The forgotten voices of race records: Pullman Porters, the Rev TT Rose, and the...
By Jerry Zolten, Pennsylvania State University
In the 1920s and 1930s, record sales of black artists were very lucrative for the music industry. As a...
Romania’s revolution: 25 years on
By Gabriela Marin Thornton, Texas A&M University
25 years after the beginning of the Romanian Revolution. I am standing in the University Plaza in...
Did we lose the War on Poverty?
By John Iceland, Pennsylvania State University
This year marks the 51st anniversary since Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty and made poverty reduction the...
Why most food labels are wrong about calories
By Richard Wrangham, Harvard University and Rachel Carmody, Harvard University
Looks so official and definitive….
FDA
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer...
The best weapon against terrorists: oblivion
By Marion Mueller, Jacobs University Bremen
In 2009, communications scholars Esra Özcan, Ognyan Seizov and I wrote an academic paper on the Danish Muhammad cartoon...
What can beagles teach us about Alzheimer’s disease?
By Elizabeth Head, University of Kentucky
Every 67 seconds someone in the United States is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and new estimates suggest that it...
As the Arctic melts, the US needs to pay attention
By David Titley, Pennsylvania State University
In a few short months the United States assumes Chair of the Arctic Council (AC). This is a...
Science says: eat with your kids
By Anne Fishel, Harvard Medical School
As a family therapist, I often have the impulse to tell families to go home and have dinner...
