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Professor Calls for Fighting Systemic Ignorance That Leads to Islamophobia in the Classroom

In the aftermath of several terrorist attacks over the weekend that involve Muslim suspects, we speak with professor Nazia Kazi of Stockton University about her latest article for The Chronicle of Higher

September 20, 2016
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Calls to Treat Terror Suspects as "Enemy Combatants" Push U.S. Toward Totalitarianism

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump responded to the weekend attacks by lashing out at Muslim immigrants and refugees, calling them a "cancer from within," while Democrat Hillary Clinton said Trump is helping

September 20, 2016
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Protests Erupt over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher & Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa & Charlotte

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We host a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to express outrage over the

September 21, 2016
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U.N. Summit for Refugees & Migrants Creates New Urgency for Global Crisis of 65 Million Displaced

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The first-ever United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants has produced a declaration for 193 member countries to conduct a more coordinated and humane response to the biggest migration upheaval since World

September 21, 2016
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Did Obama Host a Summit on Migrants While Ignoring a Refugee Crisis in the U.S.'s Own Backyard?

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We continue to look at the U.N. Summit for Refugees and Migrants, which produced a nonbinding declaration on developing a coordinated and humane response to the migration crisis. The United States objected

September 21, 2016
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Human Rights

375 top scientists warn of 'real, serious, immediate' climate threat

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Yesterday, 375 of the world’s top scientists, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter regarding climate change. In the letter, the scientists report that the evidence is clear: humans are causing climate change. We are now observing climate change and its affect across the globe. The seas are rising, the oceans are warming, the lower atmosphere is warming, the land is warming, ice is melting, rainfall patterns are changing and the ocean is becoming more acidic.

September 21, 2016
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Category: Environment

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The 20 big questions in science

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From the nature of the universe (that's if there is only one) to the purpose of dreams, there are lots of things we still don't know – but we might do soon.

August 31, 2013
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Category: Science

Resistance isn’t futile – how to tackle drug-resistant superbugs

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Low profit margins and the difficulty of finding new drugs has led to big pharma shutting down its antibiotics programmes. But now researchers are adopting new approaches to tackle drug-resistant superbugs

July 19, 2015
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Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study

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Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research Getting stuff right is normally regarded as science’s

September 20, 2016
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The science is mounting – giving babies peanuts and eggs cuts allergy risk

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Researchers now have ‘moderate’ certainty that infants should be given potential allergens from four months to help prevent severe reactions In the 1970s, when we were in school, food allergies

September 21, 2016
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