Researchers find pathological signs of Alzheimer’s in dolphins, whose brains are much like humans’
Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi, University of Florida and David Borchelt, University of Florida
A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the U.S. recently reported...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
The magazine that inspired Rolling Stone
Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University
The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine has arrived, and not without fanfare. Joe Hagan’s biography of co-founder Jann...
The emotional challenges of student veterans on campus
Ann Cheney, University of California, Riverside
This Veterans Day, Americans will honor the heroism and sacrifice of the nearly 22 million men and women who...
Does American culture shame too much – or not enough?
Peter Stearns, George Mason University
The word “shameless” is being tossed around an awful lot these days, which might speak to what many see as...
3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote part of Puerto...
Asa Oxner Myers, University of South Florida
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.
We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of...
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning
Patrick Burns, Colorado State University
Imagine a researcher working under deadline on a funding proposal for a new project. This is the day she’s dedicated...
How does an authoritarian regime celebrate a revolution?
Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross
“And what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little...
