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/ 1 year agoWhat are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern...
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/ 1 year agoFrom morgue to medical school: Cadavers of the poor, Black and vulnerable can be dissected without consent
Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the...
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/ 1 year agoIsraeli invasion of Gaza likely to resemble past difficult battles in Iraq and Syria
Hamas and the international community expect Israel to invade the Gaza Strip. The battle will probably be more like recent Middle...
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/ 1 year agoTCUS senior editor Kalpana Jain explores Indigenous communities in Indonesia − and learns about their struggles to reclaim land
The Conversation’s senior religion and ethics editor traveled the world to learn more about Indigenous populations. See one piece of what...
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/ 1 year agoAre ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence
Ghosts can be spooky fun, but there’s no evidence they exist.
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/ 1 year agoLet the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers...
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/ 1 year agoBacklash to the oil CEO leading the UN climate summit overlooks his ambitious agenda for COP28 – and concerns of the Global South
An analysis of past UN conference presidencies suggests the 2023 summit’s agenda would do more to accelerate the transition away from...
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/ 1 year agoThe Rio Grande isn’t just a border – it’s a river in crisis
When the Rio Grande figures in US news reports, it’s usually in relation to stories about immigration, drug trafficking or trade....
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/ 1 year agoHot-button topics may get public attention at the Vatican synod, but a more fundamental issue for the Catholic Church is at the heart of debate
Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality is attempting to move the church toward a more dialogue-based model of authority, a scholar of...
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/ 1 year agoHow ‘La Catrina’ became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a...
