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/ 1 year agoUS agencies buy vast quantities of personal information on the open market – a legal scholar explains why and what it means for privacy in the age of AI
The government faces legal restrictions on how much personal information it can gather on citizens, but the law is largely silent...
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/ 1 year agoEnglish dialects make themselves heard in genes
People with a common history – often due to significant geographic or social barriers – often share genetics and language. New...
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/ 1 year agoAmericans in former Confederate states more likely to say violent protest against government is justified, 160 years after Gettysburg
On the 160th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, a political scientist finds that residents of formerly Confederate states...
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/ 1 year agoWhat is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?
Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.
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/ 1 year agoThe New York Times worried that publishing the Pentagon Papers would destroy the newspaper — and the reputation of the US
The New York Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers showed the paper was willing to jeopardize connections to other powerful institutions,...
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/ 1 year agoUS music education has a history of anti-Blackness that is finally being confronted
The predominantly white European field of music education in the US is changing radically these days as schools confront anti-Black histories.
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/ 1 year agoMedical students honor body donors through words, deeds and ceremonies
The lessons students learn from dissecting donor bodies go beyond anatomy – and they try to pay that gift forward.
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/ 1 year agoOvertime Elite – a private school, basketball league and media conglomerate – just sent two players to the NBA
The organization – which offers its high school-age players a minimum salary of $100,000 – represents a new model for young...
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court says state lawmakers can’t just ignore state law when drawing voting districts or choosing presidential electors
It’s official: State courts can review lawmakers’ election-district boundary decisions to ensure they comply with state law.
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/ 1 year agoPutin’s Ukraine war keeps yielding dividends — but not for him
A historian explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin, weakened by a short-lived mutiny, might find a path to peace with Ukraine.
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/ 1 year agoLab-grown meat techniques aren’t new – cell cultures are common tools in science, but bringing them up to scale to meet society’s demand for meat will require further development
Cell cultures are common tools in biology and drug development. Bringing them up to scale to meet the meat needs of...
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/ 1 year agoA trauma-focused therapy is helping Ukrainian children besieged by war – a clinical psychologist explains how it could bring resilience to kids around the world
No matter their age, gender, ethnicity or locale, kids undergoing this therapy can make real progress in recovering from the most...
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/ 1 year agoThe digital future may rely on ultrafast optical electronics and computers
A researcher explains developments in using light rather than electrons to transmit information securely and quickly, even over long distances.
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/ 1 year agoRight-to-charge laws bring the promise of EVs to apartments, condos and rentals
Illinois passed the latest law requiring new apartment buildings to be wired for EV chargers. Now apartment communities are figuring out...
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/ 1 year agoSouth Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world – and that doesn’t bode well for its economy
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered....
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/ 1 year agoCOVID-19 hurt kids’ math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020
A new analysis of standardized test scores from elementary schools in Michigan pinpoints when during the pandemic students fell most behind.
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/ 1 year agoStates are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce
Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
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/ 1 year agoBMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place
Overreliance on BMI as a measure of weight and health has deepened inequities and led to inaccuracies and overgeneralizations.
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/ 1 year agoTaking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
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/ 1 year agoDo you crush microbes when you step on them?
You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It...
