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What is Perusall and why should teachers be excited about using it? Perusall is a social reading platform to help students get prepared for class. What that means is that in Perusall, class reading assignments are engaging collective activities, rather than solitary tasks. In real time, as they are reading, students can discuss the […]
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Why study animals and literature now? Animal narratives appear around the globe from time immemorial: in our earliest creation myths and the texts that underpin the world’s major religions, in literature from “talking beast” fables to novels with animal protagonists, in works of philosophy and science, in visual media from film to internet memes. Animal […]
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Prisoners in 17 states and several Canadian provinces are on strike in protest of prison labor conditions. Their demonstrations are compelling Americans to understand that some everyday foods are produced behind bars, for cents on the hour, in a system many call “modern slavery.” Prisoners in the U.S. harvest and process eggs, orange juice, ground […]
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Dr. Kees van Heeringen, author of The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior, discusses the enigma of suicide.
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This picture of the Andromeda Galaxy is not from a major observatory. It is not even an exceptional example of amateur work. It is a routine picture taken in my driveway in a medium-sized town with a telescope 6.5 cm (2.6 inches) in diameter. For a long time (about 1970-2000), amateur and professional astronomy were […]
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To explore the issues surrounding energy flow and consumption in the modern day, you must first understand the basic science of energy. Washington Taylor and Robert L. Jaffe are Professors of Physics at MIT, and have written a textbook on the topic.
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Giovanni Ruffini, author of Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity, reminds us that the Roman World was so much more than emperors, senators, and gladiators.
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Lead editor and an author of 'Preventing War and Promoting Peace', William H. Wiist, outlines his argument on why health professionals (including psychologists) need to make research and policy advocacy for federal budgets that empahsize domestic programs a priority in their work.
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