Tag: life & news
From moral authority to risk management: How university presidents stopped speaking...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
Throughout the 20th century, college and university presidents spoke out on everything, from wars to...
Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...
Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia
Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...
Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve...
Stephanie Lessing, UMass Boston
Amid growing demands by Democrats to overhaul U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after federal immigration...
50 years ago, the Supreme Court broke campaign finance regulation
John J. Martin, Quinnipiac University
In 2024, spending on federal elections totaled almost US$15 billion in the United States....
Crowdfunded generosity isn’t taxable – but IRS regulations haven’t kept up...
Shelly Tygielski, Indiana University and Pamala Wiepking, Indiana University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Have you ever received some money through...
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to...
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo...
Individual donors provide only a small slice of university research funding...
Brian Herman, University of Minnesota
Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the...
I’m a philosopher who tries to see the best in others...
Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Understanding one another can be hard. There is a...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
