By Aaron Walayat, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
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By Elizabeth Canales, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
US shoppers are seeing higher fruit and vegetable prices thanks to trade tensions, extreme weather and geopolitics, just to name a few reasons.
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By Thomas Adam, Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
Bill Gates, Jensen Huang and many of today’s tech titans have two things in common with Gilded Age robber barons like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. After playing a role in propelling the U.S. economy to new heights, they established massive foundations. The foundations are usually designed…
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By Amanda Roome, Co-Director of the Tick-Borne Disease Center, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
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By Ronald S. Green, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Coastal Carolina University
Mindfulness can improve health and well-being, but it may not work for everyone. Buddhist teachings suggest that how it is practiced – and who guides it – matters.
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By Daniel Maxwell, Professor Emeritus of Food Security, Tufts University
Alex de Waal, Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Luka Kuol, Adjunct Professor of African Security Studies, University of Juba
Merry Fitzpatrick, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Peter Hailey, Visiting Fellow, Tufts University
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the lingering effects of the war in Iran highlight two separate and seemingly unrelated global hazards. But in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, these factors are combining with…
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By Donovan Fifield, Instructor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
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By Tariq Ashikhy, PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Business and Law, Bournemouth University
Hosting the Men’s Fifa World Cup is supposed to be one of the biggest soft power wins a country can score. When Germany hosted the tournament in 2006, it did so under the official slogan “a time to make friends”. It sought to transform its global reputation for being serious and reserved, presenting itself as a welcoming host instead.
Two decades later, the 2006 World Cup is still cited as one of…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Melatonin is known for helping us sleep, but a new study suggests it may also ease chronic muscle and joint pain.
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By Josh Bland, ESRC-DTP PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
Another tournament, another agonising chapter in English football’s long catalogue of glorious disappointments.
England were dumped out of the World Cup by Argentina following a capitulation that will echo through the annals of English footballing folklore. Having taken the lead just shy of the hour mark, this one really stung.
But the irony is that this late collapse has stitched another thread of continuity into the long tapestry of England’s footballing heritage.
As a researcher…
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