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Hitler at home: how the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer's domestic image and duped the world

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imageWalter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the dictator’s mountain home.ww2gallery/flickr, CC BY-NC

On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The New York Times Magazine featured an illustrated story on Adolf...

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Is the changing definition of autism narrowing what we think of as 'normal'?

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imageIs normal behavior being pathologized?Elizabeth Albert/Flickr, CC BY

I first learned about autism in 1997 in my high school psychology course. It was relegated to a small paragraph in a chapter on childhood disorders. The film Rainman had come out a decade earlier, publicizing the condition to a degree. But autism still wasn’t well-known...

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How low-tech farming innovations can make African farmers climate-resilient

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imageCommunity education is a vital part of the Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project.Carmen Bezner Kerr, Author provided

Scientists, politicians and the Pope are not the only ones calling for action on climate change these days. Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into...

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Sustainability science is a new academic discipline. But is it sustainable?

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imageScience in isolation cannot provide solutions to world's complex problem.NOTICELJ’S PHOTOSTREAM, CC BY-SA

In 2007, the American Association for the Advancement of Science counted 32 sustainability science programs at colleges and universities in the United States. Today, there are 118.

Universities across the country are increasingly buying...

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Why the US has little to fear from Chinese leaders meeting with tech titans

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imageReports suggest President Xi will meet with US tech leaders this week. Will that overshadow his meeting with President Obama?Reuters

Later this week, President Xi Jinping will pay his first state visit to the US. Shortly before the visit, Chinese leaders will meet with US tech executives in a high-profile industry forum at the Microsoft campus in...

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Vaccines back in the headlines – here's what the experts say

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imageA woman receives an MMR injection.Rebecca Naden/Reuters

September 16th’s Republican debate put vaccines back in the headlines, when Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon, was asked to comment on Donald Trump’s statements linking vaccinations to autism. Carson said:

We have extremely well-documented proof that there...

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Here's the score for Obama's college scorecard: more minuses than pluses

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imageHow far can Obama's College Scorecard fix college affordability issues?Michael Fleshman, CC BY-NC-SA

This past Saturday, September 12, following an announcement in President Obama’s weekly address, the US Department of Education released its College Scorecard.

The president claimed additional information in the...

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Europe's refugee crisis: the last time round it was much, much worse

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imageExpelled from their home in 1946Otto Donath/German Federal Archives, CC BY-SA

As train after train of refugees arrives in Germany, swamping the railway stations and stretching the capacities of welfare organizations, a senior Berlin-based administrator protests against the strain the newcomers are placing on the...

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