By Guest Contributor
“What our grandparents practised instinctively through prayer, song, and time spent in the natural world, neuroscience is now validating with brain scans and data.”
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By Kathrin Maurer, Professor, Department of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, University of Southern Denmark
It’s 2:44 am. An air siren cuts through the clear night sky over Kyiv and into my sleep. Heart pounding, I rise out of bed in my seventh-floor room of the Hotel Rus. Feeling like I’m on autopilot, I walk down the stairs to the bomb shelter. Chairs are lined up in orderly rows in this basement that was once a gym. But only one elderly man in jogging pants with a travel cushion around his neck sits here.
I quietly take a seat next to him and try to figure out the threat level on my newly installed Kyiv Air Alert App. The air threat persists, but tonight people seem to have decided that…
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By Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
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By Steven Lautzenheiser, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Tennessee
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
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By Monika Piotrowska, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown in a pig, as an alternative to waiting around for a human organ donor who might never come. For decades, this idea lived at the edge of science fiction. Now it’s…
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By B.B. Blaber, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Grinnell College
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
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By Seth T. Kannarr, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, University of Tennessee
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
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By Stylianos Syropoulos, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
David Markowitz, Associate Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
Kyle Fiore Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University
Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s a glimpse into how the moral vocabulary has evolved over several decades.
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By Shelly M. Wagers, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
Joan A. Reid, Professor of Criminology, University of South Florida
Florida’s new unified human trafficking database allows criminologists to determine the scope of the problem and find patterns of exploitation.
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By Nick Lehr, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
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