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During a recent visit to India, Trump spoke at the world’s largest cricket stadium. Cricket came to India in the 18th century through British sailors and is a revered cultural institution in India.
Addiction to cocaine is wildly difficult to conquer. But physicians may soon have a new type of gene therapy for patients that makes the drug less alluring.
Prenatal and postnatal antibiotic exposure combined with oxygen treatment led to lung inflammation and altered immunity in a study in mice.
How many genes do you really need? Are there any that we can lose? Researchers are now identifying species that have streamlined their genome to adapt to a particular lifestyle.
Fungi live in everyone’s gut – but now a new study reveals that this colonization may begin before birth.
The baby boomers aren’t going to do anything like their elders, and looking for different housing arrangements is yet another example.
Where do old Confederate statues go when they die? The former Soviet bloc countries could teach the US something about dealing with monuments from a painful past.
History shows that when government elites believe that there is a risk that they may lose control of the capital, they escalate targeted violence against civilians.
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers who fled the South after the Civil War.
Iraq beat the Islamic State. Now, its Shia government is jailing and even executing all suspected terrorists – most of them Sunni Muslims. The clampdown may inflame a centuries-old sectarian divide.
New research reveals that changes in attitudes led to Sinn Féin’s landslide victory – not the new surge of young voters.
When activists have sought to rename main thoroughfares that don’t serve just primarily black neighborhoods, they have faced many challenges.
Monuments to the Confederacy in New Orleans and many other cities are problematic. But a mere erasure will not address the issues around racism and racial inequality.
The current state of emergency in Ethiopia is the last attempt by the Tigrayan-led regime to stop the Oromo and Amhara protests and maintain political power.
For the first time, all Oromo branches have come together to fight for their national self-determination and democracy
The money might be a little better, but the lewd comments and unwanted advances may have a negative impact on the mental health of waitresses.
Slow, lazy, stupid? It’s time to update your impression of the crocodilians. These animals are up to amazing things that we’re only beginning to observe and recognize.
Some 220m years ago, the Triassic Period marked the beginning of the age of dinosaurs. But by the time the earliest dinosaurs were just starting to appear in the fossil record, it was distant relatives…
It’s often said that there was no tradition of scientific medicine in medieval times. According to the usual narrative of the history of progress, medicine in the European Middle Ages – from around the…
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), University of Tennessee
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Professor of supply chain management, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
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Lecturer in Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee
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Graduate Research Assistant in Plant Science, University of Tennessee
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PhD Student in Geography, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management; Co-Founder of CODE, University of Tennessee
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
