Forever crooked: how everyday language reflects negative attitudes about the physically disabled
Jessi Elana Aaron, University of Florida
Because there’s a quite lengthy list of offensive terms connected to disability, when we think of how disability is...
Health risks beneath the painted beauty in America’s nail salons
Thu Quach, Stanford University
The desire for beautiful nails has fueled an entire nail salon industry that’s growing rapidly, with storefronts cropping up on every...
Fluorescent proteins light up science by making the invisible visible
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College
When you look up at the blue sky, where are the stars that you see at night? They’re there but we...
Where were you when the mountain blew? Remembering the eruption of Mount St Helens
Brittany Brand, Boise State University
May 18, 1980. On that fateful day, Mt St Helens Volcano in Washington exploded violently after two months of intense...
Cancer survivors can have a fulfilling sex life – we need to talk about how
Catalina Lawsin, University of Sydney
Sex and cancer are words rarely uttered in the same sentence. But they should; after treatment ends, many cancer survivors...
Women compete to be thin for men – a pursuit exacerbated in modern times
Helen Driscoll, University of Sunderland
Plus Sized Wars, Channel 4’s exploration into the rise of the plus-sized fashion industry is part of an ongoing debate...
You’re not crazy: Recovery from trauma is different for everybody
Jeannie D DiClementi, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
The very public trials of the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the Colorado theater shooting suspect,...
Faster-than-light travel: are we there yet?
Robert Scherrer, Vanderbilt University
Long before the Empire struck back, before the United Federation of Planets federated, Isaac Asimov created Foundation, the epic tale of...
