In tandem with affirmative action, policies that guarantee college admission to students in the top 10 percent of their class could be a viable way to achieve diversity, a law professor argues.
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During epileptic seizures, neurons in the brain fire without rhyme or reason. New research identifies a possible way to wrest back control by stopping these signals before they can get started.
Like the WNBA, the NBA went through fits and starts in its early years. Yet despite drawing similar crowds in the 1960s, NBA players earned far bigger paychecks than today’s WNBA stars receive.
For online gamblers, there are many attractions to offshore sights, so governments must focus on arming consumers with better knowledge about its risk.
Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.
The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
La tecnología ha hecho más fáciles muchos aspectos de la vida diaria. Entonces, ¿por qué seguimos sintiéndonos tan abrumados?
Controversial judicial appointments and divisive court rulings are not the norm everywhere. Here’s what the US could learn from Europe about ensuring ideological balance on the Supreme Court.
Christine Hallquist this week became the first trans person to win a major party’s gubernatorial nomination. The percentage of trans adults has doubled since 2008. What’s responsible for that change?
An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft to Alpha Centauri at a major fraction of the speed of light.
While the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling dealt a blow to organized labor, three lessons from Nevada’s unions suggest things aren’t as bleak as they appear.
Technology has made many aspects of daily life much easier. So why do we still feel so overwhelmed?
If recent history repeats itself, the proposed repository for extremely dangerous nuclear waste will stay dead.
You should be aware of the amount of genetic information you might disclose in a research study – and what the benefits and risks will be.
With leagues lobbying for their share, a thriving illegal market that needs to be stifled, and bettors chomping at the bit, the headaches are just beginning.
A few years ago, a folklorist started gathering data on the creative ways graduates were embellishing their caps. From student debt to immigration, some themes quickly emerged.
But those hoping for a boon in tax revenues could be sorely mistaken: Sports betting isn’t as lucrative as it’s often portrayed to be.
The recent arrest of two black patrons who were waiting on a business meeting at a Starbucks has parallels to how black children are unfairly discipline in school, a researcher argues.
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase as Kepler retires.
And if you don’t, there’s still time to change.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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PhD Student in History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Director of Research, International Gaming Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Instructor in educational psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Assistant Professor, Marketing and International Business, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas