A brief history of AI: how we got here and where we are going
Adrian Hopgood, University of Portsmouth With the current buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), it would be easy to assume that it is a recent innovation. In fact, AI has been…
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.…
Quantum computers are like kaleidoscopes − why unusual metaphors help illustrate science and technology
Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get. Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy…
Fathers need to care for themselves as well as their kids – but often don’t
Derek M. Griffith, Georgetown University and Elizabeth C. Stewart, Vanderbilt University If you had to choose, which would you rather have: a healthy father or a good father? Studies suggest…
Outside Supreme Court justice’s home, a Revolution-era flag, now a call for Christian nationalism
Leslie Hahner, Baylor University and Scott J. Varda, Baylor University Homes owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito have flown flags linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and the…
Was Beethoven truly the greatest?
Philip Ewell, Hunter College On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a…
Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing
Melissa Pritchard, Arizona State University For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy. In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated…
I interviewed moms with 5 or more kids − here’s what I learned about the women who are quietly going against the grain
Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Catholic University of America Commentators link America’s declining birth rate to a number of factors: a lack of support for mothers in the workplace, expensive child care,…
Cannabis legalization has led to a boom in potent forms of the drug that present new hazards for adolescents
Ty Schepis, Texas State University Eventually, most adults reach a point where we realize we are out of touch with those much younger than us. Perhaps it is a pop…
Trump pushes the limits of every restriction he faces – including threatening judges and their families
Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst Donald Trump has done it again. And again. In a series of social media posts, the former president personally attacked the daughter of the…