How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out
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How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out
A nuclear engineer explains how the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors peaceful nuclear programs, and why it’s worrisome that Iran stopp...
#OTD in 1925, the Scopes Trial began, drawing national attention as celebrity lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan faced off in a high-stakes clash over evolution and religion in public schools. A century later, the debate lives on — 1 in 4 Americans still reject evolution.
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1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
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People at the highest levels of wealth and power have deeply complex emotional relationships with money. But the field of financial therapy has largely overlooked them, explains a finance professor.
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Why male corporate leaders and billionaires may need financial therapy more than anyone
Corporate leaders see their decisions as purely rational, but emotions, especially those tied to masculinity, may play a bigger role than they admit.
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Cutting $1.1 billion from public media could silence rural stations that are the lifelines of their communities, devastate Native American media, and gut a vital source of public-service journalism.
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Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism
Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.
How QAnon and all the attention to the "Epstein Files" fit together
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How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
The foundational belief of many of the QAnon followers is that Donald Trump is the heroic figure fighting the elite pedophile ring.
Ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle never knew about #AI, but their ideas on intelligence and thinking offer surprising insights into modern debates about machines that seem to think.
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Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
Whether AI can ‘think’ is a different question than whether it is ‘intelligent.’
Ugandan President Idi Amin once suggested he replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of the Commonwealth, citing Britain's "collapsing economy" and the end of its empire. A look at how Amin positioned Uganda on the world stage:
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Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today
A new book delves into the tactics and people that propped up the brutal Ugandan dictator’s regime.
Vitamin D supplements may be a promising, low-cost strategy to support brain development while reducing racial disparities, according to a professor of nutrition science.
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About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research
Vitamin D has long been known to play essential roles in boosting immune health and protecting the nervous system. New research now points to its c...
Populist governments are mobilizing emotions like nostalgia and resentment to justify eroding academic freedom and reshaping higher education. Scholars who study nationalism, emotion and higher education explore this troubling strategy:
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Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education
Populist, right-wing governments often target universities as enemies of the state. The Trump administration is watching − and learning.