5 ways to develop children’s talents
Kenneth A. Kiewra, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Some people think talent is born. The often-told story of Mozart playing piano at 3 and composing at 5...
Weezer’s cover album: Is the rock band honoring or exploiting the originals?
Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College
If you’ve noticed the 1980s hit “Africa” playing on the radio more than usual, you likely weren’t listening to the...
Stem cell treatments for arthritic knees are unproven, expensive and potentially dangerous
Mark Miller, University of Virginia
Twelve patients who tried injections of stem cells were hospitalized with infections, according to a report in The New York...
People diagnosed with cancer often don’t embrace the term ‘survivor’
Leonard L. Berry, Texas A&M University ; Andrea Flynn, University of San Diego, and Scott Davis, University of Houston-Downtown
“Cancer survivor” has become a catch-all...
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they open fire, our...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and...
Did academia kill jazz?
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
Jazz seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance among movie directors – look no further than documentaries such...
Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the...
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but...
