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Promising male birth control pill has its origin in an arrow poison

  • Written by Gunda Georg, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development, University of Minnesota
Will blue packets replace pink ones soon?Aleksandra Berzhets/Shutterstock.com

After decades of research, development of a male birth control may now be one step closer. My colleagues and I are working on a promising lead for a male birth control pill based on ouabain – a plant extract that African warriors and hunters traditionally used as a...

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Why ignoring mental health needs of young Syrian refugees could harm us all

  • Written by M. Zaher Sahloul, Associate Clinical Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
A Syrian child drew a picture of helicopters dropping bombs and children dying as a result. The surviving children are crying, while the deceased ones have smiles on their faces. Zaher Sahloud, CC BY-SA

When a seven-year-old student in eastern Aleppo was asked at the peak of the bombardment campaign by the Assad regime in 2015 to draw a picture, he...

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Why it's too soon for Davos billionaires to toast Trump's 'pro-business' policies

  • Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
SAP CEO Bill McDermott and Siemens chief Joe Kaeser flank Trump as they praise him for his tax cut.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The moguls of global business, who met recently in Davos for the World Economic Forum, may not like Donald Trump’s style. But, if a series of reports by The New York Times and otheroutlets are to be believed, Trump’s...

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Presidential corruption verdict shows just how flawed Brazil's justice system is

  • Written by Rubens Glezer, Law Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

On Jan. 24, a Brazilian appeals court upheld a criminal conviction against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, rocking Brazil’s already turbulent political scene. The verdict, which confirms a 2017 ruling against the wildly popular Workers’ Party leader on corruption charges, could carry a prison sentence of up to 10...

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Trump's travel ban is just one of many US policies that legalize discrimination against Muslims

  • Written by Basima Sisemore, Researcher, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley
At the funeral of Nabra Hassanen, a Muslim girl who was beaten to death.AP Photo/Steve Helber

On Jan. 19, a year after President Donald Trump’s first travel ban was issued, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments against the latest third version signed by Trump on Sept. 24, 2017. This version remains in full effect.

Under the ban, nationals...

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Millions of refugees could benefit from big data – but we're not using it

  • Written by Anirudh V. S. Ruhil, Professor of Leadership & Public Affairs, Ohio University
Hindu women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for their turn to collect aid at refugee camp in September 2017.AP Photo/Dar Yasin

Today, 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced within their home countries – more than at any other point since the U.N. Refugee Agency began collecting data. Many countries have...

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How should we decide what to do?

  • Written by Lori Gruen, William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
How many times do we wonder, 'what's the right thing to do'?Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA (Helping the homeless Uploaded by Gary Dee, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Most of us are faced with ethical decisions on a regular basis. Some are relatively minor – perhaps your cousin makes a new recipe and it really doesn’t taste good,...

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Why don't STEM majors vote as much as others?

  • Written by Inger Bergom, Senior Researcher, Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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There’s no shortage of talk about the need to get more students to go into STEM majors. But a growing body of research, including our own at the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University, indicates there might also be a need to get more STEM majors to go to the polls.

An analysis that we conducted shows...

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Corporate sponsors of Olympians enter the #MeToo fray

  • Written by George B. Cunningham, Professor of Sport Management, Faculty Affiliate of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Director, Laboratory for Diversity in Sport, Texas A&M University
Dick's Sporting Goods presenting Team USA -- including Olympic gymnast Simone Biles -- a check for $236,000.Kevin Wolf/AP Images

Revelations brought to light during the trial of sports doctor Larry Nassar are reverberating.

High-level resignations are piling up at Michigan State University, the physician’s former employer. USA Gymnastics, the...

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  10. The comeback and dangers of the drug GHB
  11. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's weak-dollar myopia is dangerous
  12. Macron's pledge to wipe out coal is just as meaningless as Trump's plan to revive it
  13. Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside Africa
  14. Why climate change is worsening public health problems
  15. The state of the US solar industry: 5 questions answered
  16. For a North Korean refugee raising her kids in the UK, the past is never far
  17. I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right
  18. How secure is your data when it's stored in the cloud?
  19. The hidden health inequalities that American Indians and Alaskan Natives face
  20. The world on a billionaire's budget
  21. Don't automate the fun out of life
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  24. How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'Lost Einsteins'
  25. DACA isn't just about social justice – legalizing Dreamers makes economic sense too
  26. Successful businesses need proactive leadership – and so does Congress
  27. Is it time for a 21st-century version of 'The Day After'?
  28. Is a unified Korea possible?
  29. Unrest in Iran will continue until religious rule ends
  30. Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration
  31. When it comes to your health, where you live matters
  32. Medicaid work requirements could cost the government more in the long run
  33. Another continuing resolution won't solve the real problem within the Republican Party
  34. Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of California agriculture
  35. There are better ways to foster solar innovation and save jobs than Trump's tariffs
  36. What are chronophilias?
  37. Is attraction to an age group another kind of sexual orientation?
  38. What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
  39. Guarding against the possible Spectre in every machine
  40. Secret memo shows bipartisanship during Watergate succession crisis
  41. Deportees in Mexico tell of disrupted lives, families and communities
  42. Trump goes to Davos: 4 books he should read on first trip to gathering of global elites
  43. When a mom feels depressed, her baby's cells might feel it too
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  45. Why so many Americans think Buddhism is just a philosophy
  46. DeVos speech shows contempt for the agency she heads
  47. What the government shutdown means for the health of Americans
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