Could ‘balanced harvesting’ really feed the world and save the oceans?
Matt Burgess, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scientists and policymakers are simultaneously looking for new ways to feed the world and save the oceans. Global...
How should kids learn English: through Old MacDonald’s farm or Ali Baba’s farm?
Joan Kang Shin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Children love to sing songs. Think about the time when you were a child. What was your...
Can gene editing provide a solution to global hunger?
Utibe Effiong, University of Michigan and Ramadhani Noor, Harvard University
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people...
That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school...
Steven D Munger, Ph.D., University of Florida
Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned...
Philosophical toolkit in tow, scholar travels to conflict zones
Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University
Over the past few years, I’ve organized philosophy workshops around the world: with students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, Hasidic Jews...
Is student loan debt really a crisis?
Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University
Americans owed nearly US$1.2 trillion in student loan debt as of March 2015, more than three times the amount of...
Exploring our moon today to learn more about Earth’s youth billions of years ago
Augusto Carballido, Baylor University
The surface of the Earth preserves little or no information about its distant past. Constant tectonic activity has recycled Earth’s crust...
Primed for battle: helping plants fight off pathogens by enhancing their immune systems
Jeannette Rapicavoli, University of California, Riverside
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply....
