Your smartphone can’t do this – yet. Peter Sobolev via Shutterstock By Peter Byrley / 06.04.2017 PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering University of California, Riverside A smartphone touchscreen is an impressive piece of technology. It displays information and responds to a user’s touch. But as many people know, it’s easy to break key elements of[…]
Zoot suit wearing pachucos detained by the police, ca. 1942 This June marks the 74th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of week-long race riots that swept Los Angeles in the summer of 1943. The spirit lives on today. By Angela Fichter / 06.09.2017 Dressed in a white shirt and pegtop trousers, the[…]
Photo by Lance Shields, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. S. Matthew Liao / 10.12.2016 Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics Director, Center for Bioethics New York University ‘What would you do if you saw a six-year-old alone in a public place?’ So begins a short video from UNICEF, which has received more than 2 million views[…]
Look into my eyes… Adolf Hitler photographed by his personal photographer practicing for public speaking in 1925. / Photo by Gamma/Getty By Dr. Peter Staudenmaier / 06.09.2017 Associate Professor of History Marquette University Maybe it started with Indiana Jones. When Raiders of the Lost Ark premiered in 1981, audiences were treated to the vivid spectacle[…]
Théodule Ribot Conversation Piece 1872. / Walters Art Museum By Dr. René Müri / 09.28.2016 Specialist in in Neurorehabilitation, Neuro-ophthalmology, and Cognition and Learning Perception and Eye Movement Laboratory University of Bern, Switzerland In every conversation, there is an unspoken code – a set of social rules that guides you. When to talk, when to stop talking, when[…]
A conscientious objector Thomas Moynihan being abused at Wanganui Detention Barracks New Zealand, 1918. / Photo Archives New Zealand/Flickr By Dr. Christopher Freiman / 09.30.2016 Assistant Professor of Philosophy College of William & Mary Imagine that one morning you discover a ring that grants you magic powers. With this ring on your finger, you can[…]
Fresco showing a sceptical looking young man with a scroll labelled “Plato”, from Pompeii / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Nicholas Tampio / 12.13.2016 Professor of Political Science Fordham University I have published widely on Islamic political thought, including an encyclopedia entry on the topic. Reading the Quran, Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), philosophy (falsafa) and Ibn Khaldun’s[…]