Long live the office.
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Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Deborah Salon, Arizona State University; Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The post-pandemic office will be a lot more flexible but still will be necessary to help build relationships among colleagues, according to three scholars.
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Health
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Zoe McLaren, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ideally everyone could get tested frequently for the coronavirus. No state is close to achieving this, but some are doing better than others. What are the challenges in meeting demand for testing?
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Ethics + Religion
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Anna Bigelow, Stanford University
The first Muslim prayer in 86 years was held on July 24 inside Hagia Sophia, recently reconverted to a mosque. For over a millennium, this grand monument has wielded enormous power.
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Abel R. Gomez, Syracuse University
Statues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra have been toppled by protesters in LA, San Francisco and Sacramento. Californians are questioning whether Serra was a saint or a colonizer – or both.
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Politics + Society
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Gerard Buckley, Rochester Institute of Technology
The 30th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act offers a chance to celebrate the greater inclusion of disabled Americans in mainstream society, but much work remains to be done.
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Education
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Jelani M. Favors, Clayton State University
Though he had a speech impediment and came from humble beginnings, John Lewis went on to become a giant of the civil rights movement.
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Science + Technology
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Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, Boise State University
Visualizations can help you understand data better – but they can also confuse or mislead. Here, some tips on what to watch out for.
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Arts + Culture
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Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
If it weren't for historical and biological happenstance, few would be eating avocados today.
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From our international editions
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Shabir Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand
There isn't enough clinical research being done in Africa. This has had a lot of repercussions in terms of the timing when interventions become available and effective in high income countries.
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Yael Annemiek Engbers, University of Liverpool; Andrew Biggin, University of Liverpool
The Earth's magnetic field is a lot weaker than we would expect around the island of St Helena.
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Norma Dunning, University of Alberta
First the Washington Redskins. And now the Edmonton Eskimos. It's about time professional sports franchises recognized the harm that comes from racist team names.
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