Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the “right to be let alone.” Perhaps Congress should give states trying to protect consumer data the same right.For years, a gridlocked ...
Jeff Sovern, Professor of Law, St. John's University
Populist alliances of 'cowboys and Indians' are protecting rural lands
A diverse coalition is resisting pipelines and other big projects.AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaThe sea of red on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republican...
Zoltan Grossman, Professor of Geography and Native Studies, Evergreen State College
Why are there so many candidates for president?
Seven Democratic presidential candidates gathered on national television early in the 1988 campaign to debate each other. The field of candidates, derided by Republicans as the “Seven Dwarfs,&rd...
Hans J. G. Hassell, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Florida State University
Stiff muscles are a counterintuitive superpower of NBA athletes
What helps an athlete leap tall distances in a single bound?AP Photo/Tom LynnFor most people, the term “stiffness” has negative connotations. When you wake up in the morning complaining of...
Philip Anloague, Chair and Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
21 questions for today's college graduates
Students hug after a ceremony at Tufts University May 3. The ceremony celebrated 58 students who are the first in their family to receive a college degree.Anna Miller/Tufts UniversityEditors note: At ...
James Glaser, Professor, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University
Laser of sound promises to measure extremely tiny phenomena
The crests (bright) and troughs (dark) of waves spread out after they were produced. The picture applies to both light and sound waves.Titima Ongkanto…
Doris Day was a sunny actress and a domestic violence survivor; are there lessons?
Doris Day pictured in 1965.AP File/AP PhotoHollywood legend Doris Day died May 13, 2019 at age 97 at her home in Carmel Valley, California. The beauti…
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Are tracking technologies changing parenting?Trendsetter ImagesThe use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably …
New Gates-funded commission aims to put a value on a college education
A growing movement is forming to focus on the economic benefits of a college degree.Alex Oakenman from www.shutterstock.comThe Gates Foundation is poi…
US fertility keeps dropping – but that's not a reason to panic
In 2018, the national birth rate hit a 32-year low.Pixel-Shot/shutterstock.comThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on May 15 that t…
Is Trump’s trade war saving American jobs – or killing them?
The Trump administration says its trade policy saved the U.S. steel industry.AP Photo/Jim MoneWith the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a l…
Your internet data is rotting
The internet is growing, but old information continues to disappear daily.wk1003mike/shutterstock.comMany MySpace users were dismayed to discover earl…
