Perspectives

In this episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast, learn more about one of the leading problems associated with long COVID-19. Researchers at the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System are learning how and why a respiratory virus is affecting the brain, particularly causing a condition known as brain fog.

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, in Arts & Sciences, studies gender and racial inequality in the workplace and writes that while the United States workforce has increased in diversity, employers’ policies and hiring practices aren’t making enough progress.

The next time you hear a friend assert that fitness is their new religion, know that it might not be just hyperbole. Rather, it reflects how religious meanings attached to the body have endured, transformed – and are now available for purchase at the nearest fitness studio, writes Cody Musselman.

Ian Bogost, the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor, takes part in an episode of the New Republic podcast “The Politics of Everything” to discuss the tumult at Twitter and why we should welcome the end of social media.

Talia Dan-Cohen and Carl Craver discuss the differences between astrology and astronomy for a piece in The Conversation’s Curious Kids section.

Flora Cassen, in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies Arts & Sciences, writes an article about a family member who survived the Holocaust by being a “kapo,” one of many who worked for the Nazis while imprisoned in the Polish concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

For nearly 20 years, Einstein’s quantum theory of light was disputed on the basis that light was a wave. In 1922 Compton’s x-ray scattering experiment proved light’s dual nature, writes Erik Henriksen.

Lacy Murphy, a graduate student fellow in the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, explores why Americans know so little about Algeria and why the country may mistrust Western nations. But, Murphy said, Algeria plays an important role in global politics and is among Africa’s most advanced in counterterrorism and global energy.

In this episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast, learn more about the Living Well Center, a site for orthopedic issues that focuses on health care rather than sick care.

Tazeen M. Ali, an assistant professor at the university’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, is the author of “The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam,” about a women-led congregation in Los Angeles. Here, read an excerpt from that work.