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Willie O'Ree's little-known journey to break the NHL's color barrier

  • Written by Thomas J. Whalen, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University
Boston Bruins forward Willie O'Ree warms up prior to a game against the New York Rangers in 1960.AP Photo

Almost everybody knows about Jackie Robinson and the historic role he played integrating Major League Baseball. But mention Willie O’Ree and you’ll likely receive a blank look.

That’s a shame because 60 years ago O’Ree...

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50 years ago, a US military jet crashed in Greenland – with 4 nuclear bombs on board

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
Cleanup crew search for radioactive debris.U.S. Air Force , CC BY

Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, 1968, the Cold War grew significantly colder. It was on this day that an American B-52G Stratofortress bomber, carrying four nuclear bombs, crashed onto the sea ice of Wolstenholme Fjord in the northwest corner of Greenland, one of the coldest places on...

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What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment

  • Written by Lisa Bitel, Professor of History & Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The tomb of Abelard and Héloise.Alexandre Lenoir, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Suddenly, popular media is saturated with stories of powerful men outed by women for behavior in the workplace. These alleged harassers seem to assume that power in the workplace grants them sexual access to anyone.

In medieval Europe, most people assumed the...

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What the 2018 farm bill means for urban, suburban and rural America

  • Written by Tom Vilsack, Special Advisor, Colorado State University
Soybean crop on a family farm near Humboldt, Iowa, 2017.USDA/Preston Keres

Since the turn of the year, Congress and the Trump administration have been haggling over legislative priorities for 2018. Many issues are on the agenda, from health care to infrastructure, but there has been little mention of a key priority: The 2018 farm bill.

This...

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Post-fire landslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

  • Written by Lee MacDonald, Professor of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
As many as 20 people are dead and dozens missing following the Southern California mudslides.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled in from the Pacific. In most places the rainfall was welcomed and did not cause any major flooding...

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Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

  • Written by Lee MacDonald, Professor of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
As many as 20 people are dead and dozens missing following the Southern California mudslides.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled in from the Pacific. In most places the rainfall was welcomed and did not cause any major flooding...

Read more: Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse

Signaling more independence from the US, the World Bank phases out its support for fossil fuels

  • Written by Jason Kirk, Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron. AP Photo/Francois Mori

The World Bank, which provides developing countries about US$60 billion a year in financial assistance, is officially phasing out its support for the oil and gas industries.

This move brings its actions more in sync with its overarching commitment...

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How rejuvenation of stem cells could lead to healthier aging

  • Written by Elisa Lazzari, Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com

“Rampant” and “elderly” are words rarely used in the same sentence, unless we are talking of the percentage of people over 65 years old worldwide. Life expectancy has considerably increased, but it is still unknown how many of those years are going to be lived in good health.

As a researcher of...

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Reaching rural America with broadband internet service

  • Written by Sharon Strover, Director, Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute; Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Telecommunications wires stretch along a rural Kansas road.Technology & Information Policy Institute, University of Texas, CC BY-ND

All across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century economy. I’ve traveled to Kansas, Maine, Texas and other states studying internet access and...

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  3. Shades of green: What gig economy workers can learn from the success of romance writers
  4. How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery breakthrough
  5. Deadly California mudslides show the need for maps and zoning that better reflect landslide risk
  6. New study reveals why some people are more creative than others
  7. Closure of DC public charter school offers important lessons for Secretary DeVos and school choice debate
  8. What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as 'shining example'
  9. Donald Trump doesn't understand Haiti, immigration or American history
  10. What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant'
  11. Craft beer is becoming the wine of New England by redefining 'terroir'
  12. Does defense actually win championships?
  13. What Jeff Sessions doesn't understand about medical marijuana
  14. Thanks to the North Carolina case, partisan gerrymandering's day of reckoning may soon be upon us
  15. Quantum speed limit may put brakes on quantum computers
  16. Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
  17. Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence
  18. When I got DACA, I was forced to revert to a name I had left behind
  19. Is warming in the Arctic behind this year's crazy winter weather?
  20. Turning power over to states won't improve protection for endangered species
  21. Autonomous vehicles could help millions of people catch up on sleep, TV and work
  22. For black celebrities like Oprah, it's impossible to be apolitical
  23. The 'greatest pandemic in history' was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
  24. When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them
  25. Targeting hidden roots of workplace harassment is key to fulfilling Oprah's promise to girls
  26. More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies — and that's a good thing
  27. MLK's vision of love as a moral imperative still matters
  28. Defanged regulations have big media licking their chops
  29. Rejection of subsidies for coal and nuclear power is a win for fact-based policymaking
  30. Why is El Salvador so dangerous? 4 essential reads
  31. How California's megachurches changed Christian culture
  32. Why most nonprofit boards resemble whiteboards and how to fix that
  33. Why children's savings accounts should be America's next wealth transfer program
  34. Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits them
  35. Does Apple have an obligation to make the iPhone safer for kids?
  36. Fit to serve: Data on transgender military service
  37. From cowboys to commandos: Connecting sexual and gun violence with media archetypes
  38. Will religiously unaffiliated Americans increase support for liberal policies, in 2018 and beyond?
  39. Universities must prepare for a technology-enabled future
  40. Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery – so they are practicing in the shadows
  41. Why Iran's protests matter this time
  42. Why states may get away with creative income tax maneuvers
  43. How does assisting with suicide affect physicians?
  44. Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
  45. Driverless cars might follow the rules of the road, but what about the language of driving?
  46. Scientist at work: I've dived in hundreds of underwater caves hunting for new forms of life
  47. From bad to worse? 5 things 2018 will bring to the Middle East
  48. Trump's offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon
  49. The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner
  50. When charities let telemarketers gouge donors