Are parents morally obligated to forbid their kids from playing football?
Kathleen Bachynski, Columbia University
In March 2015, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland shocked football fans when he announced his decision to retire after just...
Stormwater innovations mean cities don’t just flush rainwater down the drain
Jennifer Drake, University of Toronto
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here.
More than...
Time for an end to parental tough love
Bernadette Saunders, Monash University and Bronwyn Naylor, Monash University
Picture this: you’re standing in a long, slow-moving queue. People around you are disgruntled and complaining....
Darling, I love you … from the bottom of my brain
George Paxinos, Neuroscience Research Australia
In William Shakespeare’s comedy Merchant of Venice, the play’s heroine Portia sings:
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart...
Feet on campus, heart at home: first-generation college students struggle with divided identities
Linda Banks-Santilli, Wheelock College
First-generation (FG) college students, or students whose parents have not earned a four-year degree, face unique psychological challenges.
Although perhaps supportive of...
Improved data set shows no global warming ‘hiatus’
Jay Lawrimore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National and international studies have shown that the Earth is warming, and with this warming, other changes are...
Africa has a long way to go to get more women into the sciences
John Butler-Adam, University of Pretoria
It’s still a man’s world in African science. The marginalisation of women in science is not unique, though, to the...
Two covers, two culture shifts
Renee Cramer, Drake University
Sometimes, a picture can transform a culture.
Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover, which exploded across the country this week, certainly elicits comparisons...
