CrossFit: elite fitness or pointless pain?
By Sarah Hentges, University of Maine at Augusta
It’s a known fact that exercise is addictive. But CrossFitters – those who take part in CrossFit’s...
Is your kid having fun reading? Here are some tips
Michiko Hikida, University of Texas at Austin and Jennifer Keys Adair, University of Texas at Austin
Not being able to read is a problem but...
Why are some Americans changing their names?
Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University
In 2008, Newsweek published an article on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama titled “From Barry to Barack.”
The story explained how Obama’s...
Why do people risk their lives – or….
Why do people risk their lives – or the lives of others – for the perfect selfie?
Michael Weigold, University of Florida
2016 hasn’t been a...
Even before Hiroshima, people knew the atomic bomb
Matt Lavine
, Mississippi State University
Milton Rothmar, an American army corporal stationed in Italy, got the news about the Hiroshima bombing from the Armed forces...
I studied buttons for 7 years and learned these 5 lessons about how and...
Rachel Plotnick, Indiana University
All day every day, throughout the United States, people push buttons – on coffee makers, TV remote controls and even social...
Making poetry their own: The evolution of poetry education
The American poet William Stafford was often asked by friends, readers, students and colleagues: When did you become a poet? The response...
How small birds evolved from giant meat eating dinosaurs
By Mike Lee and Gareth Dyke, University of Southampton
Spectacular transitional fossils, many from northern China, provide overwhelming evidence that dinosaurs evolved into birds and...
