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How much math do you need to win your March Madness pool?

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imageThe University of Dayton Arena, where March Madness will kick off again this year.Greenstrat

Deciding which teams to pick in your NCAA basketball pool? Then you’re faced with a classic decision problem – and here, science can help.

On one hand, you want to pick good teams, the “favorites,” because those teams seem more likely...

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Zika and abortion: will the virus prompt Latin America to rethink abortion and birth control?

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The Zika virus outbreak and its probable association with microcephaly in newborns are prompting calls to loosen Latin America’s strict abortion laws and make birth control more readily available.

Abortion is fully criminalized in six countries in the region. In El Salvador, for instance, women who have abortions can face prison. In many...

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In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson suited up for his first spring training game

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Seventy years ago, on the morning of March 17, 1946, Jackie Robinson sat with his wife Rachel in a small bedroom in a stranger’s home in Daytona Beach, Florida, and wondered what lay ahead for him that afternoon.

Robinson would make history if he played for the Triple A Montreal Royals in his first spring training game. No black had worn the...

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Recalculating! By not driving the optimal route, you're causing traffic jams

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If you use a car to get around, every time you get behind the wheel you’re confronted with a choice: how will you navigate to your destination? Whether it’s a trip you take every day, such as from home to work, or to someplace you haven’t been before, you need to decide on a route.

Transportation research has traditionally assumed...

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'Acceptable risk' is a better way to think about radiation exposure in Fukushima

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On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan experienced multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns as a consequence of an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami. The meltdowns resulted in the release of radioactivity into the environment and 150,000 people were evacuated from their homes specifically due to radiation concerns.

Now, five years later,...

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The last time an outsider like Trump crashed the GOP? 1940

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imageThe surprise Republican candidate in 1940: Wendell Willkie. Library of Congress

Donald Trump’s challenge to the GOP establishment now seems on course to succeed.

As Republicans (and many others) consider what turning the party’s presidential nomination over to a real outsider will likely mean, it’s worth looking back at the last...

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From emerging to submerging: the debt burden killing off the age of the BRICS

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imageCracks are showing up in the growth success stories of emerging markets like Brazil.AK Rockefeller/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Over the past three decades, global interest in emerging markets has soared, and when the financial crisis of 2008 hit, emerging markets were largely thought to be the next engine of global growth.

Insofar as they have complied with...

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