By Nepali Times
A photo-based report captures Nepal’s devastating avalanche-floods through loss, survival, and absence, as families search for loved ones, homes, and certainty after torrents of mud transformed lives in moments.
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By Elena Moore, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Janet Ananias, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Work at the University of Namibia. Her research interests include ageing and older people, mental health, intergenerational care, and child welfare, University of Namibia
Your grandmother in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, is struggling to breathe. You call the public ambulance service, but you’re told it could take more than 24 hours to arrive, if it comes to your area at all. So you make the only call that might actually save her: the City of Windhoek’s ambulance service. It arrives quickly. It also comes with a bill of 800 Namibian dollars (about US$50).
If you can’t pay on the spot, the city doesn’t turn you away, it simply adds the charge to your municipal account alongside your water and electricity. That should be a relief. In practice, it becomes…
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By Asma Uddin, Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University
After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.
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By Ilan Stavans, Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival.
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By Kimberly Baker, Food Systems and Safety Program Team Director, Clemson University
From eggs and jalapenos to dog food, granola and pet turtles – it seems like you can catch a Salmonella infection from just about anything these days.
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By K. R. Prathyusha, Research Associate, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
You might naturally expect a wide, open path to be faster and easier to navigate than a narrow one, just as birds fly freely through the open sky, cars move quickly on empty roads, and a wide hallway seems easier when trying to exit a building.
However, many organisms do not have the option to move through open spaces. Whether burrowing through soil or swimming through water, they’re forced to maneuver through narrow gaps in tiny pores, rocks, roots, plants or other obstacles.
My team’s recent research on California blackworms suggests that, sometimes, such
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By Abigail Witmer, Assistant Clinical Professor of Optometry, The Ohio State University
Some animal species have their eyes positioned on their heads differently than how people do – and it comes with pluses and minuses for how they see.
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By Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the field: What are the ethical limits on research about often-dangerous groups?
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By John C. Besley, Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
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By Suzanne McLeod, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Kathryn Blackman, Adjunct Lecturer, Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Program, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A significant amount of Philadelphia public schools’ technology and other equipment goes missing each year due to poor inventory and tracking.
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