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....
Can public service announcements take a bite out of Shark Week?
Suzannah Evans, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Jessica Gall Myrick, Indiana University, Bloomington
This week, millions of Americans will tune into...
Forecasting dead zones and toxic algae in US waterways: a bad year for Lake...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Over the past two decades, scientists have developed ways to predict how ecosystems will react to changing environmental conditions. Called...
Inequality can be addressed only if we start talking about the ‘working class’
Barry Eidlin, McGill University
In the 2016 presidential race, candidates from both major parties are looking for ways to address inequality.
Partly, they must do so...
