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  • Nikola Tesla: 5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Him

    Nikola Tesla: 5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Him0

    Nikola Tesla, the beloved inventor, engineer, and physicist, had his birthday just a couple weeks ago on July 10th, which makes him 160 years old! Tesla is revered around the world for his contributions to modern society, including the alternating current electricity system, which is used by most residential homes and commercial business spaces today.

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  • Is Playing Powerball More Rational than Voting for President?

    Is Playing Powerball More Rational than Voting for President?0

    Those who agree have scoffed at the hullabaloo over the Powerball of February this year, with its $1.6 billion jackpot and 1 in 292 million odds. After the drawing, such skeptics smirked at amusing news stories about lottery losers doubling down on their innumerate antics. There was Cinnamon Nicole, a Tennessee woman who had spent

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  • Harvard study: Women struggle with reconciliation after conflict more than men

    Harvard study: Women struggle with reconciliation after conflict more than men0

    Anyone else a bit surprised by this lead via the Harvard Gazette? It’s not exactly front-page news that when it comes to conflict, men and women usually behave very differently. The way they resolve those conflicts also tends to differ. While men can be aggressive and combative, a new study shows that, from the tennis

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  • Why watching people take selfies feels so awkward

    Why watching people take selfies feels so awkward0

    I’m having dinner with my flatmates when my friend Morgan takes a picture of the scene. Then she sits back down and does something strange: she cocks her head sideways, crosses her eyes, and aims the phone at herself. Snap. Whenever I see someone taking a selfie, I get an awkward feeling of seeing something

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  • What Star Wars can teach us about constitutional democracy

    What Star Wars can teach us about constitutional democracy0

    Cass Sunstein is one of America’s leading legal scholars. Both his work generally and his book about Star Wars specifically have attracted enormous attention from both academics and the general public. But one theme of his new book, The World According to Star Wars, highlights an area that is often neglected: the depiction of constitutional issues

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  • Prof: Today’s Students and Professors ‘Know Hardly Anything about Anything at All’

    Prof: Today’s Students and Professors ‘Know Hardly Anything about Anything at All’18

    Six months ago we shared a frightening observation from Patrick Deneen, a political science professor at Notre Dame who has also taught at Princeton and Georgetown. He described his students as “know-nothings… devoid of any substantial knowledge.” More recently, a respected author and English professor at Providence College in Rhode Island has echoed Deneen’s concerns.

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