Tag: history
8 billion humans: How population growth and climate change are connected...
Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University
At first glance, the connections between the world’s growing population and climate change seem...
Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents –...
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
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...
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
