Models based on where the mosquitoes that transmit Zika are found and human travel patterns to and from infected areas are key to predicting where the virus will spread.
Phones out, but today’s students are less likely to have Facebook or Twitter open.
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Young people are starting to skip the very public postings of some of social media’s original platforms. Why? And where will that leave the companies that rely on our willingness to divulge everything?
Why aren’t enough black students identified for gifted programs?
Howard County Library System
Two students – one black and one white – with the same math and reading achievement could have very different likelihoods of being identified as gifted.
Bernie Sanders at his caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
Reuters/Rick Wilking
Historically, environmental causes enjoyed bipartisan support but gains by NGOs and the emergence of climate change as a social issue have created a sharp political divide.
Martin Luther King Jr. statue.
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After years of being hailed as the shining example of post-Communist success, Poland is being depicted going ‘backward.’ What happened? And why is this significant for Europe?
It’s time to rethink content distribution.
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Netflix’s recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
The problems of diversity are deeply rooted, extending beyond an annual awards show.
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SAT prep is a multi-billion dollar industry today. Will the redesigned SAT restore its original goal of providing greater access to higher education for a diverse population?
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past.
Wellcome Library, London
While some ancient therapies proved effective enough that they are still used in some form today, on the whole they just aren’t as good as modern antimicrobials at treating infections.
Bernie supporters at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, January 24, 2016.
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The state takeover and fiscal crisis in Flint hamstrung city managers, making it hard to provide basic services like water.
Lining up potential pitfalls: nonexperts and computers may misinterpret the vertical line in this image as a natural feature rather than a result of a mosaic compilation of multiple satellite images.
Google Earth
Insults are tossed about in an election year but the word “demagogue” has a particular bite. But what is a demagogue and how do the 2016 candidates compare with demagogues in history?
Can a galaxy (like NGC 3810 in this case) have a classical spiral structure and also be already dead?
ESA/Hubble and NASA
Extragalactic astrophysicists want to know how and why galaxies stop forming stars, change their shape and fade away. With help from citizen scientists, they’re figuring it out.
Disinfecting municipal water systems is complex, but Flint made critical errors that led to the lead poisoning crisis.
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Treating municipal water, particularly from rivers, is difficult technically and cash-strapped municipalities like Flint don’t always know the latest science.
The leading conservative magazine National Review has played a critical role in creating modern GOP. Their repudiation of Trump signals crisis for Republicans.
Ethical coverage of Trump shouldn’t be a joke.
REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl
Just ask Megyn Kelly of Fox News. Covering the Trump campaign is no picnic. But journalists have a duty to do more than write clickbait stories on the billionaire candidate.
Municipal workers wait before spraying insecticide to prevent the spread of Aedes aegypti mosquito at Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 26, 2016.
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Zika was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil?
For some, it’s not so easy to forgive and forget…
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