By A.D. Carson, Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
Why do rap lyrics continue to be used to demonize people inside and outside the courtroom, in ways that no other art form has to contend with?
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By Peter Adams, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Using existing backup generators as regular sources of electricity would emit lots of pollution into American skies and endanger people’s health.
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By Kyle Manley, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado’s two largest fires on record, the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires, burned hundreds of thousands of acres across some of the state’s most visited landscapes in 2020.
The fires scorched trails, campgrounds and beloved ecosystems in and around Rocky Mountain National…
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By Guillermo Candiz, Assistant Professor, Human Plurality, Université de l'Ontario français
Tanya Basok, Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
The U.S. strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Global South countries is abhorrent. Migration scholars, human rights organizations and allies must co-ordinate, organize and actively resist.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A villager who had volunteered to fetch gunny bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, February 6, 2020. © 2020 Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report on South Sudan offers a damning indictment of the immense suffering to civilians caused by the country’s warring parties. The report, issued on April 28, warns that the situation is worse than anticipated, with 7.8 million people in desperate need of food aid. It notes that…
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By Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Macquarie University
Greater public fuel reserves will be held in Australia and more fuel kept in private stocks. The government’s new fuel plans are sensible – just late.
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By Helen A. L. Currie, Research Fellow and Centre Manager, Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth
Irene Gregory-Eaves, Professor of Biology, McGill University
Steven J Cooke, Canada Research Professor, Conservation Physiology, Carleton University
In central Seoul, South Korea, a motorway once covered a buried urban stream. Today, that same stretch has been uncovered – a process known as daylighting – and this river is home to plants, fish and insects. This flowing water cools the city in summer and attracts tens of thousands of people every day. What used to be concrete now boosts biodiversity, the local economy and community wellbeing.
Similar transformations are unfolding elsewhere.
In Christchurch, New Zealand, river habitats and wetlands were rebuilt after a major earthquake in 2011, guided in part by Māori…
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By Kathryn McDonald, Principal Academic in Audio Production, Bournemouth University
This first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation.
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By Jon Rainford, Lecturer in Education, The Open University
Alex Blower, Research Fellow, Arts University Bournemouth
Across the UK, working‑class boys are navigating an unprecedented convergence of pressures. There are entrenched gaps between working-class boys and their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of education.
Often, however, the solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in assumptions…
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By Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Catedrático de Ingeniería Química. Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinar en Tecnologías Ambientales - CRETUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
A simple stroll along a beach on a windy day can be mesmerising. It’s easy to spend hours watching waves crash and sea foam fizz across the sand, but this beautiful yet fleeting phenomenon can also give us clues about the health of the ocean.
Sea foam is produced by the turbulence caused by the force of the waves and the wind which, when combined with organic matter (mainly plankton), forms a mixture of water and air bubbles that clump together and rise to the surface as foam.
This colloidal…
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