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What can we learn from the way graduates are decorating their...

Sheila Bock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate. Per tradition, most...

Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky

Sean Weiss, City College of New York A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming. This is good news for architects. Indeed,...

Remembering America’s lost buildings

Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Carol Willis, Columbia University; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York,...

For restaurants looking to boost profits, it’s often about everything but...

Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College Staying one step ahead of the competition in the hypercompetitive restaurant industry requires more than simply tinkering with...

How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online...

Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania Before the internet, people interested in body modification – not just tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, but those drawn...

Can technology help fashion clean up its act?

Suzanne Mancini, Rhode Island School of Design Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy. The fashion industry is no...

2015, the year that was: arts and culture

Nick Lehr, The Conversation With the New Year approaching, we highlight the top arts and culture stories from 2015. Over the past year, there was no...

EXPLORING NATURE

Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes

Farah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw...