The Day the Music Died and Luck Intervened

One of the most well-known of these tragedies was the airplane crash that killed rock and rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959.   As Don McLean referred to in his song American Pie, it was the “day the music died.”  But on that day, luck and chance were also front and center, writes Mark Rank.

Violence against women and girls research: Leveraging gains across disciplines

Greater integration and collaboration across disciplines has the potential to improve the validity, impact, and cohesiveness of the Violence against Women and Girls research field and contribute to evidence-based policies and practices, writes Lindsay Stark.

Opinion: How the loss of the American Dream fueled Trump’s return

In order to win national elections in the future, those running for office would be wise to fully appreciate the mainstream importance of the American Dream, and the importance of making that dream a reality for the millions who have been falling further behind in recent times, writes Mark Rank.

The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei

Recent experimental analyses of fleeting clusters of protons and neutrons put the very notion of the atomic nucleus in a new light, writes Lee G. Sobotka.
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