Internet Addiction?
In the new documentary “Web Junkie” by filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, viewers are introduced to Daxing ...
“Plastic Rock” Marks the Presence of Humans in the Fossil Record
Plastic in the ocean has created an entirely new kind of rock: plastiglomerate.
JSTORies: Jeanine Vélez Gavilán
Jeanine Vélez Gavilán discusses her career in botany, her passion for endangered plants, and how climate change challenges botanists today. Visit ...
Annals of Mathematics
Recognized as one of the most highly esteemed mathematical journals in the world, Annals of Mathematics has been in circulation since 1884
Does the Rise of the 1% Signal the Fall of Democracy?
Americans have been thinking more about economic haves and have-nots than we have in a long time.
Campus Hookup Culture: Myth vs. Reality
Hookup culture on American college campuses has become a predictable subject for magazine articles and op-eds. It might be time to shift the debate.
Is Our Soap Hurting Us?
Julia Scott, a writer and radio producer in San Francisco, was recently a test subject for a living ...
The Road to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century hit the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction ...
A Tobacco Plant that Could Cure Cancer?
Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.
Green Burial and the North-South Divide
Embalming practices were first introduced in the US during the Civil War to preserve bodies for transportation.