Tag: lifeandnews
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...
Why most food labels are wrong about calories
By Richard Wrangham, Harvard University and Rachel Carmody, Harvard University
Looks so official and definitive….
FDA
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer...
Fossil collecting should be for everyone – not just academics
By Gareth Dyke, University of Southampton
Almost all natural history museums and recognised public collections of fossils have in the past relied on finds purchased...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
