How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
What is March Madness – and the nonprofit that manages the mayhem?
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The annual college basketball spectacle known as March Madness has arrived.
Millions of people will tune in to...
Why Moderna won’t share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid...
Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University
A quiet monthslong legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and...
Banksy and the tradition of destroying art
Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million...
Egon Schiele: the artist who went to jail for drawing The Radical Nude
By Anita Taylor, Bath Spa University
There are currently four major museum exhibitions around the world that explore and demonstrate the work of the Austrian...
This course teaches how to judge a book by its cover – and its...
Lynda Kachurek, University of Richmond
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
The chattering classes got the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ book wrong – and they’re getting the...
Lisa R. Pruitt, University of California, Davis
Film critics have had nary a good word to say about Netflix’s new movie “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Reviewers varyingly called...
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse
Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Stephen Aguilar, University of Southern California
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...
