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Protests, sectarian violence and a growing spat with India: Bangladesh’s new leaders are beset with challenges to its democracy

Protests, sectarian violence and a growing spat with India: Bangladesh’s new leaders are beset with challenges to its democracy  Author: Manoj Misra, Associate Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University

December 6, 2024

When student-led, anti-government protests in Bangladesh snowballed into the ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year-long autocratic rule in August 2024, many...

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What is the ‘way of the warrior’? Students investigate the arts of war and peace in this course about virtue and the ethics of violence

What is the ‘way of the warrior’? Students investigate the arts of war and peace in this course about virtue and the ethics of violence  Author: Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College

December 6, 2024

A painting by Yoshifusa Utagawa shows the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi, left, fighting Sasaki Kojiro. Artelino via Wikimedia Commons Uncommon...

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Trump attacks diversity, but a fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − worked to represent all Americans in a multiracial democracy

Trump attacks diversity, but a fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − worked to represent all Americans in a multiracial democracy  Author: Sandhya Shukla, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia

December 6, 2024

Vito Marcantonio appears in front of his office on First Avenue in New York City in 1948. The New York...

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Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive

Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive  Author: Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno

December 6, 2024

Did your head literally explode? No, but you can say it did. John Lund/Stone via Getty Images Few words so...

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What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks

What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks  Author: Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer, CSEE & Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

December 6, 2024

The U.S. says Chinese hackers have penetrated America's phone networks – and are still inside them. Anton Petrus/Moment via Getty...

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Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve  Author: Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona

December 6, 2024

Evolution, the process of change, governs life on Earth − and potentially different forms of life in other places. Just_Super/E+...

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What does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth

What does the NASA administrator do? The agency’s leader reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics back on Earth  Author: Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University

December 6, 2024

The head of NASA represents the agency to Congress and on the global stage. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Leaders of NASA...

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Water fluoridation helps prevent tooth decay – how growing opposition threatens a 70-year-old health practice

Water fluoridation helps prevent tooth decay – how growing opposition threatens a 70-year-old health practice  Author: Amal Noureldin, Clinical Professor of Cariology, Prevention and Restorative Dentistry, Texas A&M University

December 6, 2024

Fluoride is a mineral found in water that strengthens teeth and helps prevent cavities. vitapix/E+ via Getty Images Driving through...

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Supreme Court could narrow the scope of federal environmental reviews, with less consideration of how projects would contribute to climate change

Supreme Court could narrow the scope of federal environmental reviews, with less consideration of how projects would contribute to climate change  Author: J.B. Ruhl, Professor of Law, Director, Program on Law and Innovation, and Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University

December 6, 2024

NEPA reviews are a tool for informing the public about how major federal actions could affect the environment. May Lim...

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Avian flu virus has been found in raw milk − a reminder of how pasteurization protects health

Avian flu virus has been found in raw milk − a reminder of how pasteurization protects health  Author: Kerry E. Kaylegian, Associate Research Professor of Food Science, Penn State

December 6, 2024

Pasteurizing milk kills disease-causing pathogens that dairy cattle pick up in fields and barns. steverts, iStock /Getty Images Plus As...

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