Plant of the Month: Hops
...left by Prohibition. Soon, growers residing in Oregon would allege that the region was the “Hop Center of the World,” spanning 34,000 acres by the 1930s. This industry, as Megan...
Cloud Seeding, Fake Fact-Checks, and Angela Davis at 78
...bird calls, edible wild plants, and herbal remedies. Don’t fear the Jorō spiders (CNN) by Megan Marples Yes, huge, brightly colored invasive arachnids may be spreading to new parts of...
Introducing “Archives Unbound”
...staff intervention. We began a large, speedy, cataloging project, led by my colleague Megan McNiff, to get many of the pamphlets written by and about African Americans identified and in...
The Return of the Hidden Hero
...all the king’s men and all the king’s horses are also slumbering with him. Scholar Megan L. Morris explores how Arthur was “recalled to life” in nineteenth-century England to serve...
Is Disgust Related to Morality?
...is not restricted to food taboos. Many other factors, as Megan Oaten and her colleagues explain in their article, “Disease avoidance as a functional basis for stigmatization,” can elicit disgust....
Airborne Viruses, Summer School, and Richard Wright
The medical mystery of airborne viruses (Wired) by Megan Molteni Why did it take so long for authorities to recognize that COVID-19 is airborne? The answer involves a sixty-year-old mistake...
Black Images and the Politics of Beauty
...message. Δ This idea of projecting the right image isn’t so different from what Ebony set out to do. As historian Megan E. Williams explains, Ebony‘s editors focused on “disseminating...
Dead Birds, Data Mining, and Dark Matter
...bigger crisis that also includes many species that we don’t monitor as closely. Data mining your medical records (Wired) by Megan Molteni The Mayo Clinic is working with Google on...
When Foster Care Meant Farm Labor
...Megan Birk writes, Americans depended on farmers to take care of kids in exchange for hard labor. In the years after the Civil War, state and charity welfare workers commonly...
Wealth Taxes, Embodied Words, and Ancient Comedy
...a really clever hustle. The population bust (Wired) by Megan Molteni For decades, demographers have warned that human population growth threatens the world’s resources and could lead to mass deprivation....