The greatest zombie lie ever told
By Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico
Eight hundred years ago, a monk named Thomas of Monmouth wrote a bogus account of the life...
People like us: how our brains view others
By Leslie Henderson, Dartmouth College
Race-related demonstrations, Title IX disputes, affirmative action court cases, same-sex marriage bans.
These issues made headlines in all spheres of the...
Not just potheads: a look at who supports legal marijuana
By Joseph Palamar, New York University Langone Medical Center
The United States is experiencing a drastic change in attitudes towards marijuana and marijuana policy.
Four...
Is your religion ready to meet ET?
By David A. Weintraub, Vanderbilt University
How will humankind react after astronomers hand over rock-solid scientific evidence for the existence of life beyond the Earth?...
How do we control an outbreak like Ebola if we haven’t been there before?
By Michael Tildesley, University of Nottingham; Katriona Shea, Pennsylvania State University, and Matthew Ferrari, Pennsylvania State University
As Arthur Conan Doyle said, “it is easy...
Minority voters tell their stories
By Paru R Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; David Cook Martín, Grinnell College, and Marcus Anthony Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles
Editor’s note: voter turnout...
The case for closing down women’s prisons
By Patricia O'Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago
It sounds like a radical idea. Stop incarcerating women, and close down women’s prisons. But in the...
Brownbagging it not always the healthy choice for kids’ school lunches
By Alisha Farris, Virginia Tech
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school...
