Tag: Middle Ages
Social Security may be failing well over a million people with...
Zachary Morris, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
The Research Brief is a short take about...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror...
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...
How St. Francis created the Nativity scene, with a miraculous event...
Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University
Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby...
How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
Lisa McClain, Boise State University
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI’s strict prohibition against artificial contraception, issued...
What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment
Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Suddenly, popular media is saturated with stories of powerful men outed...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
