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Live on Lakeside: Weight-loss supplements WKYC: Nutrition’s Mary Beth Kavanagh discusses the consequences of diet pills, from fat-burning pills to laxatives. She sites the potentially acute dangers of taking such substances, many of which have yet to be properly researched....

Live on Lakeside: Sports enhancing drugs debate WKYC: School of Law professor Maxwell Mehlman and head football coach Greg Debeljak weighed in on the debate surrounding performance enhancing substances in sports, examining the pressures that face the athletes as well as the shaky distinctions betwe...

The future of MOOCs Campus Technology: Lev Gonick, chief information officer and vice president of Information Technology Services, discussed how he would like to see the phenomenon of MOOCs—or massive open online courses—evolve....

Astronaut on ice: A search for Antarctic meteorites Space.com: Associate professor of geological sciences Ralph Harvey leads the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, an operation that heads to a remote region of Antarctica to search for conspicuous dark rocks that might be extraterrestrial....

Planning end of life care ideastream: Most people do not know what type of care a family member might want when confronted with an end-of-life crisis, and the process of discussing it can be emotionally difficult. Michael Aulisio, associate professor of bioethics, weighed in on tough questions f...

Knight Foundation grant helping build a community at Cascade Village Akron Beacon Journal: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences researchers are collecting data on a mixed-income housing development in Akron. Rob Fischer, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, said...

Cuyahoga County prosecutors implicate a fourth lawyer in a scheme to bribe sexual assault victim The Plain Dealer: A Cleveland attorney persuaded a fellow lawyer to deliver a bribe to a sexual assault victim, according to recent court filings. Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, explai...

After the 'fiscal cliff,' businesses say some uncertainty remains NPR: The fiscal cliff deal may have alleviated some business concerns, but what’s most important to small businesses is what’s happening in their sector, said Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies...

Nearby dwarf galaxy and possible protogalaxy found Science Daily: Astronomers have found a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf that was caught before it formed any stars. "Compared to what is seen in the Hubble Space Telescope image, the galaxy's disk is much larger and we can see v...

Gone and mostly forgotten ideastream: On The Sound of Ideas, Jared Bendis, creative new media officer, discussed outdated technology—or those items that are about to slip into obsolescence....