Black Panther has won countless fans and earned over $1 billion across the world. But, warns Alease A Brown, the film's high profile and runaway success doesn't prove that Hollywood has changed its ways. Black people should be wary of prematurely celebrating the end of racism in the movie industry.
Mexico City is still dotted with visual reminders of the massive earthquake that rocked it six months ago. And seismologists are still searching for answers to why this quake was fundamentally different from others that have struck the city. Xyoli Pérez-Campos and Diego Melgar explain what they've found.
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Black Panther.
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Alease A. Brown, Stellenbosch University
Hollywood will allow the world of the Black Panther to be black, only if it doesn't hurt white people's feelings.
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The epicenter of Mexico’s lethal September 2017 earthquake was less than 65 miles outside the nation’s capital.
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Diego Melgar, University of Oregon; Xyoli Pérez-Campos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Not all earthquakes are made equal. A new study on the 2017 quake that killed 300 in Mexico City finds that both its location and cause were unusual — but seismologists say another strike is possible.
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Politics + Society
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Gorm Rye Olsen, Roskilde University
The US secretary of state's visit to five African countries didn't have much to offer by way of investments and commerce.
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Jeffrey Fields, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
A former US Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hard-line approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
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Kim Beazley, University of Western Australia; L Gordon Flake, University of Western Australia
It is not yet midnight, but as the crisis deepens, the diplomatic and military options get more and more complex. And the possibility of war is now very real.
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Science + Technology
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David Blair, University of Western Australia
From a slow hum to a chirp or a bleep, what is that sound you hear whenever there's a new detection of gravitational waves?
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Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University
Understanding the past requires knowledge that goes beyond modern science.
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