By Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
A quarter of a century ago, Steven Spielberg released one of the most unusual films of his career: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a futuristic fairytale about a robot boy programmed to love.
Yet the movie’s origins lay not with Spielberg but another giant of cinema. For more than two decades, Stanley Kubrick had wrestled with the project, convinced it contained questions about technology, humanity and what it means…
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By Panka Bencsik, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, of Economics (secondary) and of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
George MacKerron, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
Richard Dickens, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
When a violent crime took place in a neighbourhood, it led to significant increases in the stress levels of local residents.
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By David Brydan, Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of International Relations, King's College London
Donald Trump has decided to put the dangers of communism at the heart of his campaign for the midterm elections in November.
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By Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster
A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
The U.S. Constitution gives states control of elections. An executive order by President Donald Trump aims to take away that control and limit mail-in voting. The Supreme Court will now weigh in.
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By Stephanie Brown, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
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By Pim Edelaar, Visiting Professor, Division of Biodiversity and Evolution, Lund University; Universidad Pablo de Olavide
To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.
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By Solomon Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Housing Research and Innovative Solutions, University of Denver
In much of the United States, developers spend more to build an affordable apartment for a low-income family than a market-rate one just down the street – sometimes far more. It is one of the central paradoxes of the nation’s housing crisis: The affordable homes that lower-income renters need most tend to be the costliest to build.
Colorado is an exception. In a recent study…
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By Xing Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow in Oceanography, Georgia Institute of Technology
Annalisa Bracco, Senior Research, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph Montoya, Professor of Ocean Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
You’ve been planning your dream beach vacation for months, only to arrive and find the shoreline covered in large piles of smelly, brown seaweed, with even more floating offshore. It’s disappointing, for sure – and increasingly common.
Since 2011, summer scenes like this have played out on beaches in South Florida and throughout the Caribbean.
The consequences…
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By Aminta Ossom, Lecturer on Law, Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard University; Harvard Kennedy School
A court ruling expands the options for corporate accountability efforts against oil companies in France, and it may have repercussions in the US and elsewhere.
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