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Now that the Winter Olympics have ended, what will happen to South Korea’s Pyeongchang region? Will it become the Asian winter sports hub that the country’s Olympic organizers envisioned? Or will projects like the high-speed rail linking Seoul to Pyeongchang end up as expensive Olympic boondoggles? Penn State urban designer Jim Sipes worked as a consultant for the Atlanta and London Games. He knows from firsthand experience that when it comes to the Olympics, lofty visions don’t always mesh with reality.
President Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers to prevent school shootings. In fact, researchers recently found that the decision to carry a gun creates so many mental and legal worries that it leads some gun owners to simply leave their guns at home. While putting guns in the hands of teachers, the scholars argue, “may reduce the risk of being powerless during an attack, it also introduces substantial and overlooked risks to the carrier and others.”
Many words have been used to describe the growing political divide in America. But Colorado State’s Michael Carolan – guided by the writer’s dictum, “Show, don’t tell” – presents those divisions in a novel way: word clouds that go beyond “red-blue” and “urban-rural” and allow groups on either side of the divide to describe themselves.
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Nick Lehr
Arts + Culture Editor
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Will structures like the Gangneung Ice Arena be worth the investment once the games wrap up?
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James Sipes, Pennsylvania State University
South Korea's lofty vision of transforming the region into a winter sports hub may be pipe dream.
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Research shows that carrying a gun for self-defense comes with a host of risks.
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Aimee Huff, Oregon State University; Michelle Barnhart, Oregon State University
While President Donald Trump suggests arming teachers would be a good way to stop school shootings, research shows that carrying firearms comes with a host of troublesome risks.
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In a divided United States, how can we describe who is on each side?
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Michael Carolan, Colorado State University
There's a new way to reveal America's political divide. One researcher finds the differences between groups that are normally crudely described as 'right-left' can be better explained by word clouds.
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Economy + Business
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Michael Siegel, Boston University
Gunmakers should be at the center of any discussion of the root causes of violence, and a closer look at firearms sales reveals some interesting trends.
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Robert Spitzer, State University of New York College at Cortland
The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
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Health + Medicine
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Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
When mass shootings occur, some people insist the focus should be on mental illness, not gun control. A psychiatrist explains how that view misses the mark.
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Jed Magen, Michigan State University
Social isolation is linked to higher blood pressure, lower cognitive abilities and even increased chances of premature death.
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Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Changes in how we're spending our free time is a likely culprit.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Feb. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Gunnerside. A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi facility and stopped Hitler from getting the atomic bomb.
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Gail Dines, Wheelock College
While parents are growing more concerned about their children's easy access to porn, they often don't realize just how 'hardcore' and violent it has become and how early their kids are seeing it.
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