It’s OK, I’m a filter feeder: Whale shark off Indonesia.
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Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
Media coverage of sharks often exaggerates risks to people, but more than 500 shark species have never been known to attack humans, and there's lots to learn about them.
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Politics + Society
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Cristel Antonia Russell, American University Kogod School of Business
Teens who see alcohol on TV are more likely to drink. A marketing professor explains how to counter this phenomenon.
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Nora V. Demleitner, Washington and Lee University
Politicians on the left and right object to this practice, which the Trump administration is championing.
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Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
Where do old Confederate statues go when they die? The former Soviet bloc countries could teach the US something about dealing with monuments from a painful past.
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Science + Technology
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Sam Telford, Tufts University
Scientists know the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been out in the wild since long before any biological weapons research could have focused on it. And that's just for starters.
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Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service; William Bowers, Marine Corps University
A defender that can hold out while inflicting greater losses on its attacker can wear down an adversary – reducing the threat of additional attacks.
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Joseph Lanzafame, Rochester Institute of Technology
What exactly is inside those red fire extinguisher canisters, and does it work better than water?
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From our International Editions
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Milena Belloni, University of Trento
The flow of unaccompanied minors from Eritrea has become the subject of international concern.
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Howard Berry, University of Hertfordshire
Conspiracy theorists claim NASA used the Apollo special camera to stage the moon landings in a studio and then slowed down the footage to make it look like there was less gravity.
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Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario
Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won't solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start.
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David Johnson
University of Maryland
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Joseph Cesario
Michigan State University
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