By Robert Forrant, Professor of U.S. History and Labor Studies, UMass Lowell
On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special.
The miners waged a pitched battle with the National Guard for 10 days before President Woodrow Wilson ordered federal soldiers to intervene. An estimated 69 to 199 people…
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By Charles Bell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
Interviews with parents of students with disabilities show that children were often physically restrained and secluded at school for nonviolent offenses.
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By Andras Molnar, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Two new experiments show that most people do not even consider that a personal message could be AI-generated, even when they themselves use artificial intelligence to write.
To see how people judge someone based on their writing in the age of ChatGPT, my colleague Jiaqi…
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By Greg Eghigian, Professor of History, Penn State
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.
Is the science that we do today truth, likely to be a lie, or is it undetermined? – Nathaniel K., age 15, Hamilton, Ohio
For most students, science is something you study and something you have to learn.…
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By Lise Eliot, Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
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By Colin Diamond, Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Birmingham
Sir Adrian Fulford’s report into the July 2024 attack in Southport that killed three young girls does not pull any punches. He concluded that the UK’s safeguarding model had completely failed, with no agency taking lead responsibility. He referred to “an inappropriate merry-go-round” of state agencies, none of which took responsibility for the risks posed by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana.
There were red flags about Rudakubana for several years before the attack. This included him carrying knives to school with the stated intention to use them, attacking fellow pupils, telling police…
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By Nye Davies, Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University
Welsh Labour is in unfamiliar territory. While winning elections in Wales had become routine since 1922, the upcoming Senedd (Welsh parliament) election has thrown the party into uncharted waters, with the prospect of finishing a distant third.
So much is new about this election. The Senedd has been expanded…
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By Kathryn Spearman, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Penn State
Women are at highest risk of being hurt or killed after separating from a potentially violent partner, but interventions such as taking away the former partner’s firearms can protect them.
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By Esther Leah Achandi, Post Doctoral Fellow- Gender, International Livestock Research Institute
In some communities in Uganda, women aren’t supposed to work with pigs. This stems from restrictive social and gender norms, some of which are rooted in culture and religious beliefs.
Until recently, eating pork was associated with drunkards because the meat was typically served alongside home-brewed alcohol in local bars. That’s changing, as “pork joints” become popular everyday eating places. What’s more, pigs are unfairly thought of as dirty and therefore some people think the people who work with them must be dirty too. Women, in particular, according to prevailing social norms,…
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By Ivor Chipkin, Associate lecturer, University of Pretoria
Jelena Vidojević, Affiliate Researcher, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Protests have become instruments of elite competition. This includes local politicians using professional agitators to contest for control of resources.
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