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+ did you see the super blood-red lunar eclipse? US Edition - Today's top story: Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1 – here's what forecasters are watching right now [View in browser]( US Edition | 30 May 2021 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Happy Sunday! With summer unofficially starting this weekend, I suspect many of you are reading this newsletter on your phone somewhere outside. Have fun! But don’t forget to check for ticks. It’s easy to pick up one – or many more than one – while visiting the woods, beach or your backyard. In a piece published in the spring of 2020, epidemiologist Durland Fish explains that the connection between ticks and Lyme disease wasn’t understood until the 1970s. It wasn’t until decades later that scientists began to pick out clues about how [the disease spread and became a modern epidemic](. The top five stories on our website this week are displayed below. Emily Costello Managing Editor Hurricanes Katia, Irma and Jose on Sept. 8, 2017. NOAA [Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1 – here’s what forecasters are watching right now]( Kristopher Karnauskas, University of Colorado Boulder To get a sense of how bad the 2021 hurricane season will be, keep an eye on the African monsoon, ocean temperatures and a possible late-blooming La Niña. A red blood moon is caused by sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommons [Supermoon! Red blood lunar eclipse! It’s all happening at once, but what does that mean?]( Shannon Schmoll, Michigan State University In the early morning of May 26, 2021, there will be a super blood-red lunar eclipse. The show will be spectacular and can all be explained by the orbits of the Earth and Moon. Making the series changed Barry Jenkins’ views on how his ancestors should be described and depicted. Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios [‘The Underground Railroad’ attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved]( William Nash, Middlebury Director Barry Jenkins' delicate dance with beauty and suffering seeks to create a fuller picture of the world Black Americans – then and now – inhabit. - [Narcissistic people aren’t just full of themselves – new research finds they’re more likely to be aggressive and violent]( Brad Bushman, The Ohio State University; Sophie Kjaervik, The Ohio State University A meta-analysis of 437 studies found that egomaniacs aren't just a bummer – they can be dangerous, too. - [Shape-shifting computer chip thwarts an army of hackers]( Todd Austin, University of Michigan; Lauren Biernacki, University of Michigan Most computer security focuses on software, but computer processors are vulnerable to hackers, too. An experimental secure processor changes its underlying structure before hackers can figure it out. You’re receiving this newsletter from [The Conversation](. Not interested anymore? [Unsubscribe](. 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451