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/ 9 months agoThis is Texas hold ‘em – why Texas is fighting the US government to secure its border with Mexico
Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and...
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/ 9 months agoCaitlin Clark’s historic scoring record shines a spotlight on the history of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the AIAW, which was designed for and by women, governed women’s college athletics.
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/ 9 months agoHow Russia has managed to shake off the impact of sanctions – with a little help from its friends
The US has imposed another round of sanctions following the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. But will it work?
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/ 9 months agoWhat is IVF? A nurse explains the evolving science and legality of in vitro fertilization
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation may put it...
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/ 9 months agoWe’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle...
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/ 9 months agoClimate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024
Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.
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/ 9 months agoBias hiding in plain sight: Decades of analyses suggest US media skews anti-Palestinian
How the media talks about suffering on one side compared with the other can often reveal bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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/ 9 months agoHow teens benefit from being able to read ‘disturbing’ books that some want to ban
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to...
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/ 9 months agoA personal tale of intellectual humility – and the rewards of being open-minded
Daryl Van Tongeren explains what it means to be intellectually humble, and why it’s so important right now on The Conversation...
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/ 9 months agoCan Trump be prosecuted? Supreme Court will take up precedent-setting case to define the limits of presidential immunity
In a case that will make legal and political history, the US Supreme Court will consider whether Donald Trump is immune...
