Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia, which contains 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may become the newest U.S. national park. But here's the catch: the redesignation won't actually offer additional legal protection or funding for the site.
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What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
Hanukkah’s story of the heroism of Judah Maccabee and his brothers ignores two inspiring women who were prominent in the earliest tellings of the story.
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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday’s forgotten heroes: Women
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees. But women are also her...
The new film “Nuremberg” highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
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The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whe...
The NIH paused funding for growing human organs inside pigs in 2015 over fears that human cells might make pigs too human. Yet regulators now approve putting pig organs in humans. A bioethicist examines the inconsistent logic.
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
How many human cells does a pig need before it’s considered too human?
Jewish Christmas traditions date back centuries in Europe. But in the U.S., new traditions arose, with Chinese food becoming the most famous way Jews marked a day when most of the world shut down.
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Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews
What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian...
Ever wonder why people can’t use their feet like chimpanzees, easily grasping things with our toes just as easily as we do with our fingers? A biological anthropologist explains:
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Why can’t I wiggle my toes one at a time, like my fingers?
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
When George W. Bush called Iran, Iraq and North Korea an "axis of evil," he wasn't describing reality. He was creating a reality in the public imagination. An international relations scholar explains how this metaphor has shaped geopolitics for decades.
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From evil to upheaval and beyond: How the ‘axis’ metaphor shaped modern geopolitics
Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
Recent statements by a new Fed governor highlights how the Federal Reserve technically has a mandate to keep long-term interest rates, like mortgage rates, moderate. An economist explains why this goal is already embedded in the Fed’s other two goals.
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How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’
Recent news reports highlighted how the Fed technically has a third mandate – moderate long-term interest rates. An economist explains how the ob...
Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. follows Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox and Amazon's acquisition of MGM. US industries have traditionally consolidated into 3 to 5 main players. This acquisition would combine the biggest streaming service with the 4th largest, HBO Max.
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Netflix-Warner deal would drive streaming market further down the road of ‘Big 3’ domination
US industries have traditionally consolidated into 3 to 5 main players. When it comes to streaming, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney are the top trio.
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Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s what psychology researchers found when they sifted through 38 million published from 1998 to 2024
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What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a ‘life well lived’
Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s a glimpse into how the moral vocabulary has evolved over several decades.