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A note from...
Kalpana Jain
Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
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Today’s children face risks that many of us, as parents, can feel unprepared to deal with. There are apps that promise safety by letting parents track what children are doing, who they are texting or what they view online. These apps seem to be the perfect toolkit to protect kids from the dangers parents worry about. But are they?
As a parent and ethics editor, I turned to UMass Lowell’s Joel Michael Reynolds, who specializes in the ethics of emerging technologies, to find out what the evidence is that these apps provide safety for kids. He explains why he’s concerned these apps may cross the line from “prudent parenting into surveillance parenting.”
Also today we have stories on Native Americans and rural whites finding common cause, NBA players’ little-known superpower and the role the media and money play in the high number of presidential candidates.
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Are tracking technologies changing parenting?
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Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Apps these days allow parents to track their children. An expert explains, why these technologies should be a reason for worry if you are a parent,
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Politics + Society
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Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State College
By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together, these different groups are building unity through diversity.
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Hans J. G. Hassell, Florida State University
The number of candidates in presidential primaries has skyrocketed since the 2016 election. Divisions inside political parties and easy ways for candidates to raise money are among the reasons why.
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Science + Technology
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Philip Anloague, University of Dayton
It probably sounds bad or uncomfortable to you. But stiffness is part of what gives elite athletes the spring in their muscles.
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Mishkat Bhattacharya, Rochester Institute of Technology; Nick Vamivakas, University of Rochester
Most people are familiar with lasers. But what about a laser made with sound rather than light? A couple of physicists have now created one that they plan to use for measuring imperceivable forces.
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Education
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James Glaser, Tufts University
At a special commencement ceremony for first-generation college graduates, a dean gave a speech made up of nothing but questions.
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Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University
A political scientist explains how a new commission that wants to measure the economic value of a college degree could end up devaluing the liberal arts.
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Health + Medicine
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Joan M. Cook, Yale University
Que sera, sera? Well, maybe not. Nothing says that women have to accept the status quo. Doris Day spoke out about wife-beating in an era in which it wasn't accepted. Surely there are lessons.
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Caroline Sten Hartnett, University of South Carolina
The number of births in the US is down 2% – to what the CDC calls 'the lowest number of births in 32 years.' This drop brings the US more in line with its peers.
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Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
An economist explains why the US and Chinese governments are most likely to dig in their heels rather than find a compromise to end the costly trade conflict.
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Jack Barkenbus, Vanderbilt University
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world's total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster.
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Adewole S. Adamson, University of Texas at Austin
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, but the messaging around sunscreen for people with black skin needs to changes. Sunscreen has never been shown to reduce skin cancer risk in black people.
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