Notices by The Conversation U.S. (theconversationus@newsie.social), page 3

Will #Israel and #Iran now escalate into full-scale warfare, or will they return to the "shadow war" they've been fighting for decades?

An expert on U.S. national security and counterterrorism who served on the National Intelligence Council says there's reason to believe Iran will be wary of making additional public attacks
https://theconversation.com/shadow-war-no-more-hostilities-between-israel-and-iran-have-strayed-into-direct-warfare-is-there-any-going-back-227877
#News #BreakingNews

Not just any eyewear will do. Don’t fall for deceptive counterfeit eclipse glasses that pose a threat to your health.

Get ready – just 10 days until the total solar eclipse! 😎
https://theconversation.com/how-safe-are-your-solar-eclipse-glasses-cheap-fakes-from-online-marketplaces-pose-a-threat-supply-chain-experts-say-222872

A mission to Mars will put unprecedented stress on the team of astronauts.

The trip will bring more psychological and interpersonal pressures from being away from home for multiple years and being confined with a small group of people for a long period of time.

More from a psychologist who’s been working with astronauts for decades:
https://theconversation.com/ive-been-studying-astronaut-psychology-since-apollo-a-long-voyage-to-mars-in-a-confined-space-could-raise-stress-levels-and-make-the-journey-more-challenging-221960
#space #mars #science

The National Rifle Association, its former longtime leader, and two other officers were found to have violated basic principles of running a nonprofit.

The jury decided that "asking the #NRA to pay for lavish personal trips, flights aboard private jets and helicopters, expensive clothes and hair styling and makeup for LaPierre’s wife – all of which came up during the trial – could not be considered fair to the organization."

Here's what happens next:
https://theconversation.com/nra-loses-new-york-corruption-trial-over-squandered-funds-retired-longtime-leader-wayne-lapierre-must-repay-millions-of-dollars-223685
#News #BreakingNews

Students are losing out as cities give billions in property tax breaks to businesses. Our team worked with 3 academic experts on an in-depth investigation into how ineffective tax breaks are taking much-needed cash from classrooms.

As one seventh grader put it: “If it wasn’t in the budget to fund playground equipment, how can it also be in the budget to give one of the most powerful corporations in the world a tax break?"

More: https://theconversation.com/students-lose-out-as-cities-and-states-give-billions-in-property-tax-breaks-to-businesses-draining-school-budgets-and-especially-hurting-the-poorest-students-222940

#News #economics #education

You’d call the police if a stranger in public did what many bullies at work get away with.

Two researchers who study workplace violence describe an all-too-common experience:
https://theconversation.com/about-a-third-of-employees-have-faced-bullying-at-work-heres-how-to-recognize-and-deal-with-it-220767

Billionaire media owners can’t save #journalism.

Philanthropists can’t save #journalism.

A strong, accessible media system that serves the public interest will ultimately require significant public funding.

https://theconversation.com/saving-the-news-media-means-moving-beyond-the-benevolence-of-billionaires-222677
#News #Newstodon (by @victorpickard and Rodney Benson)

Hugely profitable ExxonMobil has received $580 million in property tax breaks in Louisiana since 2000, much of which would otherwise have gone into public school budgets.

It’s part of a nationwide pattern that starves school budgets to deliver tax breaks to businesses.

Poorer neighborhoods pay the price of substandard schools.

Our investigative unit worked with 3 of the leading academic experts on this issue to uncover the full scope:

https://theconversation.com/students-lose-out-as-cities-and-states-give-billions-in-property-tax-breaks-to-businesses-draining-school-budgets-and-especially-hurting-the-poorest-students-222940
#News #USPolitics

#AI-enhanced #disinformation campaigns are particularly difficult to counter - and they're here, now.

A deepfaked "Joe Biden" robocalled voters in New Hampshire in an apparent vote suppression effort.

https://theconversation.com/fake-biden-robocall-to-new-hampshire-voters-highlights-how-easy-it-is-to-make-deepfakes-and-how-hard-it-is-to-defend-against-ai-generated-disinformation-221744
#News #BreakingNews #Politics

Discrimination alters the brain.

Racial discrimination increases the activity of brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex, involved in regulating emotions. The more brain energy a person uses to suppress, control or manage their feelings, the more energy they take away from the rest of the body.

Over time, and without prolonged periods of rest, relief and restoration, this can lead to other #health problems.

https://theconversation.com/racism-produces-subtle-brain-changes-that-lead-to-increased-disease-risk-in-black-populations-214053
@blackmastodon #blackmastodon #psychology

Just over 50 years after the first global anti-torture conference, there's still lots of torture in the world and lots of work to do in preventing it from happening in the first place.

What works and what doesn't – from a sociologist who has spent years studying the cause and prevention of torture:
https://theconversation.com/after-50-years-of-global-effort-to-abolish-torture-much-work-remains-219554
#HumanRights #News

US courts have not banned teaching about religion in the schools – just teaching about religion from a religious (usually Christian) perspective.

Many other countries face this same challenges and do a much better job of http://this.Here are some the approaches they take:
https://theconversation.com/finding-objective-ways-to-talk-about-religion-in-the-classroom-is-tough-but-the-cost-of-not-doing-so-is-clear-219783
#religion #atheism #lawfedi

Five of Uranus’s moons might be ocean worlds − and if there’s water, there might be life. But we won’t know until we go looking.

https://theconversation.com/unwrapping-uranus-and-its-icy-secrets-what-nasa-would-learn-from-a-mission-to-a-wild-world-215219

#space #science #astronomy

Virgin births aren’t just for Mary:

A female Asian water dragon at the Smithsonian National Zoo produced a daughter without the assistance of a male. And scientists have learned that spontaneous “parthenogenesis,” as it’s called, may be a heritable trait, meaning females can pass the ability down to their daughters.

https://theconversation.com/virgin-births-from-parthenogenesis-how-females-from-some-species-can-reproduce-without-males-150496

#science

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump can't appear on the state ballot, due to his role in the #Jan6 insurrection.

A constitutional law scholar goes through the #14thAmendment line-by-line to explain the principle behind the ban:
"In a democracy, people cannot substitute force, violence or intimidation for persuasion, coalition building and voting."

https://theconversation.com/why-14th-amendment-bars-trump-from-office-a-constitutional-law-scholar-explains-principle-behind-colorado-supreme-court-ruling-219763
#BreakingNews #News #USPolitics #Politics

Today @Flipboard announced plans for comprehensively integrating with the #Fediverse.

We're one of the first accounts to be bridged between there and here. You can follow @ConversationUS for a robotic feed of all of our articles, or here for a human curated feed.

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa

Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The remake, starring Timothée Chalamet, engages in the type of implicit racism that remains in the 1974 version of the novel (even after removing the more obvious racist elements). And, yet again, a white man plays #Wonka, continuing the tradition of a white-savior-type character.
https://theconversation.com/wonka-movie-holds-remnants-of-novels-racist-past-217069
#history #literature #movies #BlackMastodon @blackmaston

A dose of humility for doctors could greatly improve patient care.

The patient is part of the team, writes a social scientist who studies how clinicians collaborate.

Data shows when healthcare professionals work in a collaborative manner, patient satisfaction and outcomes improve.

https://theconversation.com/a-researchers-prescription-for-better-health-care-a-dose-of-humility-for-doctors-nurses-and-clinicians-210175
#health #healthcare #medmastodon

In the 1970s, Americans, whether they found Archie Bunker disagreeable or not, came together by the tens of millions to watch him each week.

It was something that united a divided country, and raised important topics for the public to think about.

That doesn’t happen these days.
https://theconversation.com/norman-lears-70s-tv-comedies-brought-people-together-to-confront-issues-in-a-way-gen-z-would-appreciate-219375
#TV #Television

Henry #Kissinger is dead at the age of 100.

Here's one Cambodian's verdict
"I’m a scholar of the political economy of Cambodia who, as a child, escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge regime with four siblings...
In both a professional and personal sense, I am aware of the near 50-year impact Kissinger’s policies during the Vietnam War have had on the country of my birth."

That impact was destruction, death and trauma.

https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353
@histodons #News