Tag: Love
How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
Jackie Robinson will be remembered for his courage, athleticism, tenacity and sacrifice on Jan. 31, the centennial of his birth. By confronting...
Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?
James Kuzner, Brown University
For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first...
The lies we tell on dating apps to find love
David Markowitz, University of Oregon
Nearly one-fourth of young adults are looking for love through dating websites or apps.
This relatively new form of courtship...
What Plato can teach you about finding a soulmate
Firmin DeBrabander, Maryland Institute College of Art
In the beginning, humans were androgynous. So says Aristophanes in his fantastical account of the origins of love...
Why Tinder is so ‘evilly satisfying’
Jeanette Purvis, University of Hawaii
In America, 60 percent of digital media consumption now occurs on mobile or tablet devices instead of desktop computers.
As...
Why is it so tough for some to exorcise…
Why is it so tough for some to exorcise the ghosts of their romantic pasts?
Lauren Howe, Stanford University
A friend once grumbled that, given the...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
