Tag: history
1,000-year-old stalagmites from a cave in India show the monsoon isn’t...
Gayatri Kathayat, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Ashish Sinha, California State University, Dominguez Hills
In a remote cave in northeast...
Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that...
Paula Vene Smith, Grinnell College
The first time I taught a college course called “The London Diary” for young...
How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from...
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Oklahoma State University
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing...
Whether up in smoke or down the toilet, missing presidential records...
Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
We may never get to the...
Tonga eruption was so intense, it caused the atmosphere to ring...
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption reached an explosive crescendo on Jan. 15, 2022. Its...
Who invented video games?
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Curious Kids is a series for children of...
Computer Space launched the video game industry 50 years ago –...
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The...
Ancient shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded...
Sora Kim, University of California, Merced
Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off...