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When do moviegoers become pilgrims?

  • Written by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College
imagePilgrims at Lourdes.Nick Thompson, CC BY-NC

Among the millions of travelers heading out for the summer holidays, some are choosing an unlikely destination: a rusted bus on the edge of the Alaskan wilderness.

Fairbanks Bus 142 (aka the “magic bus”) is where the 24-year old Chris McCandless died in 1992. Well-educated and economically...

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Welfare as we know it now: 6 questions answered

  • Written by Laura Hussey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageWhen President Bill Cllinton officially ended welfare as we knew it, he was flanked by women who had received Aid to Families with Dependent Children.Reuters/Stephen Jaffee

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would slice US$21.7 billion over a decade, or 13.1 percent, from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) –...

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Creating a high-speed internet lane for emergency situations

  • Written by Nirmala Shenoy, Professor of Information Sciences and Technologies, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageIn an emergency, responders' telecommunications could get delayed by overloaded networks.City of Hampton, Virginia

During large disasters, like hurricanes, wildfires and terrorist attacks, people want emergency responders to arrive quickly and help people deal with the crisis. In order to do their best, police, medics, firefighters and those who...

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Concussions and CTE: More complicated than even the experts know

  • Written by Russell M. Bauer, Professor, Clinical & Health Psychology and Neurology, University of Florida
imageYoungsters leave a football field in 2015 after playing at halftime at a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Carolina Panthers. AP Photo/Bill Wippert

For many, American football is a beautiful game that is simple to enjoy but complex to master. Choreographed with a mixture of artistry and brutality, it features the occasional “big...

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Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics

  • Written by Brad Spellberg, Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, University of Southern California
imageGreen colonies of allergenic fungus Penicillium from air spores on a petri dish. Penicillin was the first antibiotic. Satirus/Shutterstock.com

A recent article in the British Medical Journal set off a bit of a firestorm with its claim that “the antibiotic course has had its day.” The authors challenged the very widespread belief that...

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Is Congress' plan to save Puerto Rico working?

  • Written by Edwin Meléndez, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College
imagePuerto Ricans are increasingly fed up with austerity. AP Photo/Danica Coto

A year ago, Congress cobbled together a plan to try to save Puerto Rico from its US$123 billion debt and pension crisis without costing American taxpayers a penny.

The law, signed by former President Barack Obama on June 30, 2016, effectively steered Puerto Rico into...

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Nutrient pollution: Voluntary steps are failing to shrink algae blooms and dead zones

  • Written by Donald Scavia, Professor of Environment and Sustainability; Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
imageHarmful algae bloom in Lake Erie, Oct. 13, 2011.NASA Earth Observatory, CC BY

Summer is the season for harmful algae blooms in many U.S. lakes and bays. They occur when water bodies become overloaded with nitrogen and phosphorus from farms, water treatment plants and other sources. Warm water and lots of nutrients promote rapid growth of algae that...

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The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake

  • Written by Brian Dolber, Assistant Professor of Communication, California State University San Marcos
imageBack in the 1930s, people like this pear peddler in New York City's Lower East Side often got their news from labor-led media.AP Photo

An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor recently pulled off an unusual feat when it acquired the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Department of...

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Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross
imagePope Francis at the end of a canonization ceremony for Mother Teresa.Alessandra Tarantino/AP

Pope Francis has created a new category for beatification, the level immediately below sainthood, in the Catholic Church: those who give their lives for others. This is called “oblatio vitae,” the “offer of life” for the well-being...

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Bridges and roads as important to your health as what's in your medicine cabinet

  • Written by Korydon Smith, Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of Global Health Equity, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageThe water tower in Flint, Michigan, where lead-contaminated water led to a health crisis in 2014. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other.

Health care reform has been the hottest topic. What to do about America’s aging infrastructure...

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  1. Trump isn't letting Obamacare die; he's trying to kill it
  2. Why crowds aren’t always wise: Lessons from mini-flash crashes on Wall Street
  3. Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now's the time to work out the ethics
  4. Measuring up US infrastructure against other countries
  5. Data science can help us fight human trafficking
  6. Why a 2,500-year-old Hebrew poem still matters
  7. Storing data in DNA brings nature into the digital universe
  8. Thinking like an economist can make your next trip abroad cheaper
  9. Reviving the war on drugs will further harm police-community relations
  10. What marsupials taught us about embryo implantation could help women using IVF
  11. To restore our soils, feed the microbes
  12. The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.
  13. Trump's 'America first' strategy for NAFTA talks won't benefit US workers
  14. Self-driving cars are coming – but are we ready?
  15. When the federal budget funds scientific research, it's the economy that benefits
  16. George Romero's zombies will make Americans reflect on racial violence long after his death
  17. Do we have too many national monuments? 4 essential reads
  18. When Pat and Bob nearly saved health care reform: A lesson in Senatorial bedside manner
  19. How electric vehicles could take a bite out of the oil market
  20. The US health economy is big, but is it better?
  21. Concerned about concussions and brain injuries? 4 essential reads
  22. Kris Kobach and Kansas' SAFE Act
  23. 100 years ago African-Americans marched down 5th Avenue to declare that black lives matter
  24. Stranded in our own communities: Transit deserts make it hard for people to find jobs and stay healthy
  25. The bigotry baked into welfare cuts
  26. Helping your student with disabilities prepare for the future
  27. Glioblastoma, a formidable foe, faces a 'reservoir of resilience' in McCain
  28. A philosopher argues why no one has the right to refuse services to LGBT people
  29. The hidden extra costs of living with a disability
  30. How public feuds on social media and reality TV play out​ in court
  31. Senate GOP opens health care debate. Now what?
  32. Learning disabilities do not define us
  33. How to succeed in college with a disability
  34. Hong Kong's democratic struggle and the rise of Chinese authoritarianism
  35. Do challenges make school seem impossible or worthwhile?
  36. What influences American giving?
  37. A bold, bipartisan plan to return the US to the vanguard of 21st-century technological innovation
  38. Biologics: The pricey drugs transforming medicine
  39. How killing the ACA could lead to more opioid deaths in West Virginia and other Trump states
  40. Fulfilling the promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  41. Venezuela's getting a new constitution whether the people want it or not
  42. History shows that stacking federal science advisory committees doesn't work
  43. How a job acquires a gender (and less authority if it's female)
  44. Mitch McConnell, the president's man in the Senate
  45. Why the Catholic Church bans gluten-free communion wafers
  46. Sharkathon 2017 is here: How to watch it like a scientist
  47. Who's avoiding sex, and why
  48. The Supreme Court made it harder for states to ban sex offenders from social media. Here’s why
  49. The Georgia peach may be vanishing, but its mythology is alive and well
  50. How some rich people are trying to dismantle inequality