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Gamblers around the country are rejoicing over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a federal ban on sports betting, but now comes the hard part: Each state must decide whether or not to legalize it. According to University of Nevada Las Vegas sports gambling expert Jennifer Roberts, state regulators will need to navigate a tricky set of issues, from whether esports count as a sport to whether professional sports leagues should be able to cash in on the profits.
UCSD’s Daniel McDonald spends his days thinking about your poop. He is the director of the American Gut Project, a large citizen science initiative that encourages thousands of participants to mail in stool samples. After studying more than 10,000 samples, his team is reporting some intriguing discoveries – including what happens to antibiotics fed to livestock.
And lastly, while the sexual revolution of the 1960’s may have made wanting sex acceptable for women, it didn’t do as much for women’s orgasms, writes Laurie Mintz, a human sexuality and psychology professor at the University of Florida. Mintz explains why she thinks it’s important to “foster pleasure equality.”
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Nick Lehr
Arts + Culture Editor
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Top stories
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People line up to place bets in the sports book at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
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Jennifer Roberts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
With leagues lobbying for their share, a thriving illegal market that needs to be stifled, and bettors chomping at the bit, the headaches are just beginning.
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Though examining poop samples scientists working on the American Gut Project are getting a new perspective on the microbes in our guts.
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Daniel McDonald, University of California San Diego
In the largest citizen science experiment to date, 11,336 people sent poop samples to this San Diego lab so that microbiologists could figure out how the microbes in our guts make us healthy or sick.
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Women’s sexual pleasure has not been stressed as much as men’s.
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Laurie Mintz, University of Florida
The sexual revolution made it acceptable for women to have premarital sex. Yet, an orgasm gap remains. Addressing the cultural forces driving this gap has social implications beyond pleasure itself.
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Politics + Society
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João Feres Júnior, Rio de Janeiro State University; Fabio Kerche, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
Leftist former President Lula da Silva is the clear favorite in Brazil's 2018 presidential race, leading his closest rival — a firebrand conservative — by 15 points. The only problem: He's in jail.
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Garret Martin, American University School of International Service
The Iran nuclear deal will struggle to survive the damage done when Trump pulled the US out on May 8. So will US-Europe relations.
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Science + Technology
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Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
Most people have all sorts of breadcrumbs of their identity scattered around the internet. A dedicated sleuth can piece them together and reveal private information in a very public way.
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Matt Bertone, North Carolina State University
This Speed Read makes the case why you should be nice to spiders you encounter in your home and consider a live-and-let-live policy.
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Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
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Catharine Wang, Boston University
More people are sending off saliva samples to find out about their genetic roots. But the raw DNA results go way beyond genealogical data – and could deliver unintended consequences.
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Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University
Most people know that the First Amendment protects free speech. But two upcoming Supreme Court cases reveal how it also gives people in the US the right not to speak.
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