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Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles of the week are listed below.
With the COVID-19 pandemic stretching into its eighth month and the presidential campaign entering its final stretch, keeping up with the news can be exhausting. How to cope? For me, the beautiful fall foliage surrounding my home in Massachusetts helps me relax. Jay Maddock, a professor of public health at Texas A&M University, explored the idea of doctors prescribing a little bit of nature in this article we published in 2019. It’s an idea that’s catching on around the world – in Japan, they call it “forest bathing.”
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House..
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Samuel Perry, Baylor University
The Christian right began to coalesce around social and cultural changes in the late 1970s. A scholar explains the emergence of conspiracy theories at the time.
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America’s top economists like to tell stories.
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Carolin Benack, Duke University
Realizing that economics is a lot like fiction helps us better evaluate the claims economists make about the world we all live in.
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Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Barrett has written 15 opinions in cases involving employment law that offer a window into her nuanced approach to disputes between workers and employers.
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Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University
A COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines would reduce the severity of COVID-19, save lives and prevent the worst cases.
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Peter Lehman, Arizona State University
Directors and audiences are becoming more comfortable with male frontal nudity. But what message does it send when almost all of the penises shown aren't real?
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