Tag: life&news
Signs, props and light-up wristbands − the 2024 political conventions find...
Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Institution; Claire Jerry, Smithsonian Institution, and Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Smithsonian Institution
The cheering, clapping and speechifying...
When Paralympic athletes fake the extent of their disability
Jaime Schultz, Penn State
More than 4,000 athletes with physical, vision and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports...
Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new...
Jessica Eise, Indiana University
Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered...
Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of...
Amanda McMillan Lequieu, Drexel University
It was midday on a Saturday, and Simonetta led me from the open front...
Each Jewish couple’s story starts long before the wedding − and...
Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University
Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist activist, begins her book “The Jewish Wedding...
An unseen problem with the Electoral College – it tells bad...
Barry C. Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Over the past four years, Congress and state governments have worked hard to...
How US military planning has shifted away from fighting terrorism to...
Eric Rosenbach, Harvard Kennedy School
President Joe Biden’s recent approval of a major shift in U.S. nuclear weapons strategy...
A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne...
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Mariette DiChristina, Boston University
About one-third of the global...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
