work in behavioral economics. In its press release, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences emphasized that Thaler demonstrated how nudging...

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How Obamacare has helped poor cancer patients

  • Written by Fumiko Chino, Resident in Radiation Oncology, Duke University
imageSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as they addressed the unpopularity of their replacement bill. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Two weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled the vote for the latest measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Ca...

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Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
imageMarie Curie in one of her mobile X-ray units in October 1917.Eve Curie

Ask people to name the most famous historical woman of science and their answer will likely be: Madame Marie Curie. Push further and ask what she did, and they might say it was something related to radioactivity. (She actually discovered the radioisotopes radium and polonium.)...

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Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California's legacy

  • Written by Gary Griggs, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
imageBig Sur coastline.Ashley Spratt, USFWS, CC BY

The California coast is an edge. It’s the place where 1,100 miles of shoreline meets the largest ocean on the planet. Many different forces collide there, and a lot of exciting things happen. The coast is a geological edge, zippered to North America by 800 miles of the San Andreas Fault and...

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Gentrification? Bring it

  • Written by Jonathan Wynn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageCash-strapped Hartford is one of a number American cities that have missed out on the nation's urban renaissance.Jessica Hill/AP Photo

In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood staged protests outside a trendy new coffee shop called Weird Wave Coffee, holding signs that read...

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In Latin America, is there a link between abortion rights and democracy?

  • Written by Larissa Arroyo Navarrete, Professor of Human Rights, University of Costa Rica

Three-quarters of all abortions in Latin America are performed illegally, putting the woman’s life at risk. Together with Africa and Asia, the region accounts for many of the 17.1 million unsafe abortions performed globally each year, according to a new report in The Lancet, published jointly with the Guttmacher Institute, a research and...

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Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them

  • Written by Mark Partridge, Professor of Rural-Urban Policy, The Ohio State University
imageTVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee, site of a 1.1 billion gallon spill of coal ash slurry in 2008, photographed on March 28, 2012.Appalachian Voices, CC BY

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to bring jobs and prosperity to communities that rely on the coal...

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  2. How the stoicism of Roman philosophers can help us deal with depression
  3. Nobody reads privacy policies – here's how to fix that
  4. Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them
  5. How the US government created and coddled the gun industry
  6. Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel
  7. Why would the Trump administration ban travel from Chad?
  8. Why Rick Perry's proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
  9. For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place
  10. Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'
  11. What makes American society so violent? 4 essential reads
  12. The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
  13. How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
  14. Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
  15. Bundy trial embodies everything dividing America today
  16. Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
  17. Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
  18. Blade Runner's chillingly prescient vision of the future
  19. Knowing the signs of Lewy body dementia may help speed diagnosis
  20. Should Uncle Sam 'send in the Marines' after hurricanes?
  21. Catalonia's referendum unmasks authoritarianism in Spain
  22. The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
  23. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
  24. How 'Germany's Hugh Hefner' created an entirely different sort of sex empire
  25. Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
  26. Do tax cuts stimulate the economy more than spending?
  27. The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world
  28. I've spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn't just objectification of women
  29. How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk
  30. Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
  31. How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?
  32. After a disaster, contaminated floodwater can pose a threat for months to come
  33. Scientists join forces to save Puerto Rico's 'Monkey Island'
  34. Governments, car companies must resolve their competing goals for self-driving cars
  35. How dangerous people get their weapons in America
  36. Nobel winners identified molecular ‘cogs’ in the biological clocks that control our circadian rhythms
  37. When gun control makes a difference: 4 essential reads
  38. How to talk to your kids about opioids
  39. Don't take opioids off the market - make it harder to abuse them
  40. Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
  41. Three steps Congress could take to help resolve the net neutrality debate – without legislating a fix
  42. How investing in public health could cure many health care problems
  43. American women died in Vietnam, too
  44. What Gandhi can teach today's protesters
  45. The difference between black football fans and white football fans
  46. The real reason some people become addicted to drugs
  47. Merkel's challenge: Governing Germany in an age of rising nationalism
  48. Why Pope Francis is reviving a long tradition of local variations in Catholic services
  49. Is free speech alive and well? 5 essential reads
  50. Why the FCC's proposed internet rules may spell trouble ahead