Suvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Imagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your large shopping cart to your car, you ask yourself: Did I really need all that...
Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder
On Nov. 11 each year, a curious holiday takes over China. What began among Nanjing University students in the 1990s as a tongue-in-cheek counter to Valentine’s Day has...
Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College
The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals.
Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and...
Joanna Woronkowicz, Indiana University
“Being an artist is not viewed as a real job.”
It’s a sentiment I’ve heard time and again, one that echoes across studios, rehearsal halls and kitchen...
Joshua Stillwagon, Babson College
President Donald Trump seems to want to have it both ways on the U.S. economy.
On the one hand, he recently said the economy is in its...
Julie Wolfe, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mental health challenges can affect anyone, regardless of background or circumstance, and they are becoming more common across the United States.
In 2022,...
Joshua Cowen, Michigan State University
A federal judge on Oct. 16, 2025, paused the Trump administration’s latest round of layoffs, which targeted more than 4,000 federal workers at a range of agencies, including 466...
Patrick Aguilar, Washington University in St. Louis
There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That may sound like a lot, but the country has struggled for decades to train enough...
