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Study: Transmission of River Blindness May Be Reduced When Vegetation is Removed
The World Health Organization has set a goal to eliminate river blindness, a neglected tropical disease found mostly in African villages near fast-flowing rivers and streams, by...
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New Study Unravels the Complexity of Childhood Obesity
The World Health Organization has estimated more than 340 million children and adolescents ages 5-19 are overweight or obese, and the epidemic has been linked to more deaths...
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Episode 5: Moses
Moses serves as a model to the prophet Muhammad in the Qur’an, represents the tribe of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and prefigures Jesus in the New Testament. With no external,...
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Poverty in America: Is Progress Possible in our Polarized Times?
LEO’s Managing Director Heather Reynolds joined the American Enterprise Institute and other poverty experts for a panel discussion on “Poverty in America: Is Progress Possible...
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Episode 4: The Translation of Scripture
Robert Alter, translator of the Hebrew Bible, and David Bentley Hart, translator of the New Testament, are our guests in this episode, where they answer questions on staying...
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Episode 3: Jesus in the Qur’an
Jesus is a figure of great importance in the holy scripture of Islam, in the Qur’an. The portrait of Jesus in the Qur’an has many common features with that of the New...
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Fighting to Understand the Scientific Impact of Community
Playing in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro are 300 baboons that are the focus of one of the longest-running studies of wild primates. For more than 40 years, these Amboseli...
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Go Faster and Farther Than Ever Thought Possible
In 1882, an ambitious Notre Dame student named Albert Zahm built what might have been the first wind tunnel in the United States so that he could study the lift and drag of...
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Notre Dame Research explores the Environmental Change Initiative
At the University of Notre Dame, the Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI) brings together faculty from across all seven colleges and schools to grow globally significant,...
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