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Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity0
- Education
- September 2, 2016
Would academic political science benefit from more viewpoint diversity? Let’s start with the good news, which is that political science isn’t nearly the worst-off discipline on campus. This is not because its intellectual demographics are so great. Surveys, such as this one, of faculty members’ voter registration data suggest that poli sci does not contain nearly as
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Millennials Really Don’t Like People0
- Culture
- September 2, 2016
Bashing millennials is sort of a national pastime. So I thought I’d join in. It turns out millennials may have an aversion to interacting with people, which could be impacting their ability to find work and, er, mate. Via Salon: According to a survery by Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. — the Cincinnati-based company that operates Big Boy Restaurants
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5 Foods That Can Help Depression0
- Education
- September 2, 2016
Food is one of the most common things we turn to when life isn’t going our way. Something about eating delicious stuff makes the pain or anxiety we’re feeling a little less awful. But, if you’re one of the 350 million people who suffers from depression, you know all too well that it takes a lot more
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Who Said It: Philosopher or Pokemon?0
- Education
- September 1, 2016
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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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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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Israeli Filmmaker Disinvited from Syracuse Univ. Film Festival0
- 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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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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Anthropology is Far From Licking the Problem of Fossil Ages0
- 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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