For Native Americans, a river is more than a ‘person,’ it is also a...
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado asking...
Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an advocacy group...
The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction
Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colorado Denver
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a...
Blade Runner’s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University
Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad – like, really...
How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk
Henry J. Thompson, Colorado State University
Repeated studies have shown that physical inactivity, and the occurrence of obesity to which it is linked, increases the...
How ‘Germany’s Hugh Hefner’ created an entirely different sort of sex empire
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
Hugh Hefner’s death has reopened bitter debates about his place in history.
Many obituaries in the mainstream media have described him...
I’ve spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn’t just...
Carrie Pitzulo, Colorado State University
Over the nearly 70 years since Hugh Hefner, who died recently at the age of 91, laid out the first...
The most important ways parents can prepare children for school
Allyssa McCabe, University of Massachusetts Lowell
With school starting, parents wonder what they can do to help their children succeed. Almost everyone knows that...
