How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood
Gail Heyman, University of California, San Diego
Racial bias can seem like an intractable problem. Psychologists and other social scientists have had difficulty finding effective...
Until youth soccer is fixed, US men’s national team is destined to fail
Rick Eckstein, Villanova University
David beating Goliath is very exciting – unless you’re a fan of Goliath.
The United States has 330 million people and a...
Gentrification? Bring it
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut
In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle...
For Native Americans, a river is more than a ‘person,’ it is also a...
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado asking...
Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an advocacy group...
The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction
Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colorado Denver
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a...
Blade Runner’s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University
Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad – like, really...
How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk
Henry J. Thompson, Colorado State University
Repeated studies have shown that physical inactivity, and the occurrence of obesity to which it is linked, increases the...
