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Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles are listed below.
A good read you may have missed: Winter in New England is always a dark, difficult season for me. This winter, it is clear, will be hard for almost everyone I know. After the excitement of closing the door on 2020 and welcoming a new year, it is now clear that we have many long and chilly months of social distancing ahead of us.
Back in March, when the pandemic was still new, Erin C. Westgate of the University of Florida offered six tips for fighting off boredom while hanging around your home. At the time, few of us realized how long we would have to keep it up – but the advice is still solid today.
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Crowds carrying hate symbols as they stormed the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
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Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
The crowds that stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6 were not just engaged in an effort to support Trump. The symbols they carried were of an extreme form of anti-Semitism.
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Just because he’s leaving office doesn’t mean Donald Trump will stop being a threat to democracy.
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James D. Long, University of Washington; Victor Menaldo, University of Washington
Scholars of democracy say the real threat to the nation will come after Trump leaves office.
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Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Consumers can turn plastic waste into valuable products at minimal cost using the open source technologies associated with DRAM – distributed recycling and additive manufacturing.
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Jill Joyce, Oklahoma State University
Anti-nutrients naturally occur in food and can block the amount of other nutrients available for your body to use. But their effects aren't all bad, which is why they're undergoing an image makeover.
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Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi
Who cares what happens to bootprints on the Moon? All humans should. And thankfully the US Congress and president agree.
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