Vaccines protect your children and others, too
by Roger Chesley, Virginia Mercury December 13, 2024 Parents in Virginia who don’t vaccinate their young children, a percentage that’s grown over the past decade, are making a risky bet…
From bean-counters to cyber-sleuths: how accountants are a frontline defence against online crime
Zhongtian Li, University of Newcastle; Christina Boedker, University of Newcastle; Jing Jia, University of Newcastle; Karen Handley, University of Newcastle, and Nirmala Nath, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University…
How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch
By Arthur Allen , KFF Health News December 6, 2024 The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the…
AI Jesus might ‘listen’ to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month…
Despair Is Not an Option, So Here’s What We Must Do
By: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) We have got to take on Trump and the oligarchs. And the best way to do that is to educate and organize, educate and organize. You…
Podcast: Cannabis and Severe Mental Health Disorders
December 2, 2024 by The Editors Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is cannabis safe for people with severe mental health disorders? The…
Ukraine’s UN ambassador: America can’t be great if it allows Russia to win war in Ukraine
by Tim Carpenter, Kansas ReflectorNovember 13, 2024 LAWRENCE — Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations said President-elect Donald Trump and the newly
How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans
Michael Carrafiello, Miami University Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of…
An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis How will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal…
Rest as Resistance
In 1835, as legal slavery flourished in the South, abolitionists—who morally opposed the institution and sought to end it—began circulating pamphlets. Abolitionist organizations filled these pamphlets with information and woodcut…