Tag: life & news
The compound behind all those stories about red wine being good...
By Mohit Kumar Jolly, Rice University
If you’re a teetotaller, your friends have likely tried to convince you to taste red wine by swearing on...
This simple proposal could reduce risk taking at big banks
By Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford
It has long been a goal of investors and corporate governance experts to make sure our business leaders aren’t...
Outsider art can refashion how we think about mental illness
By Victoria Tischler, University of the Arts London
Organisations such as MIND work tirelessly to raise awareness of mental health problems and real progress has...
How the digital age has changed our approach to death and...
By Tony Walter, University of Bath
In the days and weeks leading up to the death of Leonard Nimoy, the actor and director most known...
A melting Arctic and weird weather: the plot thickens
By Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University
Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and this winter Mother Nature has served up a feast to chew on....
How – and why – Google is transforming the map
By Anthony Stefanidis, George Mason University; Andrew Crooks, George Mason University, and Arie Croitoru, George Mason University
Google has managed to map most of the...
Gordon Parks exhibit offers intimate glimpse into segregation-era life for African...
By Toni Pepe Dan, Boston University
In the spring of 1950, Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer for Life Magazine, returned to his hometown of...
Romania’s revolution: 25 years on
By Gabriela Marin Thornton, Texas A&M University
25 years after the beginning of the Romanian Revolution. I am standing in the University Plaza in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
