Tuugi Chuluun, Loyola University Maryland Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid...
Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children...
Peter Watson, Carleton University Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book]...
Cannabis has been used by humans for thousands of years and is one of the most popular drugs today. With effects such as feelings of joy...
Erica Goldberg, University of Dayton The United States has become a nation divided over important issues in K-12 education, including which books students should be able...
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why...
As desirable vacation destinations go, war-torn Ukraine must surely rate low. But in the first month of Russia’s invasion, Airbnb bookings in Ukraine boomed, as people...
New report lists Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Grubhub worker victims, and the tally is likely even higher When the St. Louis police arrived on the...
Scott Ruoti, University of Tennessee Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data...
“If everyone could see what I see coming,” said one scientist, “society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few...
Evangeline Mantzioris, University of South Australia Despite most of us knowing we should cut down on salt, Australians consume on average almost twice the recommended daily...
Alex Fitch, University of Brighton Two new Marvel heroes have been brought to the big and small screens that may be quite new to many people....
As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when...
In face of the “escalating climate emergency,” the advocacy group Scientist Rebellion warns that IPCC summary to global policymakers remains “alarmingly reserved, docile, and conservative.” Amid...
Sam Wenger, University of Sydney and Deanna D’Alessandro, University of Sydney Large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods is now “unavoidable” if the world is...
Pema Düddul, University of Southern Queensland Since it was first published in English in 1927, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has proved to be the...
“Oil and gas companies are feeding off humanitarian disaster and consumer suffering in order to reward Wall Street,” said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth....
Below we’ve embedded the new video, along with the text of the video. Your life could get a lot more dangerous. Republican appointees on the Supreme...
Alan Jenn, University of California, Davis Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking...
Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence branch...
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to vote April 4, 2022, on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It kicks off a...