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The rise of the autistic detective – why neurodivergent minds are at the heart of modern mysteries - Soohyun Cho, Michigan State University

1 day ago

Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet's most famous images -- Christopher Schaberg, Washington University in St. Louis

4 hours ago

You've just stolen a priceless artifact – what happens next? -- Leila Amineddoleh, New York University

16 days ago

'Only death can protect us': How the folk saint La Santa Muerte reflects violence in Mexico -- Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University

14 days ago

It's always been hard to make it as an artist in America – and it's becoming only harder -- Joanna Woronkowicz, Indiana University

1 day ago

Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life -- Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College

10 days ago

America's teachers are being priced out of their communities − these cities are building subsidized housing to lure them back -- Jeff Kruth, Miami University and Tammy Schwartz, Miami University

10 days ago

What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis? -- Alex Schwartz, The New School and Kirk McClure, University of Kansas

4 months ago

To spur the construction of affordable, resilient homes, the future is concrete -- Pablo Moyano Fernández, Washington University in St. Louis

4 months ago

Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing shortage -- Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4 months ago

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Daniela Sanjinés, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

3 months ago

Allen Iverson's 2001 Sixers embodied Philly's brash, gritty soul − and changed basketball culture forever -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

1 day ago

How the explosion of prop betting threatens the integrity of pro sports -- John Affleck, Penn State

14 days ago

Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic ball field was restored -- Susan H. Kamei, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

21 days ago

Wings, booze and heartbreak – what my research says about the hidden costs of sports fandom -- Aaron Mansfield, Merrimack College

1 month ago

4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University and Claire A. Simmers, St. Joseph's University

1 month ago

40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn't want to see -- Scott Malia, College of the Holy Cross

2 months ago

'Jaws' and the two musical notes that changed Hollywood forever -- Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

4 months ago

A Palestinian-Israeli film just won an Oscar − so why is it so hard to see? -- Drew Paul, University of Tennessee

8 months ago

What Amazon MGM's creative control over the James Bond film franchise means for the future of 007 -- Colin Burnett, Washington University in St. Louis

8 months ago

Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York

21 days ago

How Dorothea Tanning's 'Birthday' painting challenged male-dominated surrealism -- Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University

1 month ago

AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it's changing our relationship with art -- Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University

2 months ago

A straight face, with a wink – the subtle humor of deadpan photography -- Emilia Mickevicius, University of Arizona

2 months ago

The real reason conservatives are furious about Bad Bunny's forthcoming Super Bowl performance -- Ediberto Román, Florida International University and Ernesto Sagás, Colorado State University

29 days ago

How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s -- Edward Avery-Natale, Mercer County Community College

1 month ago

Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run' still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair -- Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University

2 months ago

The White Stripes join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame − their primal sound reflects Detroit's industrial roots -- Nathan Fleshner, University of Tennessee

8 days ago

How bachata rose from Dominican Republic's brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation -- Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Lehman College, CUNY

3 months ago

What's the difference between ghosts and demons? Books, folklore and history reflect society's supernatural beliefs -- Penelope Geng, Macalester College

17 days ago

Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers -- Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple University and SaraGrace Stefan, Temple University

1 month ago

Too many em dashes? Weird words like 'delves'? Spotting text written by ChatGPT is still more art than science -- Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis

3 months ago

AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose -- Naomi S. Baron, American University

3 months ago

Latin American literature contains warnings for American universities that yield to Trump -- Charlotte Rogers, University of Virginia

2 months ago

Watchdog journalism's future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre -- Alex Volonte, University of Florida

1 month ago

Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr -- Art Jipson, University of Dayton

1 month ago

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before -- Sage Meredith Goodwin, Purdue University and Oscar Winberg, University of Turku

1 month ago

Is there any hope for the internet? -- Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College

3 months ago

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart -- Julie Dobrow, Tufts University

28 days ago

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery -- Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine

25 days ago

The Erie Canal: How a 'big ditch' transformed America's economy, culture and even religion -- Matthew Smith, Miami University

25 days ago

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement -- Susanna Ashton, Clemson University and Mollie Barnes, University of South Carolina Beaufort

1 month ago

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America's most prolific censor -- Amy Werbel, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

1 month ago

'My gender is like an empty lot' − the people who reject man, woman and any other gender label -- Canton Winer, Northern Illinois University

14 days ago

Why are women's shoes so pointy? A fashion expert on impractical but stylish footwear -- Michael Watson, University of South Carolina

25 days ago

We've been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them -- Jody L. Herman, University of California, Los Angeles and Andrew Ryan Flores, American University

2 months ago

As Mexico's LGBTQ+ community battles for inclusion, two drag performers have become internet stars – with more than 2 million TikTok followers -- Francisco Tijerina, Washington University in St. Louis

3 months ago

Trump administration aims to slash funds that preserve the nation's rich architectural and cultural history -- Michael R. Allen, West Virginia University

4 months ago

Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice? -- Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Michigan State University

5 months ago

How mobsters' own words brought down Philly's mafia − a veteran crime reporter has the story behind the end of the 'Mob War' -- George Anastasia, Rowan University

25 days ago

How 'South Park' could help Democrats win back the young voters the party lost to Trump -- Nick Marx, Colorado State University

1 month ago

Jimmy Swaggart's rise and fall shaped the landscape of American televangelism -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

3 months ago

In pardoning reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, Trump taps into a sense of persecution felt by his conservative Christian base -- Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

5 months ago

Is a 'friend-apist' what we really want from therapy? -- David E. Tolchinsky, Indiana University

6 months ago

How Hershey's chocolate survived an attack from Mars − and adopted a business strategy alien to its founder -- John Haddad, Penn State

14 days ago

Would you eat a grasshopper? In Oaxaca, it's been a tasty tradition for thousands of years -- Jeffrey H. Cohen, The Ohio State University

1 month ago

Green gruel? Pea soup? What Westerners thought of matcha when they tried it for the first time -- Rebecca Corbett, University of Southern California

2 months ago

Filipino sailors dock in Mexico ... and help invent tequila? -- Stephen Acabado, University of California, Los Angeles

3 months ago

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them -- Cassie Powell, University of Richmond

10 days ago

I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light -- Jason Miller, North Carolina State University

5 months ago