Who is most at risk for lung cancer?
Saiama Waqar, MD, professor of medicine
With one touch, they vanish. Meet the delicate, icy wonders called frost flowers
Alan Templeton, the Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Emeritus
Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most famous images
This small icon holds so much, and yet it can also paradoxically mean that there is nothing to see at all. Viewing it this way, an example of semiotic convergence becomes a tiny allegory for digital life writ large: a wilderness of possibilities, with so much just out of reach, writes Christopher Schaberg.
Are college students getting too many A’s?
Ian Bogost, the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor
Can Soccer Stadiums Revitalize American Cities?
Peter Boumgarden, the Koch Family Professor of Practice in Family Enterprise
What Influencers and Critics Aren’t Telling You About Antidepressants
Eric Lenze, MD, the Wallace & Lucille Renard Professor of Psychiatry
This church in America’s heartland is reaching young LGBTQ+ people
Ryan Burge, professor of practice in the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Promising clinical trials in Alzheimer’s prevention
Randall Bateman, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology
National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters
Data that documents the magnitude of need won’t fix the scarcity of local assistance, but it can help guide communities in allocating limited resources.
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city’s archives
Today’s officials have inherited and inadvertently continue a water system that was meant to exclude more than include, to punish more than teach, to restrict more than provide, writes Kristin Brig-Ortiz.
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