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/ 4 months agoTrees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
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/ 4 months agoVerifying facts in the age of AI – librarians offer 5 strategies
Library scientists offer tips and tricks to figure out if a particular online news article is reliable or fake.
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/ 4 months agoA President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks – Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two
A scholar of the Supreme Court and its relationship to the people of the United States says that President Joe Biden’s...
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/ 4 months ago5 growing threats to academic freedom
From educational gag orders to the decline of tenure-track positions, academic freedom in the United States has been worsening in recent...
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/ 4 months agoWhat is love? A philosopher explains it’s not a choice or a feeling − it’s a practice
What makes a relationship last when feelings fade or circumstances change? Can you force yourself to love someone you hate or...
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/ 4 months agoMoms think more about household chores − and this cognitive burden hurts their mental health
Moms execute more household tasks. But they’re also family executives, doing more of the thinking ahead and assigning that are part...
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/ 4 months agoXi signals no deviation from course – nor in the driver – despite economic bumps in the road
The all-important third plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was heavy on intensions, but light...
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/ 4 months agoI studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know
Our research found that while ShotSpotter may have benefits for improved detection and response, it offers little benefit for enforcement and...
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/ 4 months agoBuddha’s lessons on impermanence are carved into monuments and buildings – this course explores why
In asking how Buddhism gained such a vast material presence, the course helps students understand how a religion manages to survive...
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/ 4 months agoVideo game performers are becoming Hollywood stars in their own right − and are on strike to be paid and protected accordingly
Some of the most essential but least protected workers in a $200 billion industry want to ensure that AI won’t do...
