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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Clites, Case Western Reserve University(THE CONVERSATION) Widespread public shock followed the recent release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report that identified more than 1,000 child victims of clergy sexual abuse. In fact, as I know through my research, the Vatican and its American bishops have known about the problem of priestly pedophilia since at least the 1950s. And

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) P. Richard Hahn, Arizona State University(THE CONVERSATION) “Data science” is hot right now. The number of undergraduate degrees in statistics has tripled in the past decade, and as a statistics professor, I can tell you that it isn’t because freshmen love statistics. Way back in 2009, economist Hal Varian of Google dubbed statistician the “next sexy job.” Since then, statistician,

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Howard J. Herzog, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(THE CONVERSATION) In a much-anticipated report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the world will need to take dramatic and drastic steps to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Featured prominently in the report is a discussion of a range of techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change and advocating the use of a carbon tax to curb global warming. It’s no small irony, then, that on the same day his research shared in the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lynn Panton, Florida State University and Ashley Artese, Roanoke College(THE CONVERSATION) Breast cancer research has resulted in treatment that has greatly improved survival rates. As a result, there are 3.1 million breast cancer survivors alive in the United States today. The five-year survival rate is about 90 percent. This is great news.But, survivors are still left to struggle

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Pride, University of California San Diego and Chandrabali Ghose, The Rockefeller University(THE CONVERSATION) If you think you don’t have viruses, think again.It may be hard to fathom, but the human body is occupied by large collections of microorganisms, commonly referred to as our microbiome, that have evolved with us since the early days of man. Scientists have only

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Nourse, University of Richmond(THE CONVERSATION) I’ve been visiting the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi, a province in Indonesia, for the past 38 years as part of my anthropological fieldwork.So it was particularly harrowing for me to read about the 7.7 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that decimated the city on Sept. 28. The full scope of the devastation hasn’t come into

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) B. Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University(THE CONVERSATION) With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, some are wondering: Will Roe v. Wade, the landmark case recognizing a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, continue to be the law of the land? Kavanaugh told Sen. Susan Collins, a key vote to approve his nomination, that he viewed Roe v.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College(THE CONVERSATION) From my first day as a sociology professor at a university with a Division I football and men’s basketball team, education and athletics struck me as being inherently at odds. Student-athletes filled my courses to take advantage of the fact that the classes met early in the morning.The football and men’s basketball players – most of

Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali is taking his charity project worldwide to build on its work of bringing soccer to Syrian refugees in Jordan

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