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/ 1 year agoWhy ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ made 2023 the dead girl summer
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences...
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/ 1 year ago5 ways that college campuses benefit from diversity, equity and inclusion programs
Diversity programs benefit schools and students in multiple ways, research shows.
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/ 1 year agoHow evasive and transmissible is the newest omicron offshoot, BA.2.86, that causes COVID-19? 4 questions answered
Researchers still don’t know how well BA.2.86 will evade immunity or whether it will cause more severe disease than its predecessors.
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/ 1 year agoLooking for your ‘calling’? What people get wrong when chasing meaningful work
The idea of a ‘calling’ has stretched far beyond its religious roots. But the way US society talks about meaningful work...
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/ 1 year agoAntisemitism on Elon Musk’s X is surging and dredging up many ancient, defamatory themes of blaming Jews
Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for...
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/ 1 year agoUS response to Gabon and Niger coups suggests need for a new West Africa policy in Washington
No US president has set foot on sub-Saharan Africa since 2015 – and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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/ 1 year ago30 years after Arafat-Rabin handshake, clear flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace talks to failure
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further...
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/ 1 year agoHow does fever help fight infections? There’s more to it than even some scientists realize
The heat and chills that come with fever are not only uncomfortable but also metabolically costly. Increased body temperature, however, can...
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/ 1 year agoCan animals give birth to twins?
Animals often give birth to litters of more than one offspring at a time. But are those babies twins?
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/ 1 year agoPowerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods
An astronomer and ‘black hole historian’ explains how the parts of the universe black holes grow in might influence how quickly...
