Tag: Global Perspectives
Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect –...
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong and María de la Macarena Iribarne González, University of Wollongong
Wearing green bandannas and dousing police in pink glitter,...
Before Trump eyed Greenland: Here’s what happened last time the US...
William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, University of Alaska Anchorage
Editor’s note: Reports that President Donald Trump has urged aides to look into buying Greenland make us...
Everything in Mecca gets 5 stars — and online reviews of...
Tom van Laer, University of Sydney and Elif Izberk-Bilgin, University of Michigan
For the millions of Muslims preparing to gather in Saudi Arabia on Aug....
Will they ever wake up? New study on consciousness after brain...
Katharina M. Busl, University of Florida and Carolina B. Maciel, University of Florida
Acute brain injury can result in significant damage and loss of consciousness,...
How the Dalai Lama is chosen and why China wants to...
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet, is turning 84 on July 6. With his advancing age,...
Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after...
What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains
Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...