Jurors don’t know what the penalties for a guilty verdict will be. They should.
Dan Epps, Treiman Professor of Law
8 Effortless Self-Care Activities That Take Only 5 Minutes To Do
Jessica Gold, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry
Americans are dying because no hospital will take them
Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, associate professor of medicine
The ‘Whereas Hoops’ project
Noah Cohan in Arts & Sciences and John Early at the Sam Fox School are leading efforts to bring basketball hoops to Forest Park. Cohan writes about their project and the history of why basketball is conspicuously absent in a park with sporting facilities aplenty.
Why we should worry about Big Tech’s investment in a new brain technology
In addition to reaping the benefits of brain-computer interfaces, we need to ensure that we have the means to protect ourselves from corporations with every incentive to exploit this technology — and the inner workings of our own brains — for their financial gain, writes Rebecca Schwarzlose, research scientist in psychological & brain sciences in Arts & Sciences.
Criticism of animal farming in the west risks health of world’s poorest
In the developing world most people are not factory farming and livestock is essential to preventing poverty and malnutrition, says the Brown School’s Lora Iannotti.
Inazu was in the Pentagon on 9/11. He reflects on the day
John Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, was working in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when a plane crashed into the building. Here, he reflects on the day and what it means to him now.
Pluto should be our ninth planet
Paul Byrne, associate professor of earth & planetary sciences, argues our official definition of what is and isn’t a planet is in need of a long-overdue shake up.
Vaccines and COVID-19 infection generate protective antibodies, even against delta
The latest episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast focuses on the work of scientist Ali Ellebedy, who has published several papers about the immune response to vaccines and COVID-19 infection.
COVID-19 boosters are coming but who will get them and when?
Ali Ellebody, associate professor of pathology and immunology
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