One of the objectionable panels depicts a dead Native American.
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Amna Khalid, Carleton College; Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Carleton College
'The Life of Washington' was painted in the 1930s by an artist who sought to upend a rosy narrative of US history. Now some are saying its images 'traumatize' viewers – and ought to be taken down.
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Daylight saving time is an artificial way of adjusting time, but nothing changes when the sun rises and sets.
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Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Humans have natural cycles for when they are active and for when they sleep. Modern work and school schedules interfere with this, and more studies are showing why there's a possible health risk.
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This week’s highlights
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Eric Fleury, College of the Holy Cross
A terrorism expert exposes the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy strategy behind the State Department's terrorist watchlist.
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Felice Frankel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Using an artistic eye when creating pictures of scientific phenomena and new technologies can elevate the resulting images in terms of both their beauty and how informative they are.
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Jillian Peterson, Hamline University ; James Densley, Metropolitan State University
The 1999 Columbine high school shooting spawned a generation of school shooters who tried to copy it, research shows.
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Shawn Olson Hazboun, Evergreen State College; Hilary Boudet, Oregon State University
The 'thin green line' of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles.
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Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo College
A valedictorian at Brigham Young University came out in his address as a 'gay son of God.' And his admission met with loud applause. An expert explains how big a change this is for the Mormon Church.
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Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell
How do you train space engineers? You enable college students to build mini satellites, called CubeSats, launch them into space and help them collect the data.
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Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
Trump's embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
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Mattie Milner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Stephen Rice, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
How willing are people to accept medical care from a robot or an automated system? It depends on the procedure – and the price.
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Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California
Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
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Ken Hughes, University of Virginia
President Trump has invoked executive privilege to stymie congressional investigators. Another president, Richard Nixon, did the same thing. It helped Nixon hold onto power – but only for a while.
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Mother’s Day
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Scott T. Allison, University of Richmond
Psychology researchers are interested in what makes a hero. Turns out many mothers tick off those same boxes by fulfilling a range of needs for their offspring.
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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, The Ohio State University
The quest to be a 'perfect' mother versus a 'good' mother may actually harm a mother’s parenting.
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Alexandra Killewald, Harvard University; Xiaolin Zhuo, Harvard University
For many working women, motherhood is a major interruption to their career. Some eventually work their way back up to full-time work, but there are many other paths that women might follow.
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Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This penalty can amount to more than 15 percent of a mom's paycheck. Ramping up paid maternity leave and high-quality child care would probably help narrow the gap.
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