Tag: Television
After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matters into...
Shirley J. Lim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
The U.S. Mint will, over the next...
What made Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner so different from other sitcom...
Jessica Troilo, West Virginia University
Bob Saget, who died on Jan. 9, 2022, is probably best remembered for his...
Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both...
Brad Bushman, The Ohio State University and Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
In what appears to be a tragic...
How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are –...
David Beer, University of York
Netflix’s dystopian Korean drama Squid Game has become the streaming platform’s biggest-ever series launch,...
The science of product placements – and why some work better...
Beth L. Fossen, Indiana University
In “The Variant,” an episode from the Disney+ hit streaming show “Loki,” it’s tough...
In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right
Stephanie Herold, University of California, San Francisco and Gretchen Sisson, University of California, San Francisco
According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common...
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...
100 years ago, the first commercial radio broadcast announced the results...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your...
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract...
