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Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership

Stefan Stern, City, University of London

The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.

Simchat Torah: A Jewish holiday of reading, renewal and resilience

Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.

COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion – here’s how to make sense of the results and what to do, according to 3 testing experts

Nathaniel Hafer, UMass Chan Medical School; Apurv Soni, UMass Chan Medical School; Yukari Manabe, Johns Hopkins University

Rapid tests can be an incredibly useful tool for early detection of COVID-19. Unfortunately, they sometimes leave people with more questions than answers.

Challenges to voters are growing before the midterms – and have a long history as a way of keeping down the Black vote

The 5,000-year history of writer’s block

Genetically engineered bacteria make living materials for self-repairing walls and cleaning up pollution

Bees face many challenges – and climate change is ratcheting up the pressure

How the costs of disasters like Hurricane Ian are calculated – and why it takes so long to add them up

Does tutoring work? An education economist examines the evidence on whether it’s effective

Here’s the first question of this week’s edition:

What was a major factor in many Indigenous communities in the U.S. losing their languages?

1. A. Boarding schools
2. B. Elders refusing to teach children
3. C. A philosophy of “leaving the past in the past”
4. D. The Pony Express

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