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Details: Written by: Laurel Thomas, University of Michigan

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Most participants in a recent study had no idea that their email addresses and other personal information had been compromised in an average of five data breaches each.

Details: Written by: Chelsea Davis, Iowa State University

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Vulnerable populations in small towns face significantly more public health risks than statewide averages, finds new research in Iowa.

Details: Written by: Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion + Ethics Editor

A new two-hour documentary on PBS examines the life and rise of Billy Graham, the famed preacher, who died on Feb. 21, 2018 at 99. Graham’s enduring legacy is...

Details: Written by: Greg Larson, Yale University

With stronger complementarities in home production among spouses, highly educated people increasingly marry other highly educated people, while less-educated people increasingly marry other less-educated people

Details: Written by: James Dyke, University of Exeter et al

Why The Concept Of Net Zero Emissions Is A Dangerous Trap

Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process.

Details: Written by: Janet Greenlees, Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University

In May 2021, virologist Angela Rasmussen reflected how “if the last 18 months have demonstrated anything, it’s that we would do well to remember the lessons of past pandemics as we try to prevent future ones”. This includes ensuring we come out stronger.

Details: Written by: Brian C. Black, Penn State

When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive in Dearborn, Michigan, in May 2021, the event was more than a White House photo op.

Details: Written by: Robert Reich

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Maybe it’s wishful thinking to declare the pandemic over in the US, and presumptuous to conclude what lessons we’ve learned. So consider this a first draft.

Details: Written by: Robert Danisch, Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo

The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at that task.

Details: Written by: Daisaku Ikeda

Practicing Environmental Compassion and Remembering That Nature is Our Home

The destruction of nature is the destruction of humanity. Nature is our home. All life on this planet, including, of course, human life, was born from the natural environment. The further we alienate ourselves from nature, the more unbalanced we become. Our future...

Details: Written by: Valerie Cleland

If We Protect Our Ocean, It Can Protect Us

Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) along with 25 original cosponsors has reintroduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act on World Oceans Day, June 8^th,2021. This is the type of visionary bill we need for this moment, recognizing that the ocean is a powerful source of solutions to the climate crisis.

Details: Written by: Roger Whitaker, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Cardiff University

Football fans often become so deeply connected to their club and to other fans, as though they’re related. They’re willing to support the group on a lifelong basis, with unwaivering pride even in the face of losses.

Details: Written by: Sebastian Leuzinger, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology

Would it be helpful to undertake a nationwide and coordinated mass planting of trees and plants that are known to have a high uptake of carbon dioxide such as paulownia and hemp alongside the attempts to plant natives?

Details: Written by: Dean Baker

Can We Bemoan Inequality as We Push Policies to Increase It?

We know it would be too much to expect that New York Times reporters might have some knowledge of policies that the United States had in place twenty or even ten years ago. After all, that would require some memory or some knowledge of history.

Details: Written by: Amy Yee

Many Asian Americans Are Struggling Invisibly

Like many low-wage restaurant workers, Su Hua Mei and her husband lost their jobs last spring as the pandemic took hold.

Details: Written by: Kellie Stellmach, Ensia

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When you picture solar power, chances are you conjure up images of large solar panels spanning the length of a rooftop or a large solar farm out in a field.

Details: Written by: Samantha Bruegger

In 2021, following the loss of Endangered Species Act protections, we learned a lot about wolves and fear. In Idaho, wolves used their gigantic teeth to kill all of 0.00428% of the state’s beloved cattle and sheep population.

Details: Written by: Jim Hightower

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Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really? What businesses would they choose?

Details: Written by: Gabriel Recchia, Research Associate, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge

Superforecasters: what pandemic planners can learn from the world's best predictors Experts got it catastrophically wrong, according to Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. Cummings has argued that the UK government’s official scientific advice in March 2020 hugely misunderstood how the pandemic would play out, leading to a delay in locking down

Details: Written by: Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University et al

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The Western U.S. appears headed for another dangerous fire season, and a new study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as the climate warms.

Details: Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick

How Can We Heal Our Broken World?

Age-old wisdom teaches, “You do not know something until you know its name.” When we name the sickness, the poison that oozes throughout our world, we can begin to fight it and defeat it.

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