Tag: Fear
Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You’re not alone
Patrick Barry, University of Michigan
Journalist Ira Glass, who hosts the NPR show “This American Life,” is not a...
Some people love to scare themselves in an already scary world...
Sarah Kollat, Penn State
Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses....
Anxiety can often be a drag on creativity, upending the trope...
Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no...
The creepy clown emerged from the crass and bawdy circuses of...
Madeline Steiner, University of South Carolina
The scary clown has become a horror staple.
Featuring Art...
Rainbow fentanyl – the newest Halloween scare
Joel Best, University of Delaware
Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk...
How to outsmart your COVID-19 fears and boost your mood in...
Laurel Mellin, University of California, San Francisco
After a year of toxic stress ignited by so much fear and uncertainty, now is a good time...
How lingering fears from the pandemic could change the way we...
Josh Woods, West Virginia University
Taiwan’s pro baseball league rebooted operations in mid-April with robot spectators filling the bleachers. A month later, Major League Baseball...
Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
Of all the sounds humans produce, nothing captures our attention quite like a good scream.
They’re a regular feature of horror...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
