Tag: age
Billy Joel is back for an encore − but why did...
Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College
With the flip of a digital switch, Billy Joel fans have their first new...
Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography
Rebecca Senf, University of Arizona
What obligation does a portrait photographer have to their subject? Is it their duty...
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long...
Sharon DeWitte, University of South Carolina
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising...
Clare Mehta, Emmanuel College
If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it...
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
How old would you want to be in heaven?
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Brandeis University
Many religious faiths propose different versions of heaven as a location: There are walled gardens with streams, flowers, pleasing scents,...
How old is my pet in dog years or cat years?...
Jesse Grady, Mississippi State University
“Just how old do you think my dog is in dog years?” is a question I hear on a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
