A daycare teacher plays with a group of children

Day Care: When School’s Snowed Out, Who Watches the Kids?

For a lot of dual-earner and single-parent families, there's no good solution for day care on a busy workday
Academy Award statue

And the Academy Award Goes to…

The American motion picture industry honors itself every year with the Academy Awards, now known officially as "The Oscars."
Daily News headline reads, "War on Terror"

Talk About Terrorism: Metaphors We Live and Die By

The four main metaphors of counter terrorism and their implications.
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What’s a Test Score Worth?

Are any standardized tests really useful?
Philip Levine

Two Conversations with Philip Levine

Two conversations with Philip Levine: from Ploughshares (1984) and The Kenyon Review (1999)
A chemist looks at a test tube in a medical lab

When It Comes to Science, Scientists and the Public Diverge

Scientists and the public understand science topics quite differently, according to a new poll.
A feral cat

The Environmental Danger of Outdoor Cats

Outdoor cats are an environmental disaster.
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The Stigma of Prefab Homes

The Wall Street Journal reports that million-dollar prefab homes are a growing trend in Europe
A book opened to the title page of Dr. Zhivago

Why Boris Pasternak Rejected His Nobel Prize

The noted Russian author was forced to choose between his homeland and international recognition of his poetry and fiction.
Dr. Alondra Nelson

Interview with Alondra Nelson: Race + Gender + Technology + Medicine

Alondra Nelson studies gender and black studies at the intersection of science and technology.