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Written by: The Conversation
Feb. 15, 2020
Have some healthy skepticism when you encounter images online.
Written by: The Conversation
Feb. 14, 2020
New contagious diseases are scary. They frighten us because they are unknown and unpredictable.
Written by: The Conversation
Feb. 12, 2020
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 6, 2020
While one lawmaker has filed an ethics complaint against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, legal ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 4, 2020
Their activities during the singing of the national anthem before the start of the game became f ...
Written by: The Conversation
Feb. 1, 2020
Dinosaurs are so malleable that the constant reshaping of these popular animals has been driven ...
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Jan. 31, 2020
Iowans’ choices almost always end up matching the rest of the nation.
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Jan. 31, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s lawyers have resurrected distortions long since buried by ...
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 31, 2020
“Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to ac ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 27, 2020
Questions arose over whether it was intentional, a racial Freudian slip, or an innocent gaffe.
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 27, 2020
The framers understood that “high crimes and misdemeanors” included acts that may not necessaril ...
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Jan. 24, 2020
There’s so much we don’t know about the virus, which increases the level of concern from public ...
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 23, 2020
After 2020, California growers will be barred from using the insecticide chlorpyrifos on grapes ...
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Jan. 23, 2020
Distinctively black names are not a modern phenomenon.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 23, 2020
The proposal is aimed at "simplifying" nutritional guidelines and combating waste, the administr ...
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 21, 2020
The substantive part of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump is now underway.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 17, 2020
Advocates for intersex people said the medical community has failed to regulate itself on perfor ...
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 16, 2020
Humans are barraged by digital media 24/7. Is it really a problem?
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Jan. 16, 2020
A spat between Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren prompted a question about a future woma ...
Written by: The Conversation
Jan. 15, 2020
Debates over who gets citizenship and what kind of citizenship they get have always been intertw ...
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