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Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today

  • Written by Andrea Williams, Director, International Studies, Colorado State University
imageSyrian Christians and Muslims offer prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, in 2013.AP Photo

The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million, about half of Syria’s total population, without a home. A few weeks ago, a deva...

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'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

  • Written by Caleb Everett, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
imageA Pirahã family.Caleb Everett, CC BY-SA

Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world’s largest river tree. Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms analogous to “a few” or...

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Can Bill Nye – or any other science show – really save the world?

  • Written by Heather Akin, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
imageWill Bill Nye's new show find a wider audience than Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos' did?Vince Bucci/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images

Netflix’s new talk show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and...

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Cutting EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense

  • Written by Patricia Smith, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

President Donald Trump recently ordered an air strike on Syria, fueled in part by moral outrage at images of babies being injured and killed by airborne toxins.

American babies are under threat as well. In this case, the culprit is the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent,...

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Police around the world learn to fight global-scale cybercrime

  • Written by Frank J. Cilluffo, Director, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, George Washington University
imagePolice must join forces across international borders to take on modern cybercriminals.wutzkohphoto/Shutterstock.com

From 2009 to 2016, a cybercrime network called Avalanche grew into one of the world’s most sophisticated criminal syndicates. It resembled an international conglomerate, staffed by corporate executives, advertising salespeople...

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Confused about Trump's border wall?: 7 essential reads

  • Written by Bryan Keogh, Editor, Economics and Business, The Conversation

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised Mexico would pay for a border war separating it from the U.S.

With that unlikely anytime soon, the president has been demanding Congress include funding for his proposed barrier in the budget lawmakers are hastily trying to finish by...

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Why cuts in funding for UN, climate change research imperil fight against malaria

  • Written by Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami
imageMosquitoes could expand their reach if money for climate change research is cut. Centers for Disease Control.

Diseases don’t stop at borders. On World Malaria Day, this is especially important to understand and to consider.

We’ve been fighting malaria for decades, and yet it still claimed nearly half a million lives in 2015. About 70...

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What the Trump team should consider before axing Meals on Wheels funds

  • Written by David Campbell, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York

To justify President Donald Trump’s aim to spend less on social services, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney declared, “We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good.” Who can argue with that?

Not us.

Like anyone else, we want our taxpayer dollars spent wisely. Funding programs that...

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For restaurants looking to boost profits, it's often about everything but the food

  • Written by Frank T. McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
imageLighting, layout and music can determine whether you'll be grabbing a quick bite or staying a while.'Diners' via www.shutterstock.com

Staying one step ahead of the competition in the hypercompetitive restaurant industry requires more than simply tinkering with the menu. Serving tasty food doesn’t do much good if customers don’t stay...

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Can we design a better fuel economy label?

  • Written by Adrian R. Camilleri, Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
imageEveryone looks for price, but there are smarter ways to communicate fuel efficiency on car labels. Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com

Transportation contributes approximately 26 percent to greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, governments around the world are looking for ways to increase consumers’ use of fuel-efficient vehicles. One of the most...

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