Tag: New York City
Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...
‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a...
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, University of Michigan
I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full”...
Monkeypox vaccines: A virologist answers 6 questions about how they work,...
Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology
Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having...
Ending testing for New York City’s gifted program may be another...
Joni Lakin, University of Alabama
After years of relying on a single controversial test at age 4 for admission...
How a flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872...
Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a...
Homeless patients with COVID-19 often go back to life on the...
J. Robin Moon, City University of New York
In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
While people often light off fireworks...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
