Tag: quick reads
Why Silicon Valley wants you to text and drive
Jack Barkenbus, Vanderbilt University
As self-driving cars come closer to being common on American roads, much of the rhetoric promoting them has to do with...
Learning by giving: How today’s students can become tomorrow’s philanthropists
Jodi Benenson, University of Nebraska Omaha; David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University Newark
If someone asked...
Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?
Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Pennsylvania State University
Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the...
Why Hurricane Harvey donors shouldn’t boycott the Red Cross
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
As with all natural disasters, the public and the business world have reacted with an outpouring of aid for...
Misleading statements on Russia meeting recall Clinton’s impeachment
Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University
According to a biographer of Donald Trump, “He’s been lying his whole life, almost reflexively.”
Now, President Trump may be...
Is Trump actually popular in Poland?
Brian Porter-Szücs, University of Michigan
As Donald Trump began speaking in Warsaw at noon on July 6, I was sitting in my apartment a few...
The Supreme Court takes on gerrymandering: 6 essential reads
Aviva Rutkin, The Conversation
Editor’s note: The following is roundup of archival stories.
On June 19, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear Gill...
As patients turn to medical crowdfunding, concerns emerge about privacy
Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University
Facebook recently announced that it is getting more involved in the personal crowdfunding business. Individual users will have the option...
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...
