Colorado curriculum kerfuffle showed activism can beat vested interests
By Mark Paige, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Students in Jefferson County, Colorado, popularly known as JeffCo, have learned an important civics lesson about their power...
Bradlee was a bold editor who helped us understand the world
By John Jewell, Cardiff University
Ben Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post, who has died at the age of 93 was a crusading...
Awash in pink, but breast cancer awareness isn’t a cure
By Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan
This month, we are inundated with pink. By wearing pink ribbons, purchasing pink products, and participating in walks and...
How to satisfy our appetite for meat without ruining the planet
By Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College
Foundation essay: This article is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the US. Our foundation...
Americans torn between relief and confusion by Scottish No
By Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, University of Maryland
After a flurry of interest in the Scottish referendum, with the vote featuring on the front page of...
Happy people work harder (especially if they get chocolate)
By Will de Freitas, The Conversation
Economists at the University of Warwick have found happiness increases productivity by around 12%.
Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel...
Crowdsourcing competitions often hijacked: study
By Charis Palmer, The Conversation
Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to...
We need to teach children how to think, not what to think
By Gary Keogh, University of Manchester
In its ideal form, education should be socially progressive. We teach the next generation of scientists, engineers and medical...
