Has the library outlived its usefulness in the age of Internet? You’d be surprised.
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. local governments are under extraordinary pressure to cut costs and eliminate...
From generations of infidelity and pain, Beyoncé makes ‘Lemonade’
Naeemah Clark, Elon University
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. But apparently a woman scorned is also the foundation of a creative tour...
Should we worry about arsenic in baby cereal and drinking water?
Stuart Shalat, Georgia State University
Even though most people don’t know much about chemicals in general or poisons in particular, virtually everyone knows that arsenic...
Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian
Andrew Smith, Drexel University
In case you’ve forgotten the section on the food web from high school biology, here’s a quick refresher.
Plants make up the...
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife
Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what...
Why we need a ‘moon shot’ to catalogue the Earth’s biodiversity
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
It’s unlikely that presidential candidates will ever utter the word “biodiversity” while...
How John Muir’s incessant study saved Yosemite
Michael Wurtz, University of the Pacific
Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his...
When Americans thought hair was a window into the soul
Sarah Gold McBride, University of California, Berkeley
In 2004, the North Korean government launched one of the oddest television campaigns in recent history: “Let’s trim...
