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Sexting a sign of a Committed Relationship?0
- Culture
- September 1, 2016
Why do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts? For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want – or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed
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Don’t Like Your College Roommate? Sue Her!0
- Culture
- September 1, 2016
Heading to college can be quite a shock; it’s challenging to transition from the comforts and privacy of home to the sheer human density of the college dormitory experience. For most everyone, it’s the least privacy they’ll experience in their entire lives; dozens of eighteen- and nineteen-year-old men and women jammed into cinderblock buildings on
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Should We Stop Calling Liberals ‘Liberal’?0
- Economics
- September 1, 2016
When Americans use the term “liberal” today, they are usually describing a person or group that holds political or moral views associated with the Democratic Party or the “Left.” But it was not always so. In fact, this contemporary usage is the result of an etymological evolution—or devolution, depending on whom you ask. As a
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Israeli Filmmaker Disinvited from Syracuse Univ. Film Festival 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2016
Shimon Dotan, a Romanian born award-winning filmmaker from Israel, was disinvited from a film conference at Syracuse University. Dotan reportedly had received what he thought was an invitation to screen his latest film, The Settlers, which deals with Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Then the filmmaker was told by Professor M. Gail Hamner, a
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Anthropology is Far From Licking the Problem of Fossil Ages 0
- History
- September 1, 2016
Last September, scientists announced the discovery of a never-before-seen human relative (hominin), now known as Homo naledi, deep in a South African cave. The site yielded more than 1,500 bone fragments, an astonishing number in a field that often celebrates the identification of a single tooth. That rich fossil cache revealed much about the creatures,
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Who Said It: Philosopher or Pokemon?0
- Education
- September 1, 2016
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