Jamie Thomas, AB ’06, studies zombies, language, race and othering at Swarthmore College. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord...
Month: November 2017
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Closed altarpiece. Left to right: before, during, and after restoration. A newly expanded web application provides an...
Brazil’s jailhouse preachers may not explicitly condone violence against people of other faiths, but they’ve remained largely...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
A man taking stairs at Washington-Dulles International Airport in 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA By Natasha Bliss (left),...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit: Science Museum,...
Another day, another diet. Yuriy Maksymiv/Shutterstock By Dr. Melissa Wdowik / 11.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Food Science and...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Trumbull (1786) / Museum...
The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), by Theodore Gericault / The Louvre, Paris By Dolly Stolze /...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
Photo by Bettmann, Getty By Dr. Julian Baggini / 01.17.2017 Philosopher, Writer, Founding Editor The Philosophers’ Magazine...
The Willows Natural Burial Ground near the village of South Croxton / Photo by Mat Fascione, Creative...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...
Lithograph (1892) depicting artist’s vision of the Salem Witch Trials, by Joseph Baker. / Library of Congress...
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza/Flickr By Dr. Saskia K. Nagel and Dr. Peter B. Reiner / 10.04.2016...
The Illustrated London News (August 4, 1917) with highlights from the Hope Heirlooms sale including the Hope...
It’s hard to think pleasant thoughts—but a new study suggests a quick way to make it easier....
By Dr. Art Markman / 11.02.2017 Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing University of...
Is the California Dream still alive and well? Ivan Aleshin/shutterstock.com By Dr. William Deverell / 11.01.2017 Professor of...
Detail of a triumphal arch depicting Praetorian Guards. / Photo by Eric Huybrechts, The Louvre, Creative Commons By...
By R. David Dixon, Jr. / 10.27.2017 Master of Arts Student in Sociology Stanford University Are We...
At Radcliffe’s Science Symposium, “Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett said there is need...
Martin Luther is “a mirror for our contradictions and struggles, for all the ways our society and...
Map of all matter – most of which is invisible dark matter – between Earth and the...
Confucius sculpture, Nanjing, China. Kevinsmithnyc, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA By Dr. Alexus McLeod / 10.30.2017 Associate Professor of...
An illustrated depiction of a scene of Lincoln lying in state. Internet Archive Book Images By Dr. Brian...