Carolina Parakeet, 1825

Out with a Whimper

Some species go extinct obviously and fast, but just as often, the process can be hard to detect until it’s too late.
Drive in movie theater

The Enduring Drive-In Theater

Even as televisions spread across the American landscape, the drive-in movie theater grew in popularity in the years following World War II.
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From Gamification to Game-Based Learning

Use the JSTOR Daily Sleuth game to highlight the dangers of AI within academic research.
Village farm, Gujarat, India

Greening Deserts, Productive Dialogue, and Garbage

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Actor Keanu Reeves poses for a portrait, circa 1990.

How Keanu Reeves Radically Rescripts Race

Reeves’s career showcases his transnational mobility as well as a representational flexibility granted by the melding of races, ethnicities, and cultures.
A Geisha with an open fan

Geishas for Enlightened Motherhood

In the Meiji period, geisha embraced the nation’s modernizing project, helping to improve education for women and promoting a western-style domestic ideal.
American sculptor Alexander Calder in a studio surrounded by his work, c. 1955

Alexander Calder, Sculptor

Calder was known for both his delicately balanced kinetic sculptures and the massive steel abstractions he designed for public squares around the world.
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The History of Peer Review Is More Interesting Than You Think

The term “peer review” was coined in the 1970s, but the referee principle is usually assumed to be as old as the scientific enterprise itself. (It isn’t.)
A colorized photograph of Abraham Lincoln in February of 1865

Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas about the relationship of labor and capital mirrored Marx’s in some ways—albeit with a rural American flavor.

Brunei: A Tale of Soil and Oil

With an economy based almost exclusively on the oil industry, Brunei offers its citizens a high standard of living—but it comes with limitations.