‘How the Black Death made life better’

Arts & Sciences’ Christine Johnson, a historian of the Middle Ages, finds parallels between the post-pandemic labor shortages of today and the temporary shift in power to workers after the Black Death reduced Europe’s medieval population by a third. Then and now, she writes, the ruling classes seek a return to the previous status quo.

Scholar explores the maps in our brains

Rebecca Schwarzlose, a postdoctoral researcher in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, is the author of a book about brain organization titled “Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain — and How They Guide You.”
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