Tag: Philadelphia
I study rat nests − here’s why rodents make great archivists
Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, Columbia University
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
That’s...
A culinary educator and local dining expert breaks down Michelin’s debut...
Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University
Working in restaurants is physically, mentally and emotionally taxing and often thankless work. So it...
A culinary educator and local dining expert breaks down Michelin’s debut...
Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University
Working in restaurants is physically, mentally and emotionally taxing and often thankless work. So it...
Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science
Amy Wrobleski, Penn State
Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How mobsters’ own words brought down Philly’s mafia − a veteran...
George Anastasia, Rowan University
The bloody mob war that is the focus of the new Netflix series “Mob War:...
How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University
When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...
New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...
Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania...
Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest...
Héctor M. Varela Rios, Villanova University
Picture this: Puerto Rican flags, referred to as “la monoestrellada” – the “one-starred”...
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...
