From Home Births to Maternity Wards and Back Again
Once hospital deliveries became mainstream, mothers have had to make a choice: a home birth or go to the hospital?
The Cultural Expectations of Breastfeeding
Society constructs women’s bodies as sexual, but mothers’ bodies as asexual—a quandary that presents a dilemma for women who nurse in public.
There May Be a Ninth Planet (And It’s Not Pluto)
Caltech astronomer Michael Brown has proposed the existence of a ninth planet, the existence of which would explain the strange orbits of six KBOs.
Why Don’t Americans Eat Whale?
Whales have been used for everything but meat in this country. Why is that?
Representative Barbies
A weekly deep dive into the scholarship around a current news story. This week: Barbie.
Suggested Readings: Free trade, Peer Review, and Bloodletting
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
The Historic Achievement of the Pullman Porter’s Union
The achievements of the Pullman Porter's Union were a significant civil rights victory for both U.S. labor and the civil liberties of African-Americans.
Before KonMari and NotSorry, There Was the Samuel Smiles’ Guide to Self Help
Samuel Smiles' 1859 book, Self Help, offered a groundbreaking approach to self improvement.
2015 Was A Record Year for Vehicle Recalls
Some surprising lessons on how car companies' responses to product recalls affect consumer and investor perceptions.
Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning Was Both a Celebrity and a Superfan
As celebrity culture developed in nineteenth-century England, authors were at turns celebrated and celebrators of artists they admired.