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Cracking down on gerrymandering isn’t enough to make elections more competitive.
More than 600,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. A new report says the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro are responsible for around half.
The G-7 nations, which include the US and UK, form the foundation of the modern global economy.
The COVID-19 cases are surging in Nepal, potentially surpassing India’s reproduction rate, but the country is out of vaccines. Global aid could help with one of the worst health crises in South Asia.
Vaccine hesitancy will not go away fast. In fact, there are parallels in the physical world to how quickly or slowly an object returns to its normal state.
In Florida and North Carolina, mail ballots cast by minority voters and Democrats are disproportionately likely to face rejection.
Les employées domestiques comptent parmi les premières victimes du Covid-19 au Brésil. Bon nombre d’entre elles se retrouvent aujourd’hui sans emploi, parfois sans aucune ressource.
Maids were among Brazil’s earliest COVID-19 victims, infected by employers who had been to Italy. Now 39% of Brazilian ‘domésticas’ have been let go, most without severance or sick leave.
Researchers and public health officials still don’t know how widespread nor how deadly the coronavirus really is. Random testing is a way to quickly and easily learn this important information.
Despite more rainfall, devastating hot and dry spells are projected to become more frequent in the Upper Nile basin in the future.
Free community college is touted as a way to make college more accessible. But research shows making community college free comes at a cost to four-year colleges.
When done properly, a simulation exercise is a useful tool for evaluating preparedness for a public health emergency.
Rencana baru California untuk memerangi perubahan iklim global merupakan rencana yang inovatif. Tapi menimbulkan pertanyaan etis yang rumit tanpa jawaban yang mudah.
California’s new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy answers.
After the failure of multiple drug trials the outlook for an Alzheimer’s drug is bleak. This shouldn’t be a surprise. We don’t know the cause or even how to diagnose the disease.
The tech giants are consistently failing to protect children.
Medio siglo después del debut del clásico de Kubrick-Clarke, seguimos discutiendo sobre cómo debería ser y evolucionar la inteligencia artificial.
People are still wrestling with what artificial intelligence could and should do, half a century after the debut of the Kubrick-Clarke classic.
Our neural circuits lead us to find comfort in those like us and unease with those who differ, resulting in a battle between reward and distrust. But these brain connections aren’t the end of the story.
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Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
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Visiting Lecturer, Dartmouth College
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William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Associate Dean for the Sciences, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College
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Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
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Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
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Research Fellow at National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Dartmouth College
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
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Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
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William Clinton Story Remsen '43 Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
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Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Mathematics, Dartmouth College
