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/ 10 months agoBiden executive order on sensitive personal information does little for now to curb data market – but spotlights the threat the market poses
The dangers posed by the largely unregulated commercial data market prompted the Biden administration to try to prevent adversarial countries from...
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/ 10 months agoThe ‘average’ revolutionized scientific research, but overreliance on it has led to discrimination and injury
The average might come in handy for certain data analyses, but is any one person really ‘average’?
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/ 10 months agoBen Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and white male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment
Since its birth 50 years ago, hip-hop music has embraced artists of every race and ethnic background. An avowed hip-hop hater...
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/ 10 months agoThough CBS legend Edward R. Murrow is given credit, he wasn’t the first muckraking journalist to question Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts
Starting in 1950, as the fear of communist subversion spread throughout America, McCarthy launched hearings that were based on scant evidence...
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/ 10 months agoRemembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit park honors labor and environmental history
On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions, sparking America’s labor movement. Almost a...
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/ 10 months agoMy Malaysia ordeal shows how religion can fuse with populist nationalism to silence dissent
Religion and nationalism were once ideologies at odds. Now, they are increasingly bedfellows, with populism often the glue.
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/ 10 months agoThe tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by avoiding inauspicious...
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/ 10 months agoAltitude sickness is typically mild but can sometimes turn very serious − a high-altitude medicine physician explains how to safely prepare
Whether you’re ascending to high altitudes for casual travel or for adventure tourism, there are specific strategies to help you acclimate...
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/ 10 months agoMeasles is one of the deadliest and most contagious infectious diseases – and one of the most easily preventable
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the risk that rising...
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/ 10 months agoCOVID-19 rapid tests still work against new variants – researchers keep ‘testing the tests,’ and they pass
Research shows that rapid antigen tests are performing as well at detecting the most recent dominant variants as they did with...
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/ 10 months agoIs the United States overestimating China’s power?
Most Americans see China as the biggest threat to the US. But away from headline economic figures, China has a slew...
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/ 10 months agoYes, Trump’s PACs really can pay his legal fees
Trump-aligned political action committees have paid lawyers for the former president tens of millions of dollars. Are there any limits on...
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/ 10 months agoWhat does a state’s secretary of state do? Most run elections, a once-routine job facing increasing scrutiny
There are dozens of secretaries of state in the US. Only one deals with foreign affairs. The majority of the rest,...
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/ 10 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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/ 10 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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/ 10 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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/ 10 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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/ 10 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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/ 10 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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/ 10 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...
