By Louise Starkey, Professor of Education, University of Tasmania
David Moltow, Lecturer in Education Philosophy and Ethics, University of Tasmania
A rural district in New York state has made global headlines for plans to introduce a humanoid robot into high school classrooms as a teaching assistant.
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By Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Celebrity probate battles deal with the same legal issues that courts handle every day for many families that are not in the news.
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By Karen Barrett, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco
Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center’s “Science of Happiness” podcast, host Shuka Kalantari talked to Karen Barrett about what happens in the brain when people improvise music. Barrett is an assistant professor in the Institute for Health…
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By Katrine L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.
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By Samantha Adams, Ph.D. in English and Women's & Gender Studies, University of Michigan
When Patterson was at Temple University, she insisted on swimming when her white teammates swam and not being limited to the hour when the pool was available to Black swimmers.
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By Erik P. Bucy, Regents Professor of Strategic Communication, Texas Tech University
Milad Jalalian Ebrahimi, Researcher, Texas Tech University
From the BBC’s implementation of AI guardrails to Reuters’ embrace of AI tools to disseminate breaking financial news, newsrooms’ missions and values are shaping their technological futures.
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By Pawan Jain, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Michigan Flint
Finding good financial advice can be stressful – and expensive. That’s one reason why chatbots have become an increasingly popular and free alternative.
But using artificial intelligence to answer your pressing money questions also carries hidden dangers. I’m a finance professor who has been closely watching the spread of AI into personal finance, and I recently warned that AI…
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By Jayash Paudel, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.
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By Jodyn Platt, Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School Associate; Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
David Kao, Associate Professor, Medicine-Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
AI tools are already being used in hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices. Who is making treatment decisions, and who is responsible if an AI gets it wrong? To address these questions, Science and Technology editor Eric Smalley hosted a webinar with panelists Dr. Jodyn Platt, an Associate Professor Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, and Dr. David…
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By Dominic Davies, Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
Adam Baron, Novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Kingston University
Colleen Ballard, Teacher in English Literature, University of Limerick
Debra Kelly, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Cultural Historian, University of Westminster
Jade King, Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing, Lincoln University
Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
Matthew Leggatt, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Winchester
Michael Bradshaw, Dean of Faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Sarah Olive, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Aston University
Tory Young, Associate Professor in Department of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
A novel doesn’t need to be a hefty tome to change your life. Forget War and Peace (1,200 pages) or Les Misérables (1,400 pages); these expert recommendations are under 150 pages – short enough to tear through over a weekend.
1. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (2011)
In 2012, Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams did not win the Pulitzer prize. Though shortlisted as one of three finalists, the committee “withheld” the fiction award for the first time in 35 years, because none of the works received a majority…
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