A melting Arctic and weird weather: the plot thickens
Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University
Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and this winter Mother Nature has served up a feast to chew on. Few...
Why rooftop solar is disruptive to utilities — and the grid
Seth Blumsack, Pennsylvania State University
A report earlier this month detailed how electric utilities were working through state regulators to stunt the spread of rooftop...
Can animals ever be artists?
Robert John Young, University of Salford
In my time I have seen some pretty strange things parading as art – I still vividly remember the...
It’s not enough to go vegetarian to fight climate change
Richard Eckard, University of Melbourne
Could our meat-loving Western diets push climate change over the edge? That was the message of a recent report from...
Farmers of the future will utilize drones, robots and GPS
Alex Thomasson, Texas A&M University
Today’s agriculture has transformed into a high-tech enterprise that most 20th-century farmers might barely recognize.
After all, it was only...
Feast then famine – how fasting might make our cells more resilient to stress
Douglas Bennion, University of Florida; Martin Wegman, University of Florida, and Michael Guo, University of Florida
Intermittent fasting (also called alternate day fasting) has become...
Girls on fire: political empowerment in young adult dystopia
Sarah Hentges, University of Maine at Augusta
Young Adult (YA) dystopia stories have never been more popular, and today’s release of Insurgent – the second...
Shades of segregated past in today’s campus troubles
Leslie M Harris, Emory University
Demands to rename Tillman Hall at Clemson University, the circulation of a video showing a racist chant at the University...
