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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, fundamentally changed the Supreme Court’s approach to women’s rights. Legal scholar Jonathan Entin, who clerked for Ginsburg, wrote an appreciation of her long, pioneering career. “Ginsburg’s work helped to change the way we all think about women,” says Entin, “and men, for that matter.”
Also this week – restoring butterfly habitat, this busy hurricane season and exciting news about Venus.
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Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg paying a courtesy call on Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., in June 1993, before her confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court.
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Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University
Before she became a Supreme Court justice, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work as an attorney in the 1970s changed the court’s approach to women's rights and how we think about women – and men.
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Monarch butterflies cover a tree at El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Michoacán, Mexico.
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D. André Green II, University of Michigan
Can a plan that brings together government and private landowners create enough habitat for monarch butterflies?
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With its largely white and older workers, this Portland, Oregon poll site is typical of poll sites across the U.S.
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Thessalia Merivaki, Mississippi State University
An army of mostly older, white volunteers run America's voting sites. They're reluctant to work during a pandemic. So new recruits are signing up to run the polls, for better and for worse.
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Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
News that Venus may harbor life has swept the globe. So how do we find out for sure? A planetary scientist explains what's next.
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Huatong Sun, University of Washington
Despite efforts to wall off regional or national internets, social media companies will have to continue aggressively competing across borders if they are to grow.
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Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
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Production limits mean that not everyone can get access to a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it’s developed..
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Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A bioethicist explains a recent report that recommends how to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine equitably.
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