New NFL helmet accessory reduces concussions − but players and fans may not be ready to embrace safety over swag

For the first time, players will be permitted to wear Guardian Caps over their helmets during regular season games.

Noah Cohan, Assistant Director of American Culture Studies, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis • conversation
Sept. 4, 2024 • ~7 min

How to make homes cooler without cranking up the air conditioning

Air con uses lots of energy – try these things first.

Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
July 20, 2023 • ~7 min

Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared -- new research

Rising temperatures threaten the UK, Switzerland and Norway with more uncomfortably hot days – new research.

Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
July 14, 2023 • ~6 min

Taylor Swift Ticket Trouble Could Drive Political Organizing
VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 27, 2022 • ~5 min

'Dracula Daily' reanimates the classic vampire novel for the age of memes and snark

A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.

Stanley Stepanic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia • conversation
May 20, 2022 • ~8 min

Concentration untangles environmental issues, solutions

Environmental Science and Public Policy takes multidisciplinary approach to complex existential threat.

Jill Radsken • harvard
Nov. 1, 2021 • ~12 min

John Glenn’s fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars – but sexism in the early space program thwarted their ambitions

John Glenn would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. Today's space program is a giant leap more inclusive than when he made his pioneering orbit of the Earth in 1962.

Roshanna P. Sylvester, Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
July 13, 2021 • ~12 min

When football clubs are less successful, fans are more loyal to each other

Some fans even said they would be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, giving their own lives to save other supporters of their team.

Martha Newson, Cognitive Anthropologist, University of Oxford • conversation
Jan. 21, 2021 • ~6 min

Keeping indoor air clean can reduce the chance of spreading coronavirus

Being indoors with other people is a recipe for spreading the coronavirus. But removing airborne particles through proper ventilation and air filtration can reduce some of that risk.

Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Nov. 20, 2020 • ~7 min

Robo-umps are coming to Major League Baseball, and the game will never be the same

Computerized systems that automatically determine whether a pitch is a ball or strike promise to make umpiring more accurate, but at what price?

Rayvon Fouché, Professor of American Studies, Purdue University • conversation
June 1, 2020 • ~9 min

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