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    Aug 14, 2020
    We know it’s difficult to put your trust in the media. We get it. Here’s a video we made to explain how The Conversation works – and why we think sharing news straight from trust-worthy experts is important to bringing research-based insights to the public
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    Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Jews from Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival, a Yiddish scholar from Mexico explains.
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    When worms enter a narrow channel, they actually speed up their movements, challenging the intuition that wider paths are faster and better.
    Worms navigate narrow paths faster than wide ones – these findings could inform robot design
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    Elected officials across Texas are increasingly treating ordinary Muslim religious practice – prayer, dress, marriage counseling, dispute mediation, even mosques themselves – as evidence of a political threat and saying so openly.
    In Texas, ordinary Muslim religious practices are increasingly being treated as political threats
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    Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization, the SPLC, raise a crucial question: What are the ethical limits on research about often-dangerous groups?
    Indictments against a top extremism researcher and the SPLC force a reckoning on research ethics –...
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