Can Virtual Reality Emerge as a Tool for Conservation?
New advances in technology are sparking efforts to use virtual reality to help people gain a deeper appreciation of environmental challenges.
Is There Really a Link between Mental Illness and Homelessness?
"Housing first” programs are helping cut homelessness in big ways. How significant is the link between mental illness and homelessness?
Bringing Back the Cougars
A controversial proposed solution to the Eastern United States' deer population problem.
Women’s Fight for Scientific Fieldwork
How did women scientists fit into the naturalists and botanist mix during their earliest days in the field?
Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?
Google is feeding its natural language AI thousands of romance novels in an effort to humanize its “conversational tone.” Will this give it "humanness?"
The Linguistics of Other People’s Pants (and Other Dishonorific Epithets)
The linguistics behind "dishonorifics." In this kind of naming construction, clearly honorifics are added in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek way.
A Novel Defense of the Internet
Novel reading was once regarded as an idle occupation, just as Internet use is now.
‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and the Retail Orgy in Film
On the film portrayals of women that equate consumption and love.
The Mysterious Ocean of Enceladus
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a secret. For some years, scientists have been convinced that there is a liquid ...
The Problem of School Discipline in the Twenties
Teachers, especially women, faced social pressure in both directions when it came to school discipline in the 1920s.