Tag: history
Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland
Andrew L. Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and...
When did humans first learn to count?
Peter Schumer, Middlebury College
The history of math is murky, predating any written records. When did humans first grasp the basic concept of a number?...
I run ‘facial recognition’ on buildings to unlock architectural secrets
Peter Christensen, University of Rochester
About a decade ago, a modest update to Apple’s iPhoto software showed me a new way to study architectural history....
Superman at 80: How two high school friends concocted the original...
Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve University
Superman – the first, most famous American superhero – turns 80 this year.
The comics, toys, costumes and billion-dollar Hollywood...
Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?
Laurie Essig, Middlebury College
Americans love cosmetic surgery.
Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like...
The bottled water industry’s healthy origins
Alexandre Nobajas, Keele University
Huge outcry ensued from my recent article about how Brexit would hurt Britain’s bottled water industry. The outcry wasn’t to do...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
The magazine that inspired Rolling Stone
Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University
The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine has arrived, and not without fanfare. Joe Hagan’s biography of co-founder Jann...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
