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Editor's note
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As Black History Month continues, a scholar casts a light on African-American women aging with HIV. Not only is this group often overlooked, but their struggles to stay healthy may be misunderstood. A specialist in medical anthropology and epidemiology, Thurka Sangaramoorthy interviewed dozens of these women and tells their stories, which are often filled with abuse and trauma, but always survival.
Many U.S. cities are making big investments to promote walking and biking. Why, then, are pedestrian and cyclist deaths in traffic accidents rising nationwide? As John Rennie Short, professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, explains, a shifting mix of people, bikes and cars on urban streets can be deadly.
Photoshop and artificial intelligence have made it easier than ever to mock up sophisticated fake photographs. During major news events, like natural disasters, these untrustworthy images tend to blow up on social media. Don’t want to get tricked? Photo forensics scholar Hany Farid shares some tips on how to avoid the fakes.
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Lynne Anderson
Senior Health + Medicine Editor
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Top stories
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From left to right: Toya Tolson, Shawnte’ Spriggs, Sophia Harrison, Marcella Wright and Deborah Dyson. These women are aging with HIV, sometimes with other diseases and always with other challenges.
Aamir Khuller
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, University of Maryland
More people than ever are living with HIV, but people may overlook the fact that many of these long-term survivors are African-American women. They face unique social and health challenges.
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Cycling advocates set up ‘ghost bikes,’ like this one in Brooklyn, in memory of bikers killed in traffic.
Nick Gray
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
US cities were designed and engineered around cars. Now some are working to increase walking and biking, but the shift isn't easy.
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Nope, not a real news report from Hurricane Irma.
Snopes
Hany Farid, Dartmouth College
It's easier than ever to create a fake image and spread it far and wide online. But there are steps that you can take to protect yourself from fishy photos.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Frederick Johnson, San Diego State University
In a global economy, passing laws to conserve forests, fisheries or other natural resources can simply shift demand for those goods to other countries or regions where they aren't as well protected.
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Eric Smith, Tulane University
It will be hard and complicated to replace Venezuela's heavy sour crude.
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Politics + Society
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Eric Keels, University of Tennessee; Angela D. Nichols, Florida Atlantic University
Iraq beat the Islamic State. Now, its Shia government is jailing and even executing all suspected terrorists – most of them Sunni Muslims. The clampdown may inflame a centuries-old sectarian divide.
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Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton
The majority of US state legislatures are controlled by Republicans because legislative districts are drawn to favor them. Voters are catching on, but change will be slow.
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Nathan Jensen, University of Texas at Austin; Calvin Thrall, University of Texas at Austin
Amazon nixed plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City after some New Yorkers questioned the wisdom of offering billions in tax breaks in exchange for job promises. A Texas study suggests they had reason to worry.
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Francis X. Shen, University of Minnesota
Intimacy with robots is closer than you think, and cities are already fighting the advent of sexbot brothels. Yet society has barely begun to explore their implications.
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Jillian Peterson, Hamline University ; James Densley, Metropolitan State University
School shooters typically show warning signs long before they become killers, but educators are sometimes ill-equipped to act on what they see, two researchers who are analyzing mass shooters say.
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